OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform: Italy 2007 Ensuring Regulatory Quality across Levels of Government

OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform: Italy 2007 Ensuring Regulatory Quality across Levels of Government

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2007-11-08

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9264037985

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This review analyses the institutional set-up for multi-level regulation, the specifics of power sharing between the State and the regions, as well as the horizontal and vertical co-ordination mechanisms in place in the country, before turning to their use in the four specific regions.


OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform Regulatory Policy in Croatia Implementation is Key

OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform Regulatory Policy in Croatia Implementation is Key

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2019-06-18

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 9264682066

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Croatia has made great strides in strengthening its regulatory policy framework. Improving the entire regulatory policy cycle will ensure that regulations are built on a foundation of solid evidence and public participation and are designed to improve the security, health and well-being of citizens at a reasonable cost.


Regulation, Productivity and Growth

Regulation, Productivity and Growth

Author: Giuseppe Nicoletti

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13:

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In this paper, we relate the scope and depth of regulatory reforms to growth outcomes in OECD countries. By means of a new set of quantitative indicators of regulation, we show that the cross-country variation of regulatory settings has increased in recent years, despite extensive liberalisation and privatisation in the OECD area. We then look at the regulation-growth linkage using data that cover a large set of manufacturing and service industries over the past two decades. We focus on multifactor productivity (MFP), which plays a crucial role in GDP growth and accounts for a significant share of its cross-country variance. We find evidence that reforms promoting private governance and competition (where these are viable) tend to boost productivity. Both privatisation and entry liberalisation are estimated to have a positive impact on productivity. In manufacturing the gains are greater the further a given country is from the technology leader, suggesting that regulation limiting ...


Electoral Systems and the Balance of Consumer-Producer Power

Electoral Systems and the Balance of Consumer-Producer Power

Author: Eric C. C. Chang

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-11-22

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1139492187

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This book investigates the effects of electoral systems on the relative legislative and, hence, regulatory influence of competing interests in society. Building on Ronald Rogowski and Mark Andreas Kayser's extension of the classic Stigler–Peltzman model of regulation, the authors demonstrate that majoritarian electoral arrangements should empower consumers relative to producers. Employing real price levels as a proxy for consumer power, the book rigorously establishes this proposition over time, within the OECD, and across a large sample of developing countries. Majoritarian electoral arrangements depress real prices by approximately ten percent, all else equal. The authors carefully construct and test their argument and broaden it to consider the overall welfare effects of electoral system design and the incentives of actors in the choice of electoral institutions.


OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform: Regulatory Reform in Greece 2001

OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform: Regulatory Reform in Greece 2001

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2001-05-30

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9264193456

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This review of regulatory reform in Greece presents an integrated assessment of areas such as the quality of the public sector, competition policy and enforcement, and market openness. It also contains chapters on sectors such as telecommunications, electricity, domestic ferries and trucking.