Service deregulation, competition and the performance of French and Italian firms

Francesco Daveri, Rémy Lecat and Maria Laura Parisi

No 3, Working Papers from Department of the Treasury, Ministry of the Economy and of Finance

Abstract: We use firm-level data for France and Italy to explore the impact of service regulation reform implemented in the two countries on the mark-up and eventually on the performance of firms between the second half of the 1990s and 2007. We find that the relation between entry barriers and productivity is negative and is crucially intermediated through the firm’s mark up. If both countries adopted OECD’s best practices in terms of entry barriers, their TFP level would increase by 3% for Italy and 3.5% for France.

Keywords: Regulation; services; performance; TFP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 K20 L51 O40 O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29
Date: 2013-03
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