Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Sweden

Deborah Roseveare ; Martin Jorgensen ; Lennart Goranson

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

关键词: competition;    retail distribution;    competitive neutrality;    public sector;    construction;    regulation;    public procurement;    Sweden;    product markets;    network industries;   

DOI  :  https://doi.org/10.1787/735381855384

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: OECD iLibrary

【 摘 要 】

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 ...