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The 2013 update of the OECD's database on product market regulation: Policy insights for OECD and non-OECD countries

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  • Isabell Koske

    (OECD)

  • Isabelle Wanner
  • Rosamaria Bitetti

    (LUISS Guido Carli)

  • Omar Barbiero

    (Bocconi University)

Abstract

This paper investigates patterns in product market regulation across 34 OECD and 21 non-OECD countries, using an updated and revised version of the OECD’s indicators of product market regulation (PMR). The analysis shows that liberalisation of product markets has further slowed over the past five years. However, even though there was little progress on average in the OECD over this period, a number of OECD countries implemented sizable reforms, often in an attempt to boost economic growth in wake of the economic crisis. On average across the OECD, countries have made particular progress in abolishing price controls or improving their design, streamlining administrative procedures for start-ups, simplifying rules and procedures or improving access to information about regulations. Room for further improvements is the largest in the areas of public ownership and the governance of state-owned enterprises as well as with respect to barriers to competition in network and services sectors. Mise à jour 2013 des indicateurs de réglementation des marchés de produits de l'OCDE : Aperçus des systèmes réglementaires dans les pays de l'OCDE et certains pays non membres Cette étude examine la réglementation du marché des produits à travers 34 pays de l'OCDE et 21 pays non membres de l'OCDE, en utilisant une version mise à jour et révisée des indicateurs de réglementation des marchés de produits (RMP) de l'OCDE. L'analyse montre que la libéralisation des marchés de produits a continué de se ralentir au cours des cinq dernières années. Cependant, même s'il y a eu peu de progrès en moyenne dans les pays de l'OCDE au cours de cette période, un certain nombre de ces pays ont mis en place des réformes non-négligeables, souvent dans le but d’augmenter la croissance économique à la suite de la crise économique. En moyenne dans l'OCDE, les pays ont fait des progrès en particulier concernant la suppression des mesures de contrôle des prix ou l'amélioration de leur conception, la simplification des procédures administratives concernant la création d’entreprises, la simplification des règles et des procédures ou l'amélioration de l'accès à l'information relative à la réglermentation. Les possibilités d’amélioration supplémentaire les plus importantes sont dans les domaines de la présence capitalistique de l’État et la gouvernance des entreprises publiques ainsi que dans les obstacles à la concurrence dans les secteurs de réseau et des services.

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  • Isabell Koske & Isabelle Wanner & Rosamaria Bitetti & Omar Barbiero, 2015. "The 2013 update of the OECD's database on product market regulation: Policy insights for OECD and non-OECD countries," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1200, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:ecoaaa:1200-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5js3f5d3n2vl-en
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    Keywords

    product market regulation; réglementation des marchés de produits;

    JEL classification:

    • K2 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law
    • L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior

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