How Can We Boost Competition in the Services Sector?
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Summary
‘How Can We Boost Competition in the Services Sector?’ is a key question in the process of creating a more effi-cient economic environment in Germany. This book contains a collection of conference contributions on service sector reforms from members of academic institutions, ministries, the EU Commission and other organisations. The conference consisted of a keynote on the importance and implementation of structural reforms in Europe and two panels that dealt with the evaluation of past reforms in the services sector and the potential scope and effects of further reforms.
Since the 1990s, productivity growth in Germany and other Member States of the European Union has been significantly lower than in the US. The development of productivity growth in the services sector is estimated to account for two thirds of this widening gap. The European Commission advocated reforms in the services sector in its country-specific recommendations for Germany. At a conference in Berlin in July 2016, experts from various fields presented and discussed studies on service sector reforms.
With contributions by
Oliver Holtemöller, Brigitte Zypries, Joaquim Nunes de Almeida, Dirk Palige, Henrik Enderlein, Stefan Profit, Davud Rostam-Afschar, Paolo Mengano, Oliver Arentz, Erik Canton, Jochen Andritzky
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Bibliographic data
- Edition
- 1/2017
- Copyright Year
- 2017
- ISBN-Print
- 978-3-8487-4676-7
- ISBN-Online
- 978-3-8452-8902-1
- Publisher
- Nomos, Baden-Baden
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 270
- Product Type
- Edited Book
Table of contents
- Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 15
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- I.2 Competition in the Services Sector No access Pages 23 - 24Authors:
- II.1 No access Pages 25 - 29Authors:
- II.2 No access Pages 30 - 35Authors:
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- Executive Summary No accessAuthors:
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- 1.1 What are structural reforms? No accessAuthors:
- 1.2 Why structural reforms are important for growth No accessAuthors:
- 1.3 Why structural reforms matter for the euro area No accessAuthors:
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- 2.1 How to make sense of laundry lists No accessAuthors:
- 2.2 Deriving consensus reform lists No accessAuthors:
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- 3.1 Growth effects No accessAuthors:
- 3.2 Contribution to euro area stability No accessAuthors:
- 3.3 Political feasibility No accessAuthors:
- 4 Conclusion: The euro area reform priorities on a single page No accessAuthors:
- Appendix No accessAuthors:
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- IV.1 Introduction No access Pages 87 - 88Authors:
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- Abstract No accessAuthors:
- 1 Introduction No accessAuthors:
- 2 The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 as a natural experiment No accessAuthors:
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- 3.1 Definition of the treatment and control groups No accessAuthors:
- 3.2 Trends in craftsmanship No accessAuthors:
- 3.3 Identification of causal effects No accessAuthors:
- 3.4 Other entrepreneurship policies No accessAuthors:
- 3.5 Estimation procedure No accessAuthors:
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- 4.1 Sample design No accessAuthors:
- 4.2 Descriptives No accessAuthors:
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- 5.1 Treatment effects on transition probabilities No accessAuthors:
- 5.2 Treatment effects on self-employment probabilities No accessAuthors:
- 5.3 Heterogeneous treatment effects No accessAuthors:
- 5.4 Specification and sensitivity tests No accessAuthors:
- 6 Summary and conclusions No accessAuthors:
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- 1 Introduction No accessAuthors:
- 2 Literature Review No accessAuthors:
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- 3.1 Data preparation No accessAuthors:
- 3.2 Panel VAR No accessAuthors:
- 3.3 Robustness No accessAuthors:
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- 4.1 The CompNet firm-level-based database No accessAuthors:
- 4.2 OECD’s database on Product Market Regulations No accessAuthors:
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- 5.1 Baseline specification No accessAuthors:
- 5.2 Labour costs No accessAuthors:
- 5.3 Productivity No accessAuthors:
- 5.4 Resources allocation No accessAuthors:
- 5.5 Competition and concentration No accessAuthors:
- 6 Conclusions No accessAuthors:
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- Annex A No accessAuthors:
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- Dr Stefan Profit No access
- Dr Davud Rostam-Afschar No access
- Paolo Mengano No access
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- Executive Summary No accessAuthors:
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- 3 Services gap – the relationship between the services sector and the manufacturing sector No accessAuthors:
- 4 Empirical survey of the status quo of the regulation in the services sector No accessAuthors:
- 5 Endeavours to deregulate the services market No accessAuthors:
- 6 Economic effects of services deregulation No accessAuthors:
- 6.1 Direct effects No accessAuthors:
- 6.2 Indirect effects No accessAuthors:
- 6.3 Effects on imports and exports No accessAuthors:
- 6.4 Labour market effects No accessAuthors:
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- 7 Politico-economic considerations for services liberalisation No accessAuthors:
- 8 Approaches for reform for Germany No accessAuthors:
- 8.1 Approaches for reform No accessAuthors:
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- 9 Conclusion No accessAuthors:
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- Regression model and data basis No accessAuthors:
- Model results No accessAuthors:
- Categorising the model results No accessAuthors:
- Appendix B: Operating surplus in a national and international comparison No accessAuthors:
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- 1 Motivation No accessAuthors:
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- 2.1 Mark-ups No accessAuthors:
- 2.2 Allocation of productive resources No accessAuthors:
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- (i) Regulation and mark-ups No accessAuthors:
- (ii) Regulation and allocative efficiency No accessAuthors:
- 5 Economy-wide effects: Simulations with QUEST No accessAuthors:
- 6 Concluding remarks No accessAuthors:
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- VI Conclusions No access Pages 269 - 270Authors:
