The OECD Report on Regulatory Reform

The OECD Report on Regulatory Reform

Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 72

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Report on the significance, direction, and means of reform in regulatory regimes in member countries. Contents: 1. Why reform regulations? 2. Effects of regulatory reform 3. Supporting public policy goals 4. Strategies for successful reform.


OECD Guiding Principles for Regulatory Quality and Performance

OECD Guiding Principles for Regulatory Quality and Performance

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2008-10-29

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13: 9264056386

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The goal of regulatory reform is to improve national economies and enhance their ability to adapt to change. Better regulation and structural reforms are necessary complements to sound fiscal and macroeconomic policies. Continual and far-reaching ...


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 ...


Regulatory Policy and Behavioural Economics

Regulatory Policy and Behavioural Economics

Author: Lunn Pete

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9264207856

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This study offers an international review of the initial applications of behavioural economics to policy, with a particular focus on regulatory policy.


OECD Regulatory Policy Outlook 2021

OECD Regulatory Policy Outlook 2021

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2021-10-06

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 926452892X

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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the crucial role regulation plays in the economy and society, but has also exposed gaps in domestic and international rule-making that have cost lives and money. The 2021 Regulatory Policy Outlook, the third in the series, maps country efforts to improve regulatory quality in line with the 2012 OECD Recommendation on Regulatory Policy and Governance, and shares good regulatory practices that can help close the gaps.