France : Selected Issues.

The paper identifies France's structural reforms that would yield the largest competitiveness gains based on macro-empirical evidence, and reviews signs of potential gains from a deregulation of the services sector. It is expected that completing deregulation in the services sector would benefi...

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Autor Corporativo: International Monetary Fund. European Dept
Formato: Revista
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013.
Colección:IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2013/003
Acceso en línea:Full text available on IMF
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Sumario:The paper identifies France's structural reforms that would yield the largest competitiveness gains based on macro-empirical evidence, and reviews signs of potential gains from a deregulation of the services sector. It is expected that completing deregulation in the services sector would benefit the entire French economy, by boosting productivity and exports. Econometric results have estimated the impact of reducing the labor taxation and labor market rigidities and of increasing innovation to the average level of other advanced countries.
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ISSN:1934-7685
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