Regulatory Reform in Denmark 2000 [electronic resource].
Publishing, OECD.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development StaffCorporate Author
 : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2000.
 Denmark's large welfare state and its open market economy have successfully delivered relatively high standards of living. Danish regulatory reform has proceeded with many pragmatic steps that have contributed to solid economic performance, management of economic and social adjustment to changing conditions, and improved efficiency of government services. However, sheltered sectors, including service industries, still suffer from co-operation and price fixing, contributing to high consumer prices. The competition regime is weaker than in many other countries, and so are regulatory regimes in 
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""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Table of contents""; ""Part I. OECD Review of regulatory Reform in Denmark""; ""Executive Summary""; ""Chapter 1. Regulatory Reform in Denmark""; ""Introduction""; ""Regulatory reform has aimed to curb the steady expansion of the state and to promote market competitiveness.""; ""The â€œco-operative democracyâ€? has historically been based on consensus-building between the state and interest groupsâ€?""; ""â€? and co-operation has sometimes resulted in corporatist relations between the state and the market, with both benefits and costsâ€?""
""â€? yet the Danish system demonstrates a growing adaptability that is valuable in reducing the costs of policy rigidities.""""Informality has been another hallmark of the Danish regulatory system.""; ""Box 1.1.  What is regulation and regulatory reform?""; ""The Macroeconomic Context for Regulatory Reform""; ""Denmark is a small, open, social market economy with one of the largest government sectors in the OECD.""; ""Expansion of the welfare state brought problems as well as benefits.""
""In 1993, the government introduced important labour market, fiscal and regulatory reforms, which have continued.""""Structural reforms have contributed to very strong growth and employment performance since 1993.""; ""Despite good performance, structural problems remain. Supply-side reforms can help sustain good economic performance.""; ""Figure 1.1.  Overall regulatory approaches""; ""Lack of competition has contributed to high price levels and poor productivity performance.""; ""Figure 1.2.  Comparative price performance in manufacturing and service industries""
""Figure 1.3.  X-efficiency in telecommunications""""Denmark will face new challenges to sustain economic growth and its generous social welfare system...""; ""Box 1.2.  The need for reform of public sector services: growing demand for services and climbing taxes""; ""Reforms to the Danish state began in the 1970s with improvements to public services and other structural reforms...""; ""Reforms have been initiated in several infrastructure sectors, but implementation has just begun.""; ""Box 1.3.  Improving efficiency and service quality in the Danish public sector""
""Outsourcing of operational services by the public sector as part of a larger programme to improve public sector performance..""""Table 1.1.  Extent of contracting our in Denmark""; ""Box 1.4.  Contracting out in Denmark""; ""Table 1.2.  Reform of sectoral economic regulations in Denmark (by mid1999)""; ""Table 1.3.  Regulatory reform in selected service sectors""; ""Economic Impacts of Sectoral Regulatory Reform""; ""Except in telecommunications, introduction of competition is too recent or partial to have had much impact...""; ""Box 1.5.  Economic analysis of regulatory reform in Denmark""
""Changes in productivity performance vary with the degree of competition.""
 Denmark's large welfare state and its open market economy have successfully delivered relatively high standards of living. Danish regulatory reform has proceeded with many pragmatic steps that have contributed to solid economic performance, management of economic and social adjustment to changing conditions, and improved efficiency of government services. However, sheltered sectors, including service industries, still suffer from co-operation and price fixing, contributing to high consumer prices. The competition regime is weaker than in many other countries, and so are regulatory regimes in 
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