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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 | |