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No. 105 | 01 Jan 1991 |
Savings Trends and Measurement Issues
Saving has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Research has focused on questions about its adequacy, determinants and measurement. This paper considers the latter issue. The main trends in world-wide and OECD-area saving over the last two... |
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No. 104 | 01 Jun 1991 |
GREEN - - A Multi-Region Dynamic General Equilibrium Model for Quantifying the Costs of Curbing CO2 Emissions
The OECD Secretariat has developed a multi-region, multi-sector, dynamic applied general equilibrium (AGE) model to quantify the economy-wide and global costs of policies to curb emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). The project is called the GeneRal... |
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No. 103 | 01 Jun 1991 |
The Costs of Policies to Reduce Global Emissions of CO2
The OECD Secretariat has developed a multi-region, multi-sector. dynamic general equilibrium model to quantify the economy-wide and global costs of policies to curb emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). The project is called the GeneRal Equilibrium... |
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No. 102 | 01 Jun 1991 |
Patterns of Recoveries for the Major Seven OECD Countries
The paper reviews some key characteristics of the recoveries experienced by the seven major OECD countries in the 1970s and 1980s. It presents data on the cyclical evolution of demand components, fiscal and monetary variables, labour market and... |
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No. 101 | 01 Mar 1991 |
P-Star as an Indicator of Inflationary Pressure
The P-star approach has been developed by the U.S. Federal Reserve as a new indicator of inflationary pressures. This paper assesses its usefulness for 20 OECD Member countries. Regression results are presented and in-sample tracking ability and... |
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No. 100 | 01 Apr 1991 |
Old Age Income Maintenance
The rapid increase -- over the next thirty years -- in the population share of persons above retirement age has led to a steady increase in attention paid by OECD Governments to questions concerning old age income maintenance. The attached paper... |
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No. 99 | 01 May 1991 |
The Measurement of Output and Factors of Production for the Business Sector in OECD Countries (The OECD Business Sector Database)
This paper describes a Business Sector Data Base (BSDB) for OECD countries constructed in the context of recent work of the OECD Economics and Statistics Department. It discusses many of the problems of consistency between the usual sources of... |
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No. 98 | 01 Feb 1991 |
Macroeconomic Consequences of Financial Liberalisation
This paper brings together a number of interrelated issues concerning the implications of financial liberalisation for macroeconomic outcomes. Deregulation has tended to reduce the importance of liquidity constraints within and between countries,... |
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No. 97 | 01 Feb 1991 |
Deregulation, Credit Rationing, Financial Fragility and Economic Performance
This paper is one of four in this Working Paper Series, focusing on financial liberalisation, along with those of Miller and Weller, Kupiec and Blundell-Wignall and Browne. Its main purpose is to evaluate the imperfections still affecting deregulated... |
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No. 96 | 01 Feb 1991 |
Increasing Financial Market Integration, Real Exchange Rates and Macroeconomic Adjustment
This paper is one of four in this Working Paper Series, focusing on financial liberalisation, along with those of Kupiec, Miller and Weller, and Driscoll. It examines the extent to which international financial markets have become more integrated... |
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No. 95 | 01 Feb 1991 |
Financial Liberalisation, Asset Prices and Exchange Rates
This paper is one of four in this Working Paper Series, focusing on financial liberalisation, along with those of Kupiec, Driscoll and Blundell-Wignall and Browne. It surveys recent work, both theoretical and empirical, on the question of market... |
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No. 94 | 01 Feb 1991 |
Financial Liberalisation and International Trends in Stock, Corporate Bond and Foreign Exchange Market Volatilities
This paper is one of four in this Working Paper series, focusing on financial liberalisation, along with those by Miller and Weller, Driscoll, and Blundell-Wignall and Browne. It examines the historical volatilities of stock, bond and foreign... |
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No. 93 | 01 Feb 1991 |
A Macroeconomic Model for Debt Analysis of the Latin America Region and Debt Accounting Models for the Highly Indebted Countries
During the 1980s, following the Mexican payments crisis of August 1982, a number of debt "plans" and "strategies" have been introduced, but overall progress in resolving the situation has been slow. This paper results from a project to investigate... |
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No. 92 | 01 Feb 1991 |
Unemployment Persistence and Insider-Outsider Forces in Wage Determination
The rise in European unemployment has inspired much new research on the causes and mechanisms of unemployment, analogous to the interest devoted to unemployment in the 1930s. The new research has to a large extent focused on wage-setting behaviour,... |
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No. 91 | 01 Jan 1991 |
Infrastructure and Private-Sector Productivity
A recent study by David Aschauer suggested a novel explanation for the slowdown of private-sector total factor productivity (TFP) in the United States in the early 1970s. He argues that it is due to the roughly contemporaneous slowdown in the rate of... |
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No. 90 | 01 Jan 1991 |
The Public Sector
Since the early 1980s, most OECD countries have embarked on medium-term strategies to restore greater balance to the public finances and to wind back government intervention in the economy. The attached paper examines the progress so far. It also... |
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No. 89 | 01 Dec 1990 |
A Survey of Studies of the Costs of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
This paper surveys various estimates of the macroeconomic implications of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Most available studies focus on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and are limited to the costs of such policies. The survey first examines the... |
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No. 88 | 01 Nov 1990 |
Business Investment in the OECD Economies
Investment growth in the OECD area has been higher in the second half of the 1980s than in the 1970s. However, the ratio of net investment to GDP has remained low by past cyclical standards. This paper first reviews the evolution of business-sector... |
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No. 87 | 01 Nov 1990 |
The "Puzzle" of Wage Moderation in the 1980s
In the 1980s, real consumption wages fell relative to labour efficiency in OECD countries, although there has been some pressure on wages recently. The persistent moderation of wages was due to labour-market slack, as well as rising non-wage labour... |
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No. 86 | 01 Oct 1990 |
Modelling Wages and Prices for the Smaller OECD Countries
This paper presents work on wage/price blocks for the smaller OECD countries which has been implemented in OECD's world econometric model, INTERLINK. The paper discusses theoretical, statistical and practical aspects of the estimation of business... |
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Savings Trends and Measurement Issues
Jørgen Elmeskov, Jeffrey Shafer and Warren Tease
01 Jan 1991
Saving has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Research has focused on questions about its adequacy, determinants and measurement. This paper considers the latter issue. The main trends in world-wide and OECD-area saving over the last two...
GREEN - - A Multi-Region Dynamic General Equilibrium Model for Quantifying the Costs of Curbing CO2 Emissions
Jean-Marc Burniaux, John P. Martin, Giuseppe Nicoletti and Joaquim Oliveira Martins
01 Jun 1991
The OECD Secretariat has developed a multi-region, multi-sector, dynamic applied general equilibrium (AGE) model to quantify the economy-wide and global costs of policies to curb emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). The project is called the GeneRal...
The Costs of Policies to Reduce Global Emissions of CO2
Jean-Marc Burniaux, John P. Martin, Giuseppe Nicoletti and Joaquim Oliveira Martins
01 Jun 1991
The OECD Secretariat has developed a multi-region, multi-sector. dynamic general equilibrium model to quantify the economy-wide and global costs of policies to curb emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). The project is called the GeneRal Equilibrium...
Patterns of Recoveries for the Major Seven OECD Countries
Marco Mira d'Ercole
01 Jun 1991
The paper reviews some key characteristics of the recoveries experienced by the seven major OECD countries in the 1970s and 1980s. It presents data on the cyclical evolution of demand components, fiscal and monetary variables, labour market and...
P-Star as an Indicator of Inflationary Pressure
Peter Hoeller and Pierre Poret
01 Mar 1991
The P-star approach has been developed by the U.S. Federal Reserve as a new indicator of inflationary pressures. This paper assesses its usefulness for 20 OECD Member countries. Regression results are presented and in-sample tracking ability and...
Old Age Income Maintenance
Murray Petrie and Peter Sturm
01 Apr 1991
The rapid increase -- over the next thirty years -- in the population share of persons above retirement age has led to a steady increase in attention paid by OECD Governments to questions concerning old age income maintenance. The attached paper...
The Measurement of Output and Factors of Production for the Business Sector in OECD Countries (The OECD Business Sector Database)
Mark Keese, Gérard Salou and Pete Richardson
01 May 1991
This paper describes a Business Sector Data Base (BSDB) for OECD countries constructed in the context of recent work of the OECD Economics and Statistics Department. It discusses many of the problems of consistency between the usual sources of...
Macroeconomic Consequences of Financial Liberalisation
Adrian Blundell-Wignall and Frank Browne
01 Feb 1991
This paper brings together a number of interrelated issues concerning the implications of financial liberalisation for macroeconomic outcomes. Deregulation has tended to reduce the importance of liquidity constraints within and between countries,...
Deregulation, Credit Rationing, Financial Fragility and Economic Performance
Michael Driscoll
01 Feb 1991
This paper is one of four in this Working Paper Series, focusing on financial liberalisation, along with those of Miller and Weller, Kupiec and Blundell-Wignall and Browne. Its main purpose is to evaluate the imperfections still affecting deregulated...
Increasing Financial Market Integration, Real Exchange Rates and Macroeconomic Adjustment
Adrian Blundell-Wignall and Frank Browne
01 Feb 1991
This paper is one of four in this Working Paper Series, focusing on financial liberalisation, along with those of Kupiec, Miller and Weller, and Driscoll. It examines the extent to which international financial markets have become more integrated...
Financial Liberalisation, Asset Prices and Exchange Rates
Marcus Miller and Paul Weller
01 Feb 1991
This paper is one of four in this Working Paper Series, focusing on financial liberalisation, along with those of Kupiec, Driscoll and Blundell-Wignall and Browne. It surveys recent work, both theoretical and empirical, on the question of market...
Financial Liberalisation and International Trends in Stock, Corporate Bond and Foreign Exchange Market Volatilities
Paul Kupiec
01 Feb 1991
This paper is one of four in this Working Paper series, focusing on financial liberalisation, along with those by Miller and Weller, Driscoll, and Blundell-Wignall and Browne. It examines the historical volatilities of stock, bond and foreign...
A Macroeconomic Model for Debt Analysis of the Latin America Region and Debt Accounting Models for the Highly Indebted Countries
Peter Dittus and Paul S. O'Brien
01 Feb 1991
During the 1980s, following the Mexican payments crisis of August 1982, a number of debt "plans" and "strategies" have been introduced, but overall progress in resolving the situation has been slow. This paper results from a project to investigate...
Unemployment Persistence and Insider-Outsider Forces in Wage Determination
Bertil Holmlund
01 Feb 1991
The rise in European unemployment has inspired much new research on the causes and mechanisms of unemployment, analogous to the interest devoted to unemployment in the 1930s. The new research has to a large extent focused on wage-setting behaviour,...
Infrastructure and Private-Sector Productivity
Robert Ford and Pierre Poret
01 Jan 1991
A recent study by David Aschauer suggested a novel explanation for the slowdown of private-sector total factor productivity (TFP) in the United States in the early 1970s. He argues that it is due to the roughly contemporaneous slowdown in the rate of...
The Public Sector
Howard Oxley, Maria Maher, John P. Martin, Giuseppe Nicoletti and P. Alonso-Gamo
01 Jan 1991
Since the early 1980s, most OECD countries have embarked on medium-term strategies to restore greater balance to the public finances and to wind back government intervention in the economy. The attached paper examines the progress so far. It also...
A Survey of Studies of the Costs of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Peter Hoeller, Andrew Dean and Jon Nicolaisen
01 Dec 1990
This paper surveys various estimates of the macroeconomic implications of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Most available studies focus on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and are limited to the costs of such policies. The survey first examines the...
Business Investment in the OECD Economies
Robert Ford and Pierre Poret
01 Nov 1990
Investment growth in the OECD area has been higher in the second half of the 1980s than in the 1970s. However, the ratio of net investment to GDP has remained low by past cyclical standards. This paper first reviews the evolution of business-sector...
The "Puzzle" of Wage Moderation in the 1980s
Pierre Poret
01 Nov 1990
In the 1980s, real consumption wages fell relative to labour efficiency in OECD countries, although there has been some pressure on wages recently. The persistent moderation of wages was due to labour-market slack, as well as rising non-wage labour...
Modelling Wages and Prices for the Smaller OECD Countries
Kenichi Kawasaki, Peter Hoeller and Pierre Poret
01 Oct 1990
This paper presents work on wage/price blocks for the smaller OECD countries which has been implemented in OECD's world econometric model, INTERLINK. The paper discusses theoretical, statistical and practical aspects of the estimation of business...