This paper proposes a sector taxonomy of the rationale for the presence of state-owned enterprises in specific industries. The taxonomy is conceptualized only on an efficiency-based rationale for state...
This paper develops a novel methodology to construct a harmonized cross-country database of the state’s footprint in markets: the Businesses of the State database. The methodology of the database is built...
Collusive agreements among competitors create unmitigated harm. When competitors agree to limit competition, i.e. to form economic cartels, the poor pay up to 50 percent more for essential goods, growth...
This paper analyzes competition in the retail banking markets in Latin America. Retail banking services, that is banking products and services for consumers and small businesses, including deposit accounts...
The main objective of this report is to provide new evidence on Russia’s productivity growth dynamics and its determinants to guide the design of productivity-enhancing policies. The report builds both...
This study shows how the World Bank Group’s Markets and Competition Policy Assessment Tool (MCPAT) can help economies identify reform areas that would make government interventions in freight and logistics...
This paper describes how different policy distortions have been impeding better integration of Brazil's external and internal product markets and discusses how these distortions have prevented domestic...
Brazil enters the election year 2018 with an economy that is gradually recovering from the deepest recession in its recent economic history. This book is motivated by the need to understand the possible...
Brazil enters the election year 2018 with an economy that is gradually recovering from the deepest recession in its recent economic history. This book is motivated by the need to understand the possible...
Stagnant productivity growth and high disparities in productivity levels across Mexican states have been holding back economic growth. In general, Mexico’s federal government has a solid competition policy...
Argentina needs to lift and stabilize economic growth to create more and better jobs while reigniting productivity to bring income closer to that of more advanced economies. Integration into global markets...
Este informe aplica para el Estado de Tabasco la metodología desarrollada y aplicada en otras jurisdicciones por el Grupo Banco Mundial incluida en el Markets and Competition Policy Assessment Tool (MCPAT)...
This publication provides an assessment of new developments and recent trends on competition advocacy based on an innovative and comprehensive conceptual framework that builds on practical implementation...
This review of the empirical literature shows that industries with more intense domestic competition will export more. Competition law enforcement can be traced to export performance and is complementary...
Developing countries have enough obstacles to overcome, disadvantages of geography, climate, access to finance, lack of resources, poor infrastructure, without the additional burden of markets that do...