Competition, Regulation, and Efficiency in Service Industries
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Competition, Regulation, and Efficiency in Service Industries
IN THIS PAPER I examine the regulatory and competitive environments in which four service industries operate in Europe and Japan, suggesting how certain types of regulation and the lack of adequate competition reduce productivity. I then present estimates of the relative productivities of these industries compared with the United States and suggest that in practice, the differences in the compe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Microeconomics
سال: 1993
ISSN: 1057-8641
DOI: 10.2307/2534738