Improving the business regulatory environment in Poland
A competition-friendly business regulatory environment is essential for the well-functioning
of markets. It ensures that important policy goals are addressed, and market failures
tackled. However, regulation can also create barriers to the entry and expansion of
firms that may limit and distort competition and hinder the efficient allocation of
resources, negatively affecting productivity and growth. Some of these barriers are
necessary, but others may go beyond what is needed to address the policy objectives
and the market failure(s) regulation is intended to solve. This paper relies on the
last vintage of the Product Market Regulation indicators to determine to what extent
Poland’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan aims to create a more competition-friendly
business environment. The analysis suggests that only a limited number of the measures
included in the Plan may address regulatory weaknesses identified by these indicators.
Therefore, the paper suggests OECD best practices that the country could consider
to remove unnecessary regulatory barriers and boost the benefits that the investments
envisaged in the Plan could bring about.
Published on July 10, 2023
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