OECD - EU Workshop
Pro-competition regulatory reforms: design, assessment, and impact using the PMR indicators
�� 27 March 2023 – 14:00 to 17:30
Virtually via Zoom
AGENDA
14.00 -14.10
Introductory remarks
Luiz de Mello, Director, Policy Studies Branch, Economics Department, OECD
Geraldine Mahieu, Director, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission
14.10 - 14.30
Key-note speaker: Giuseppe Nicoletti, Senior Fellow at Luiss Lab of European Economics and former Head of Structural Policy Analysis Division, Economics Department, OECD.
PMR indicators at 25 years
Session 1: Using the PMR indicators to assess the impact of pro-competitive regulation on macroeconomic variables
Chair: Alessandro Turrini, Head of Economics of Structural Reforms and Investment Unit, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission
1. Balázs Egert (Senior Economist, Economics Department, OECD):
The Quantification of Structural Reforms: The Role of PMR
14.30 - 15.40
2. Sara Calligaris (Economist, Productivity Innovation and Entrepreneurship Division, Science Technology and Innovation Directorate, OECD) and Peter Gal (Senior Economist, Structural Policy Analysis Division, Economics Department, OECD)
The role of product market regulation for business dynamics and productivity: evidence from firmlevel data
3. Paloma López García (Adviser, Directorate General Economics, European Central Bank)
The use of the PMR indicators at the European Central Bank: policy and research
15.40 – 15.50 Break
Session 2 – Using the PMR indicators to drive reforms in countries
15.50 - 17.25
Chair: Alain de Serres, Director, Policy Studies Branch, Economics Department, OECD
1. Lukas Vogel (Deputy Head of Unit, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European
17.25 - 17.30
Commission)
Product market regulation in the European Semester
2. Federica Maiorano (Senior Competition Expert, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD) and Tim Bulman (Senior Economist, Economics Department, OECD).
Greece’s experience: PMR indicators as a guide for structural reforms for post-crisis prosperity
3. Carlo Stagnaro (Research Director, Istituto Bruno Leoni)
The Italian experience: designing pro-competition reforms using the PMR indicators
4. Graciela Miralles (Senior Economist, Markets and Technology Global Unit, World Bank)
The World Bank experience: identifying reform priorities
5. Alexandre Messa Peixoto da Silva (Secretario de Acompanhamento Economico, Ministry of Economy, Brazil)
The OECD PMR indicators as a tool to identify areas for reform
Q&A
Closing remarks: Cristiana Vitale, Head of the Product Market Regulation Unit, Economics Department, OECD