OECD Product Market Regulation Statistics

ISSN :
2225-1030 (online)
DOI :
10.1787/pmr-data-en
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The OECD has developed a range of indicators of product market regulation at both the economy-wide and sectoral levels. All of these indicators measure the extent to which policy settings promote or inhibit competition in areas of the product market where competition is viable.
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Keywords: competition, investment, entrepreneurship, trade, regulation, product markets, business
 

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  • Economy-wide regulation

    Product market regulation (PMR) indicators are economy-wide indicators of policy regimes in OECD countries and have been estimated for 1998, 2003 and around 2008. In 2008  the additional 4 OECD countries (Chile, Estonia, Israel and Slovenia) were included as well as Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia and South Africa. These indicators summarise a wide array of different regulatory provisions across countries.

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    • Professional services
      The professional services indicators cover entry and conduct regulations in the legal, accounting, engineering, and architecture professions and have been estimated for 1996, 2003 and around 2008.
    • Energy, transport and communications
      The OECD indicators of regulation in energy, transport and communications (ETCR) summarise regulatory provisions in seven sectors: telecoms, electricity, gas, post, rail, air passenger transport, and road freight. The ETCR indicators have been estimated in a long-time series and are therefore well suited for time-series analysis. The trade-off, however, is that the range of regulatory provisions covered by the ETCR indicators is not as broad as that of the indicators of product market regulation (PMR). However, the ETCR indicators cover sectors in which anti-competitive regulation tends to be concentrated, given that manufacturing sectors are typically lightly regulated and open to international competition in OECD countries.
    • Retail trade
      The OECD cross-section sectoral indicators measure regulatory conditions in the professional services and retail distribution sectors. The retail indicators cover barriers to entry, operational restrictions, and price controls. They are available for the years 1998, 2003 and around 2008 for 30 OECD countries and for around 2008 for another 4 OECD countries (Chile, Estonia, Israel and Slovenia) as well as for Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia and South Africa.
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