Product Market Regulation in the Non-Manufacturing Sectors of OECD Countries: Measurement and Highlights

Product market regulation in the non-manufacturing sectors of OECD countries: measurement and highlights This paper describes a new set of indicators that measure differences in the regulation of non-manufacturing sectors of OECD countries over the past three decades. The indicators focus on regulations that affect competitive pressures in areas where competition is economically viable and on the potential costs that these regulations entail for economic activities that use the output of regulated sectors as intermediate inputs in production. The paper illustrates the methodology used to compute the indicators and the patterns of product market regulation and regulatory reform that emerge from the analysis. The robustness of results is assessed in three ways: comparing the indicators to other available data covering the same areas; computing confidence intervals around the indicator values; and listing econometric results obtained by linking the indicators to measures of competition and economic performance. Regulation des services dans les pays de l'OCDE : evaluation et traits saillants Regulation des services dans les pays de l’OCDE : evaluation et traits saillants Ce document decrit un nouvel ensemble d'indicateurs qui mesurent les differences dans la regulation des secteurs non-manufacturiels des pays de l'OCDE au cours de trois dernieres decennies. Les indicateurs se concentrent sur les regulations qui influencent la pression concurrentielle dans les domaines d'activite economique ou la concurrence est possible, ainsi que sur les couts potentiels que ces regulations impliquent pour les activites economiques qui utilisent les produits des secteurs regules comme biens intermediaires. Le document illustre la methodologie utilisee pour calculer les indicateurs ainsi que les profils de regulation et de reforme des marches des biens qui emergent de l'analyse. La robustesse des resultats est verifiee de trois facons: on compare les indicateurs a d'autres sources d'information concernant les meme domaines d'analyse; on calcule des intervalles de confiance centres sur les valeurs estimees des indicateurs; et on mentionne les resultats conometriques qui ont ete obtenus par les nombreuses etudes qui ont exploite ces indicateurs pour examiner la relation entre l'intensite de la concurrence et la performance economique.

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