In economics, the product market is the marketplace where final goods or services are sold to household and the foreign sector . Focusing on the sale of finished goods, it does not include trading in raw or other intermediate materials.[1]
Related, but contrasting, terms are financial market and labour market.
Product market regulation is a term for the placing of restrictions upon the operation of the product market. According to an OECD ranking in 1998, English-speaking and Nordic countries had the least-regulated product markets in the OECD.[2] The least-regulated product markets were to be found in:
According to the OECD, indicators for product market regulation include price controls, foreign ownership barriers, and tariffs, among other things.