OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform: Regulatory Reform in Greece 2001
OECD's review of Greece's regulatory reform. It finds that under the spur of intensifying European competition and seizing the opportunity of a stable political and macroeconomic environment, Greece has launched itself on the road to market liberalisation. This road, trod later in Greece...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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Paris :
OECD Publishing
2001.
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| Colección: | OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform,
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705373806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Part I""; ""Executive summary""; ""Chapter 1 Regulatory Reform in Greece""; ""Introduction""; ""Regulatory reform emerged in the wake of macroeconomic reforms, and by the late 1990s many significant reforms were underway""; ""Yet Greece lags other OECD countries in Regulatory reforms, and still suffers the high costs of poor regulation""; ""Box 1.1. What is regulation and regulatory reform?""; ""Long traditions of political intervention and protection of economic actors are difficukt to reverse, but a pro-reform...""
- ""The Macroeconomic context for sectoral regulatory reform""""Macroeconomic reforms and EMU membership establish a basis for continued strong growth, and provide a good opportunity... ""; ""Greece's state-led development strategy based on import substitution and credit allocation produced strong growth until 1974.""; ""...but left a legacy of corporatism and extensive state collaboration with powerful private firms, and fostered the growth...""; ""Economic performance deteriorated sharply after 1974, in the midst of historic change and international economic turbulence""
- ""State interventions into an increasingly troubled private sector, combined with wage awards that exceeded productivity...""""A vicious cycle had emerged as weaker enterprises required more state support, and as a faltering economy was used to justify""; ""Greece paid a large price for the poor economic and budgetary policies of the 1980s, and in many respects ended the decade...""; ""Genuine reforms were launched in the 1990s qith important changes to financial and labour market regulations, some product...""
- ""The corner was turned in the mid-1990s, when a package of EU-related reforms boosted growth and investment...""""Today, the Greek economy is on track to continued solid growth. A high priorority should be placed on supply-side reforms... ""; ""Box 1.2. External factors affecting Greek economic policy in the 1990s""; ""Economic impacts of sectoral regulatory reform""; ""Box 1.3. Key structural problems in the Greek economy""; ""Public enterprises have created costly economy-wide distorsions. Continuation of the privatisation programme is a high...""
- ""In the telecommunications sector, services and prices have improved after reform, but energy reforms lag""""Box 1.4. Recent and envisioned privatisations of state owned enterprises in Greece""; ""Market liberalisation has proceeded the furthest in the financial sector""; ""Simplification of the tax system has improved transparency and tax revenues, but major reform is necessary to establish...""; ""Reducing red tape and regulatory uncertainties for firms should boost potential growth...""; ""Table 1.1. Sectoral regulatory reform in Greece by early 2001""
- ""Table 1.2. Potential impacts of sectoral regulatory reform in Greece""
