Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Sweden

Deborah Roseveare, Martin Jorgensen and Lennart Goranson

No 388, OECD Economics Department Working Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: Vigorous product market competition plays a central role in bolstering productivity growth. Sweden has strengthened competition legislation and deregulated a number of sectors, including electricity, telecommunications and parts of transport, over the past 10 to 15 years. This paper examines the current state of product market competition and proposes further measures. A stronger institutional framework would facilitate identification and elimination of anti-competitive behaviour, such as hard-core cartels. Efforts to inject effective competition into a range of network industries have been broadly successful, but specific measures could increase competition in several sectors, such as retail and construction. There is also room to boost competition in Sweden’s large and decentralised public sector and in its interactions with the private sector, so that competitive neutrality applies to all public sector activities ... La vigueur de la concurrence sur les marchés de produits joue un rôle central dans la stimulation des gains de productivité. La Suède a renforcé la législation concernant la concurrence et déréglementé un certain nombre de secteurs, dont l’électricité, les télécommunications et certains segments des transports. Cette étude examine l’état actuel de la concurrence en Suède et propose des mesures supplémentaires. Un cadre institutionnel renforcé faciliterait la détection et l’élimination des comportements anticoncurrentiels, don’t les ententes injustifiables. Des efforts ont été accomplis pour introduire un peu plus de concurrence active dans un éventail d’industries de réseau et ils ont globalement été couronnés de succès, mais quelques mesures concrètes seront nécessaires pour améliorer la concurrences dans plusieurs autres secteurs, dont la distribution et la construction. Il y a lieu également d’intensifier les efforts pour stimuler la concurrence dans le vaste secteur public ...

Keywords: competition; competitive neutrality; concurrence; construction; construction; grande distribution; industrie de réseau; marchés de produits; marchés publics; network industries; neutralité de concurrence; product markets; public procurement; public sector; regulation; retail distribution; réglementation; Suède; Sweden (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H4 K21 L1 L32 L33 L41 L43 L44 L8 L9 O52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-05-12
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