Giuseppe Nicoletti

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a database on indicators of product market regulations and employment protection legislation for most of the OECD countries and illustrate a methodology for aggregating these detailed indicators into summary indicators of the strictness of regulations.

TL;DR: Nicoletti and Scarpetta as discussed by the authors investigate empirically the regulation-growth link using data that cover a large set of manufacturing and service industries in OECD countries over the past two decades and focusing on multifactor productivity (MFP), which plays a crucial role in GDP growth and accounts for a significant share of its cross-country variance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used newly assembled data on regulation in several sectors of many OECD countries to provide evidence that regulatory reform of product markets is associated with an increase in investment.

TL;DR: In this article, a new set of indicators that measure differences in the regulation of non-manufacturing sectors of OECD countries over the past three decades is presented. But the indicators focus on regulations that affect competitive pressures in areas where competition is economically viable and on the potential costs that these regulations entail for economic activities that use the output of regulated sectors as intermediate inputs in production.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate empirically the regulation-growth link using data that cover a large set of manufacturing and service industries in OECD countries over the past two decades and focusing on multifactor productivity (MFP), which plays a crucial role in GDP growth and accounts for a significant share of its cross-country variance.