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3-July-2021

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Competition Agency Leaders Executive Programme (CALEP)

The Competition Agency Leaders Executive Programme (CALEP) is a yearly executive training programme, co-organised by the OECD and CRESSE and taught by eminent competition professors, lawyers, economists and members of the OECD secretariat.

22-March-2021

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OECD Global Anti-Corruption and Integrity Forum

Save the date: The virtual 2021 OECD Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum will take place in the week of 22 March 2021 under the theme of “Leading through the Crisis: Integrity and Anti-Corruption for a Resilient Recovery".

25-February-2021

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Gender inclusive competition policy

The fight for gender equality is one of the defining challenges of our age. While progress has been made in many areas, the relationship between gender and competition policy remains largely unexplored. Gender inclusive competition policy is a project with the support of the Canadian government that aims to develop guidance for competition agencies in this area.

24-February-2021

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OECD Competition Open Day

24 February 2021 - Discussions at the third edition of the Competition Open Day will focus on the competitive effects of killer acquisitions, sustainability, competition and the economic recovery and economics of digital ecosystems.

24-February-2021

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OECD Competition Trends

24 February 2021 - The second edition of this annual publication presents unique insights into global competition trends based on data from more than 50 OECD and non-OECD jurisdictions. In addition to analysing different regimes and their resources, the report describes enforcement trends relating to cartels, abuse of dominance cases and merger reviews. A special section focuses on merger control.

15-February-2021

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Fostering Competition in ASEAN

The OECD is working with ASEAN countries to foster the development of competition policy and more pro-competitive regulation. Reviews of regulatory constraints on competition in all ten ASEAN member countries will identify regulations that hinder the efficient functioning of markets and create an unlevel playing field for business.

3-February-2021

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The Digital Transformation of SMEs

Despite potentially tremendous benefits, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) lag in the digital transformation. Emerging technologies, as diverse as they are, offer a range of applications for them to improve performance and overcome the size-related limitations they face in doing business. However, SMEs must be better prepared, and stakes are high. SMEs make the most of the industrial fabric in many countries and regions, they create jobs (most jobs sometimes) and are the cement of inclusive and sustainable societies. The SME digital gap has increased inequalities among people, places and firms, and there are concerns that the benefits of the digital transformation could accrue to early adopters, further broadening these inequalities. Enabling SME digitalisation has become a top policy priority in OECD countries and beyond. The report looks at recent trends in SME digital uptake, including in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. It focuses on issues related to digital security, online platforms, blockchain ecosystems, and artificial intelligence. The report identifies opportunities, risks of not going digital, and barriers to adoption. It looks to concrete policy action taken worldwide to speed the SME transformation and raises a series of considerations to advance the SME digital policy agenda.

3-February-2021

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State-owned enterprises in the shipbuilding sector

This paper uses firm-level data analysis to assess the extent, and the economic and policy implications of state-owned enterprises (hereafter SOEs) in the shipbuilding sector. Even though the available data appears to be limited in certain respects, one of the paper’s key findings demonstrates that SOEs occupy a significant share in global ship completions, but are likely to operate with lower profitability rates and to be more highly leveraged than private enterprises. This report also presents a number of guiding principles to assess SOEs’ behaviour and their potential impact on the shipbuilding market, such as good corporate governance frameworks and the principle of competitive neutrality. To provide a concrete comparative analysis of SOEs and their private counterparts, the paper examines a case-study comparing the Chinese central state-owned enterprise CSIC and its private counterpart Yangzijiang Shipbuilding.

21-January-2021

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OECD/ICN Report on International Co-operation in Competition Enforcement 2021

This report presents the key findings from a survey on international enforcement co-operation jointly carried out by the OECD and the International Competition Network.

18-January-2021

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Scale, market power and competition in a digital world - Is bigger better?

This report assesses the impact of digitalisation on competition by examining the evolution of mark-ups and multifactor productivity (MFP) across firms of different sizes. It finds that size is positively related to mark-ups and that this relationship has strengthened over time. This trend has been accompanied by an increase in the relative productivity advantage of larger firms and both changes are more pronounced in digital-intensive sectors, suggesting that digitalisation may be an underlying driver. Policy makers may need to consider appropriate responses if digital technologies affect larger and smaller firms in a heterogeneous manner.

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