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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| List of Contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Contrasting Europe's Decline: Do Product Market Reforms Help? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Competition and Economic Performance: A Brief Review of the Literature | |
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| The Maze of Services Regulation | |
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| A brief overview | |
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| Energy | |
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| Electricity | |
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| Pre-privatization structural issues | |
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| The EU reform agenda | |
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| Reform in the three countries | |
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| Privatization and structural change | |
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| Regulation and deregulation | |
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| Economic outcomes | |
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| Evaluation | |
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| Natural Gas | |
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| Pre-privatization structural issues | |
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| The EU reform agenda | |
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| Reform in the three countries | |
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| Privatization and structural change | |
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| Regulation and deregulation | |
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| Economic outcomes | |
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| Evaluation | |
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| Telecommunications | |
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| Pre-privatization structural issues | |
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| The EU reform agenda | |
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| Reform in the three countries | |
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| Privatization and structural change | |
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| Regulation and deregulation | |
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| Economic outcomes | |
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| Evaluation | |
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| Railways | |
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| Pre-privatization structural issues | |
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| The EU reform agenda | |
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| Reform in the three countries | |
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| Privatization and structural change | |
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| Regulation and deregulation | |
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| Economic outcomes | |
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| Evaluation | |
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| Professional services | |
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| Structural issues | |
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| The need for a reform agenda | |
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| The outcome of a slow reform | |
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| Evaluation | |
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| Retailing | |
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| Basic characteristics of the retail industry | |
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| The reform agenda | |
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| Implementation of the reform agenda in Germany, Italy, and the UK | |
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| Comparison of performance | |
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| Postal services | |
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| Postal service systems before liberalization | |
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| The reform agenda | |
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| Implementation of the reform agenda in Germany, Italy, and the UK | |
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| Comparison of performance | |
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| Water | |
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| Pre-privatization structure | |
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| The EU reform agenda | |
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| Reform in the three countries | |
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| Privatization and structural change | |
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| Regulation and de-regulation | |
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| Economic outcomes | |
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| Evaluation | |
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| The Changing Role of the Tertiary Sector | |
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| The Impact of Services Regulation | |
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| Productivity in manufacturing | |
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| Inward FDI | |
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| Looking Ahead: Will Liberalization Policies Succeed? | |
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| References | |
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| Comments | |
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| Olivier Blanchard | |
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| Jan Svejnar | |
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| How to Gain Political Support for Reforms | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Evidence and Theory of Reforms | |
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| Evidence about the reform momentum | |
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| Theories of reforms: a framework of analysis | |
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| Exploit a Parliamentary Majority | |
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| The 1986 Social Security Act in the UK | |
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| "Pushing reforms": the role of momentum | |
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| Strengths and caveats: a tale of three failures | |
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| Widen Your Political Base | |
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| Flexicurity in Denmark | |
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| Mass privatizations in Central and Eastern European transition countries | |
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| The season of reforms in Italy | |
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| Divide and Conquer | |
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| Divide et Impera | |
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| Privatize or corporatize: Telecom Italia versus France Telecom | |
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| Break vertical chain: intermediate goods | |
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| Trickle-down effects | |
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| Market power and gradual reforms | |
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| The 1994-1997 reforms of EPL in Spain | |
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| Exploit External Constraints | |
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| Skoda (Czech Republic) and AvtoZAZ (Ukraine) | |
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| The privatization of Skoda | |
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| The privatization of AvtoZAZ | |
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| Broader evidence | |
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| How to Reform: Pulling the Strings | |
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| References | |
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| Comments | |
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| Gerard Roland | |
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| Stefano Scarpetta | |
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| Final Remarks | |
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| Christopher Pissarides | |
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| Andre Sapir | |
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| Vito Tanzi | |
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| Index | |