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Since the 1990s, productivity growth in Germany and other Member States of the European Union has been significantly lower than in the US. The development of productivity growth in the services sector is estimated to account for two thirds of this widening gap. The European Commission advocated reforms in the services sector in its country-specific recommendations for Germany. At a conference in Berlin in July 2016, experts from various fields presented and discussed studies on service sector reforms.
With contributions by
Oliver Holtemöller Brigitte Zypries Joaquim Nunes de Almeida Dirk Palige Henrik Enderlein Stefan Profit Davud Rostam-Afschar Paolo Mengano Oliver Arentz Erik Canton Jochen Andritzky
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Weitere Infos & Material
1;Cover;1
2; I Introduction;16
2.1; I.1 Overall Productivity and Product Market Regulation;16
2.1.1; References;20
2.2; I.2 Competition in the Services Sector;22
3; II The Practical View;24
3.1; II.1;24
3.2; II.2;29
3.3; II.3;35
3.3.1; References;40
4; III Which Structural Reforms for Europe?;42
4.1; Executive Summary;42
4.2; 1 What are structural reforms and why are they important?;43
4.2.1; 1.1 What are structural reforms?;43
4.2.2; 1.2 Why structural reforms are important for growth;45
4.2.3; 1.3 Why structural reforms matter for the euro area;48
4.3; 2 What are the recommendations?;51
4.3.1; 2.1 How to make sense of laundry lists;51
4.3.2; 2.2 Deriving consensus reform lists;52
4.4; 3 How to prioritize structural reforms?;58
4.4.1; 3.1 Growth effects;58
4.4.2; 3.2 Contribution to euro area stability;60
4.4.3; 3.3 Political feasibility;61
4.5; 4 Conclusion: The euro area reform priorities on a single page;64
4.6; Appendix;67
4.7; References;82
5; IV Past Reforms in the Services Sector and their Effects;86
5.1; IV.1 Introduction;86
5.2; IV.2 Entry regulation and entrepreneurship: a natural experiment in German craftsmanship;88
5.2.1; Abstract;88
5.2.2; 1 Introduction;88
5.2.3; 2 The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 as a natural experiment;91
5.2.4; 3 Empirical specification;93
5.2.4.1; 3.1 Definition of the treatment and control groups;93
5.2.4.2; 3.2 Trends in craftsmanship;94
5.2.4.3; 3.3 Identification of causal effects;97
5.2.4.4; 3.4 Other entrepreneurship policies;99
5.2.5; 3.5 Estimation procedure;101
5.2.6; 4 Data and descriptives;103
5.2.6.1; 4.1 Sample design;103
5.2.6.2; 4.2 Descriptives;105
5.2.7; 5 Results;110
5.2.7.1; 5.1 Treatment effects on transition probabilities;113
5.2.7.2; 5.2 Treatment effects on self-employment probabilities;115
5.2.7.3; 5.3 Heterogeneous treatment effects;117
5.2.7.4; 5.4 Specification and sensitivity tests;121
5.2.8; 6 Summary and conclusions;124
5.2.9; Appendix;125
5.2.10; References;130
5.3; IV.3 Structural Reforms in Transportations: Dynamics and Sectorial Spillovers;133
5.3.1; Abstract;133
5.3.2; 1 Introduction;133
5.3.3; 2 Literature Review;135
5.3.4; 3 Methodology;142
5.3.4.1; 3.1 Data preparation;143
5.3.4.2; 3.2 Panel VAR;143
5.3.4.3; 3.3 Robustness;146
5.3.5; 4 Data;147
5.3.5.1; 4.1 The CompNet firm-level-based database;147
5.3.5.2; 4.2 OECD’s database on Product Market Regulations;151
5.3.6; 5 Results;153
5.3.6.1; 5.1 Baseline specification;153
5.3.6.2; 5.2 Labour costs;155
5.3.6.3; 5.3 Productivity;156
5.3.6.4; 5.4 Resources allocation;157
5.3.6.5; 5.5 Competition and concentration;159
5.3.7; 6 Conclusions;161
5.3.8; Annex;162
5.3.8.1; Annex A;162
5.3.8.2; Annex B;165
5.3.9; References;165
5.4; IV.4 Discussion;169
5.4.1; Dr Stefan Profit;169
5.4.2; Dr Davud Rostam-Afschar;172
5.4.3; Paolo Mengano;173
6; V How to Assess the Economic Impact of Regulation – Recent Developments in Europe and Germany and Outlook to the Next Step;176
6.1; V.1 Services liberalisation in Germany: Overview and the potential of deregulation;176
6.1.1; Executive Summary;176
6.1.2; 1 Introduction;177
6.1.3; 2 The German services market – definition and overview;178
6.1.3.1; 3 Services gap – the relationship between the services sector and the manufacturing sector;185
6.1.3.2; 4 Empirical survey of the status quo of the regulation in the services sector;193
6.1.3.3; 5 Endeavours to deregulate the services market;198
6.1.3.4; 6 Economic effects of services deregulation;200
6.1.4; 6.1 Direct effects;201
6.1.5; 6.2 Indirect effects;203
6.1.6; 6.3 Effects on imports and exports;207
6.1.7; 6.4 Labour market effects;208
6.1.8; 6.5 Impacts on consumers;209
6.1.8.1; 7 Politico-economic considerations for services liberalisation;210
6.1.8.2; 8 Approaches for reform for Germany;212
6.1.9; 8.1 Approaches for reform;213
6.1.10; 8.2 Model based estimation of the welfare effects;218
6.1.10.1; 9 Conclusion;219
6.1.10.2; Appendix;221
6.1.11; Appendix A: Empirical Analysis for Germany;221
6.1.11.1; Regression model and data basis;222
6.1.11.2; Model results;225
6.1.11.3; Categorising the model results;234
6.1.12; Appendix B: Operating surplus in a national and international comparison;234
6.1.13; References;236
6.2; V.2 Economic impact of competition-friendly deregulation in Germany's professional services;240
6.2.1; Abstract;240
6.2.2; 1 Motivation;240
6.2.3; 2 Measuring performance of professional services: Mark-ups and allocative efficiency;243
6.2.3.1; 2.1 Mark-ups;243
6.2.3.2; 2.2 Allocation of productive resources;244
6.2.4; 3 Product market regulations and impact of reforms;247
6.2.4.1; 4 Potential impact of structural reforms: Closing-the-policy-gap approach;251
6.2.4.1.1; (i) Regulation and mark-ups;252
6.2.4.1.2; (ii) Regulation and allocative efficiency;254
6.2.5; 5 Economy-wide effects: Simulations with QUEST;256
6.2.6; 6 Concluding remarks;259
6.2.7; References;261
6.3; V.3 Discussion;263
6.3.1; Erik Canton;266
6.3.2; Oliver Arentz;267
7; VI Conclusions;268
