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Product market regulation, innovation and productivity

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Several recent policy and academic contributions consider that liberalising product markets would foster innovation and growth. This paper analyses the innovation-productivity relationship at the industry-level for a sample of OECD manufacturing industries. We pay particular attention to the vertically-induced influence of product market regulation (PMR) of key input sectors of the economy on the innovative process of manufacturing and its consequences on productivity. We test for a differentiated effect of this type of PMR depending on whether countries are technological leaders or laggards in a given industry and for a given time period. Contrary to the most widespread policy claims, the innovation-boosting effects of liberalisation policies at the leading edge are systematically not supported by the data. These findings question the relevance of a research and innovation policy based on liberalisation.

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Length: 33 pages
Date of creation: Mar 2014
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Keywords: Product market regulation; innovation; productivity; growth.;

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  1. Bruno Amable & Ivan Ledezma, 2013. "Export performance and product market regulation," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) halshs-00795316, HAL.

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