2-April-2009
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The financial crisis that started in the summer of 2007 is shaking the world’s economic system. It started in the financial sector, but is now having an important impact on the real economy. This paper discusses the role of competition policy in times of systemic financial crises, focusing mainly on the financial sector but also looks at the applicability of competition policy to the real sector.
31-mars-2009
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Le droit et la politique de la concurrence en République tchèque se sont alignés sur les pratiques européennes. Depuis l’examen par l’OCDE de sa politique de la concurrence en 2001, la République tchèque est devenue membre de l’Union européenne et sa loi sur la concurrence a été révisée...
7-December-2007
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Competition can improve the functioning of the retail banking sector without harming prudential regulation. Customer mobility and choice are essential to stimulate banking competition; credit ratings and easy, low-cost transaction costs for switching are crucial for promoting customer mobility.
21-November-2007
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Regulation of the legal professions, including self-regulation, typically involves many restrictions on entry and professional conduct. Certain restrictions may be a remedy to market failures and may also be based on distributional or paternalistic motives. But other restrictions can be based on rent-seeking and achieve cartel-like effects. The major policy challenge is to identify and remove the restrictions which are unnecessary or
9-juillet-2007
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Les pouvoirs publics ont longtemps fourni à leurs administrés des biens ou des services qui pouvaient, sous une certaine forme, l’être par le secteur privé. Ces dernières décennies, la tendance a cependant consisté à transférer ces fonctions et les actifs publics correspondants entre des mains privées. La méthode la plus courante et généralement privilégiée à cet effet est la privatisation ou la vente ou le transfert direct de la
16-juin-2005
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15-July-2004
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This report is part of the monitoring of developments since the 1999 OECD Report on Regulatory Reform in Japan ("1999 Report"), with particular attention to the implementation of its recommendations.
1-January-2004
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Universal service obligations are common in many of the infrastructure sectors. The obligations are often cited as a justification for limiting entry of new providers because the new providers would cherry-pick the high profit customers who provide the basis for subsidisation of another group of customers. When obligations are beneficial, there are a number of policy traps that can be encountered. Obligations are often not
12-juin-2003
Français, , 575kb
Is competition policy sufficiently integrated into the general policy framework for regulation? Competition policy is central to regulatory reform, because (as Chapter 2 shows) its principles and analysis provide a benchmark for assessing the qua...
10-April-2003
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Competition policy is central to regulatory reform, because its principles and analysis provide a benchmark for assessing the quality of economic and social regulations, as well as motivate the application of the laws that protect competition.