This paper reviews recent studies on the links between competition, innovation and
productivity growth in the long run. From a long-run perspective, one can see that gains from …

The African Economic Outlook is the only annual report that monitors in detail the economic
performance of 53 individual countries on the continent, using a strictly comparable …

We provide new measures of ethnic, linguistic, and religious fractionalization for about 190
countries. These measures are more comprehensive than those previously used in the …

Liberalization and privatization have made the regulatory environment more market-friendly
throughout the OECD. However using a large new dataset on product market regulation, we …

Free enterprise is off the leash and chasing new opportunities for profit making across the
globe. After a turbulent century of unprecedented social and technological change …

" The main purpose of this paper is to provide a critical overview of the recent empirical
contributions that use cross-country data to study the effects of product market regulation …

We use newly assembled data on regulation in several sectors of many OECD countries to
provide evidence that regulatory reform of product markets is associated with an increase in …

Employment protection systems are widely believed to generate distortions in firms' hiring
and firing decisions. However, much less is known about the impact of these regulations on …

After three years of near stagnation, the mood in Europe is definitely gloomy. Many doubt
that the European model has a future. In this paper, I argue that things are not so bad, and …

This paper presents empirical evidence on the role that policy and institutional settings in
both product and labour market play for productivity and firm dynamics. It exploits a new firm …