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Regulatory Reform and Competition: How to Push the Agenda Forward. A European Perspective

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  • Alberto Heimler

    (Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione, via dei Robilant 11, Roma 00194, Italy.)

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In recent decades, Community institutions have promoted most of the pro-competitive reforms in continental Europe. Liberalizations originating at the national level were seldom successful because they were blocked by arguments based on often fictitious general interest considerations (stability, universal service, continuity of supply, consumer protection, employment, etc). In Italy, also as a result of competition advocacy by the antitrust Authority, the Government has recently liberalized a number of private service activities. Experience shows that the probability of competition-oriented reforms is greatly enhanced if law making is accompanied by a technical analysis of the objectives, necessity and proportionality of regulatory restrictions.

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  • Alberto Heimler, 2009. "Regulatory Reform and Competition: How to Push the Agenda Forward. A European Perspective," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 51(4), pages 540-557, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:compes:v:51:y:2009:i:4:p:540-557
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    1. Bonanno, Alessandro & Castellari, Elena & Sckokai, Paolo, 2014. "Trade Liberalization and Food Retail Structure: The Italian Case," 2014 Third Congress, June 25-27, 2014, Alghero, Italy 173090, Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA).
    2. Bonanno, Alessandro & Castellari, Elena & Scockai, Paolo, 2014. "The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Food Retail Structure and Food Price Levels in Italy: an Empirical Analysis," 2014 International Congress, August 26-29, 2014, Ljubljana, Slovenia 182762, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    3. Alessandro Bonanno & Francesco Bimbo & Elena Castellari & Paolo Sckokai, 2017. "Five-a-Day, Fruit and Vegetables Portions, and the Food Environment: The Italian Case," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 39(4), pages 682-709.
    4. Castellari Elena & Sckokai Paolo & Bonanno Alessandro, 2019. "Food Retail Liberalization, Food Retail Structure and Food Prices: The Italian Case," Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization, De Gruyter, vol. 17(2), pages 1-11, November.

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