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The old mistakes – propping up lame-duck industries or betting on specific technologies – can largely be avoided through strong policies on competition and state aid (to ensure that support for the auto sector, say, is not seen as support only for current incumbents) and sunset clauses for specific assistance.
The main causes of the fighting that has afflicted the DRC for so long have been competition for control of that impoverished country’s vast natural resources and neighboring Rwanda’s effort to wipe out what it sees as a potential threat posed by perpetrators of the 1994 genocide who took refuge in the DRC.
BARCELONA – The current global financial crisis has made evident the tremendous pressures to which competition policy is subject on both sides of the Atlantic.
In particular, competition policy has suffered a setback mostly because of the distortional aid measures to financial intermediaries, as well as a suspension of merger rules to save institutions.
The result is very weak competition among the players left.
Competition policy was attuned to deal with individual crises, but a systemic crisis has almost broken its back.
In Europe, the “efficiency view” of competition policy also prevailed.
These so called “anti-dumping” laws allow a company that suspects a foreign rival of selling a product below cost to request that the government impose special tariffs to protect it from “unfair” competition.
A “business model” based on the organized creation and distribution of public-sector demand and the suppression of competition will no longer work.
Strengthening the rule of law and ensuring compliance with formal rules will require more transparency and the elimination of opaque extra-market factors in private-sector competition.
More important, Russia’s state-capitalist model has led to weak competition and declining incentives for private investment and entrepreneurship.
When the opposition offers the government talks on health-care reform or, most recently, on combating unemployment, the underlying competition is about competence rather than values.
It calls for monetary financing of fiscal deficits (now called “people’s quantitative easing”), nationalization of industry (beginning with the railroads), and an end to competition and the private provision of public services.
On a continent long defined by democratic competition between center-right and center-left parties, the collapse of the left could have far-reaching consequences, beyond particular party interests.
That provides an incentive to retrofitting companies, while competition for customers, rather than for subsidies, will encourage the various providers to be efficient.
What Europe needs, instead, is a reform strategy that increases competitiveness and reduces barriers to competition.
TOKYO – As with any human interaction, international relations, whether economic or political, is a combination of cooperation and competition.
To that end, it must revive productivity growth, expand exports, open its economy to international competition, and forge new bilateral and regional trade deals with major economic players.
Another consequence is that regulatory competition is likely to increase in Europe, as companies are less bound by local interests to keep their headquarters at “home” if the tax or regulatory environment becomes unfavorable.
Amid the chaos of Mobutu’s downfall, a catastrophic regional war drawing in forces from Angola, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zimbabwe erupted, fueled by competition for access to minerals, causing the death or displacement of millions – indeed, slaughter on a scale unseen since World War II.
For every worker and firm affected adversely by import competition, there is one or more worker and firm expecting to reap the benefits of access to markets abroad.
When production peaked, the bottom fell out of the market, because OPEC members were forced to enter into direct price competition with one another.
All of this suggests that competition in energy markets may shift from crude oil to refined products.
A shift from competition in crude to competition in petroleum products would have a profound effect on global oil markets and related industries, like shipping.
The US seems more reluctant than ever to exercise the leverage that it still has to press China to correct policies that threaten to distort trade, foster huge trade imbalances, and spark greater competition for scarce raw materials.
Thus stabilization and recovery in all Asia is in China’s interests, even if recovery in those countries which devalued their currencies leads to more intense competition in world markets for China.
Furthermore, in order to promote the kind of regional competition that has worked so well to motivate regional reforms in the past, the six countries should begin the process of screening together.
The competition – and prospect of belonging to a group of frontrunners – would be an added incentive for Balkan leaders to engage with the EU accession process.
To do so requires clear and objective criteria, close technical engagement by European Commission experts, a specific timetable of opportunities, and transparent assessments that trigger positive competition between neighboring countries.
Finally, international competition for inward foreign direct investment may lead governments to reduce tax rates and increase concessions for foreign investors.
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