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The development of regulatory frameworks that encourage competition would also help, as would limiting tax-base erosion.
With issues concerning international trade, investment, competition, and intellectual property rights increasingly linked, global approaches that can address them in a holistic way have become vital.
Greece’s heavy regulatory burden, well described by the World Bank’s indicators on the ease of doing business, represents a significant entry barrier in many sectors, effectively closing off entire industries and occupations to competition.
There should be an open competition, in which the best candidate wins on the basis of his or her ideas.
Moreover, because competition between financial intermediaries steadily drives down the “price of risk,” the future became (in theory) virtually risk-free.
Block the Commission's Competition Policy NowLast December, the European Commission published a Green Paper that contains proposals to reform the EU's rules on mergers.
The possibility of stopping the clock on the proceedings for a couple of weeks gives a company some time to negotiate remedies with the Commission, while preserving certainty in the timetable, which constitutes the main advantage of Europe's competition rules.
The proposals also clarify Brussels' jurisdiction in relation to national competition authorities: mergers requiring a review by three or more national authorities will go automatically to Brussels.
The new rules fall short of addressing the main drawback of European competition policy, which is institutional, not technical: the Commission remains simultaneously prosecutor, judge, and jury of all merger cases.
The Commission claims that the institutional structure for competition rulemaking is enshrined in the EU's core Treaties and could be changed through regulation.
[Such agencies, however] cannot be given responsibilities for which the Treaty has conferred a direct power of decision on the Commission, for example in the area of competition policy.''
By moving fast on a few technical improvements of the merger control rules, and introducing them ahead of the Convention, the Commission acted as if it were hoping that the institutional structure of competition policy would not become an item on the agenda of the Convention: we just fixed it, let's wait and see how the new rules work out , it seems to be saying.
The new regulation should be blocked, at least until the Commission commits to put forward a serious proposal for the overhaul of the institutional setting of European competition policy.
The fact that competition policy is the only tooth that bites in Brussels should not be an excuse for preserving a system that defies democracy and seriously lacks transparency.
If the issue is competition, Commissioner Mario Monti represents Europe, stridently so, as Americans have learned to their surprise.
According to Tremonti, what Italy needs are a "new European protectionism" against unfair competition from developing countries and a rightwing "New Deal" that rejects independent enforcement of antitrust laws in favor of corporatist ideas.
And economic dislocation is bound to intensify in a world of global competition and new technologies that will eliminate millions of existing jobs.
Instead of eliminating this system, as expected, Modi’s government has augmented subsidies for sugar exports to support higher output, raised import duties on sugar to discourage foreign competition, and increased the percentage of sugar-based ethanol that must be blended with petrol.
The standard answer is that close integration with the rest of Europe brings access to a market of more than 500 million people and injects healthy doses of competition and investment into the British economy, helping to raise productivity.
The increased international competition associated with globalization may also contribute to overall prosperity, as it strengthens incentives to adopt new technologies and to innovate.
The full competition and information requirements ensure that all contracts are uncoerced (there is no monopoly power) and all expectations are fulfilled, i.e., people get what they want.
In sector after sector, mid-size companies face greater competition from small disruptors and/or their large counterparts.
It is absurd that the EU now has instruments to enforce everything from competition policy to policing, but not to protect its core liberal-democratic tenets.
Because these companies are treated as a source of power and rents, rather than of economic growth, they are peculiarly disinterested in competition, innovation, entrepreneurship, and productivity.
For example, cronies are entitled to buy assets from state companies at discretionary prices and fill government procurement orders with no competition.
But, while such a system could balance competition with cooperation, it would lack an anchor to ensure stability.
The European system must be put to work to serve Europeans’ interests in the global competition that will underpin multilateral negotiations in the years ahead.
It is much more difficult to appoint a political puppet to the Board in a system of open competition than under the current scheme.
Of course, opening up the competition for Executive Board portfolios to all member countries does not guarantee the most qualified and politically independent person gets the job; it only increases the probability of such an outcome.
For this reason alone, the competition for the limited seats on the Executive Board must be an open one.
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