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No. 31 | 04 Feb 2022 |
A framework to decarbonise the economy
Global progress towards tackling climate change is lagging. This paper puts forward a framework to design comprehensive decarbonisation strategies while promoting growth and social inclusion. It first highlights the need of evaluating a country’s... |
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No. 32 | 06 Jun 2023 |
Aiming better: Government support for households and firms during the energy crisis
Governments rapidly provided large support to help households and firms face the 2021-22 energy price crisis. Drawing on the OECD Energy Support Measures Tracker and country case studies, this paper documents countries’ policy responses and draws... |
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No. 18 | 23 Sept 2016 |
Cardiac Arrest or Dizzy Spell
World trade growth was rapid in the two decades prior to the global financial crisis but has halved subsequently. There are both structural and cyclical reasons for the slowdown. A deceleration in the rate of trade liberalisation post 2000 was... |
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No. 7 | 01 Jul 2013 |
Choosing Fiscal Consolidation Instruments Compatible with Growth and Equity
Despite sustained efforts made in recent years to rein in budget deficits, a majority of OECD countries still face substantial public finance consolidation needs moving forward, owing to the legacy of debt accumulation before the crisis, and to the... |
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No. 21 | 06 Dec 2017 |
Confronting the zombies
Policies that spur more efficient corporate restructuring can revive productivity growth by targeting three inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of “zombie” firms (low productivity firms that would typically exit in a... |
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No. 26 | 12 Feb 2019 |
Digital Dividend: Policies to Harness the Productivity Potential of Digital Technologies
This paper presents a range of policies to enhance adoption of digital technologies and firm productivity. It quantifies illustratively the effect of policy changes by combining the results of two recent OECD analyses on the drivers of adoption and... |
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No. 17 | 22 Sept 2016 |
Does Fiscal Decentralisation Foster Regional Convergence?
Across the OECD, GDP per capita is converging. In contrast, regional disparities – or differences in GDP per capita across jurisdictions – are rising, mainly as a result of widening productivity differences. Fiscal decentralisation could help reduce... |
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No. 12 | 01 Apr 2015 |
Effects of Pro-Growth Policies on the Economic Stability of Firms, Workers and Households
Economic policies shape how much people earn but also how stable their income and jobs are. The level of earnings and the degree of economic stability both matter for well-being. Micro-level data indicate that, across OECD countries, economic... |
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No. 19 | 15 Dec 2016 |
Enhancing Economic Flexibility
Reforms that boost growth by enhancing economic flexibility often meet strong opposition related to concerns that they may imply adverse consequences for categories of workers. This study investigates how making product or labour market regulation... |
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No. 14 | 11 Jun 2015 |
Finance and Inclusive Growth
Finance is a vital ingredient for economic growth, but there can also be too much of it. This study investigates what fifty years of data for OECD countries have to say about the role of the financial sector for economic growth and income inequality... |
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No. 1 | 12 Apr 2012 |
Fiscal Consolidation
The economic and financial crisis was the catalyst for a fiscal crisis that engulfs many OECD countries. Consolidating public finances in order to address the consequences of the crisis, underlying weaknesses and also future spending pressures... |
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No. 27 | 10 Sept 2019 |
Fiscal challenges and inclusive growth in ageing societies
This paper was prepared in support of Japan’s G20 Presidency. It takes stock of ongoing and projected population ageing across G20 economies and its far-reaching implications for economic growth, productivity, inequality within and between... |
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No. 10 | 02 Jul 2014 |
Global Trade and Specialisation Patterns Over the Next 50 Years
This report presents descriptive evidence of specialisation trends and investigates empirically their causes and consequences, analysing the role of policies in this process. Then, based on the insights from the backward looking analysis, it draws... |
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No. 8 | 06 Feb 2014 |
Growth Policies and Macroeconomic Stability
Policy reforms aimed at boosting long-run growth often have side effects – positive or negative – on an economy’s vulnerability to shocks and their propagation. Macroeconomic shocks as severe and protracted as those since 2007 warrant a... |
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No. 23 | 14 Feb 2019 |
Income redistribution across OECD countries
Income inequality has increased in most OECD countries over the past two decades. This is both because market incomes (wages, dividends, interest income) have become more unequally distributed, and also because redistribution through taxes and... |
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No. 2 | 11 Jun 2012 |
International Capital Mobility
The structure of a country’s external liabilities, as well as the extent and nature of its international financial integration are key determinants of its vulnerability to financial crises. This is confirmed by new empirical analysis covering OECD... |
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No. 5 | 12 Jun 2013 |
Judicial Performance and its Determinants
Well functioning judiciaries are key to economic development. Combining existing information with a newly collected dataset, the paper provides cross-country comparisons of measures of judicial performance, and investigates how cross-country... |
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No. 4 | 28 May 2013 |
Knowledge-Based Capital, Innovation and Resource Allocation
Investment in knowledge-based capital (KBC) – assets that have no physical embodiment, such as computerised information, innovative property and economic competencies – has been rising significantly. This has implications for innovation and... |
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No. 33 | 14 Dec 2023 |
Long-term scenarios: incorporating the energy transition
This paper describes the latest update of the OECD’s long-term scenarios, which are done every 2-3 years to quantify some of the most important long-term macroeconomic trends and policy challenges facing the global economy. For the first time, this... |
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No. 3 | 09 Nov 2012 |
Looking to 2060: Long-Term Global Growth Prospects
This report presents the results from a new model for projecting growth of OECD and major non-OECD economies over the next 50 years as well as imbalances that arise. A baseline scenario assuming gradual structural reform and fiscal consolidation to... |
OECD Economic Policy Papers
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A framework to decarbonise the economy
Filippo Maria D’Arcangelo, Ilai Levin, Alessia Pagani, Mauro Pisu and Åsa Johansson
04 Feb 2022
Global progress towards tackling climate change is lagging. This paper puts forward a framework to design comprehensive decarbonisation strategies while promoting growth and social inclusion. It first highlights the need of evaluating a country’s...
Aiming better: Government support for households and firms during the energy crisis
Yannick Hemmerlé, Enes Sunel, Filippo Maria D’Arcangelo, Tobias Kruse, David Haugh, Álvaro Pina, Mauro Pisu, Cassandra Castle and Giuliana Sarcina
06 Jun 2023
Governments rapidly provided large support to help households and firms face the 2021-22 energy price crisis. Drawing on the OECD Energy Support Measures Tracker and country case studies, this paper documents countries’ policy responses and draws...
Cardiac Arrest or Dizzy Spell
David Haugh, Alexandre Kopoin, Elena Rusticelli, David Turner and Richard Dutu
23 Sept 2016
World trade growth was rapid in the two decades prior to the global financial crisis but has halved subsequently. There are both structural and cyclical reasons for the slowdown. A deceleration in the rate of trade liberalisation post 2000 was...
Choosing Fiscal Consolidation Instruments Compatible with Growth and Equity
Boris Cournède, Antoine Goujard, Álvaro Pina and Alain de Serres
01 Jul 2013
Despite sustained efforts made in recent years to rein in budget deficits, a majority of OECD countries still face substantial public finance consolidation needs moving forward, owing to the legacy of debt accumulation before the crisis, and to the...
Confronting the zombies
Dan Andrews, Müge Adalet McGowan and Valentine Millot
06 Dec 2017
Policies that spur more efficient corporate restructuring can revive productivity growth by targeting three inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of “zombie” firms (low productivity firms that would typically exit in a...
Digital Dividend: Policies to Harness the Productivity Potential of Digital Technologies
Stéphane Sorbe, Peter Gal, Giuseppe Nicoletti and Christina Timiliotis
12 Feb 2019
This paper presents a range of policies to enhance adoption of digital technologies and firm productivity. It quantifies illustratively the effect of policy changes by combining the results of two recent OECD analyses on the drivers of adoption and...
Does Fiscal Decentralisation Foster Regional Convergence?
Hansjörg Blöchliger, David Bartolini and Sibylle Stossberg
22 Sept 2016
Across the OECD, GDP per capita is converging. In contrast, regional disparities – or differences in GDP per capita across jurisdictions – are rising, mainly as a result of widening productivity differences. Fiscal decentralisation could help reduce...
Effects of Pro-Growth Policies on the Economic Stability of Firms, Workers and Households
Boris Cournède, Paula Garda, Peter Hoeller and Volker Ziemann
01 Apr 2015
Economic policies shape how much people earn but also how stable their income and jobs are. The level of earnings and the degree of economic stability both matter for well-being. Micro-level data indicate that, across OECD countries, economic...
Enhancing Economic Flexibility
Boris Cournède, Oliver Denk, Paula Garda and Peter Hoeller
15 Dec 2016
Reforms that boost growth by enhancing economic flexibility often meet strong opposition related to concerns that they may imply adverse consequences for categories of workers. This study investigates how making product or labour market regulation...
Finance and Inclusive Growth
Boris Cournède, Oliver Denk and Peter Hoeller
11 Jun 2015
Finance is a vital ingredient for economic growth, but there can also be too much of it. This study investigates what fifty years of data for OECD countries have to say about the role of the financial sector for economic growth and income inequality...
Fiscal Consolidation
Douglas Sutherland, Peter Hoeller and Rossana Merola
12 Apr 2012
The economic and financial crisis was the catalyst for a fiscal crisis that engulfs many OECD countries. Consolidating public finances in order to address the consequences of the crisis, underlying weaknesses and also future spending pressures...
Fiscal challenges and inclusive growth in ageing societies
Dorothée Rouzet, Aida Caldera Sánchez, Theodore Renault and Oliver Roehn
10 Sept 2019
This paper was prepared in support of Japan’s G20 Presidency. It takes stock of ongoing and projected population ageing across G20 economies and its far-reaching implications for economic growth, productivity, inequality within and between...
Global Trade and Specialisation Patterns Over the Next 50 Years
Åsa Johansson and Eduardo Olaberría
02 Jul 2014
This report presents descriptive evidence of specialisation trends and investigates empirically their causes and consequences, analysing the role of policies in this process. Then, based on the insights from the backward looking analysis, it draws...
Growth Policies and Macroeconomic Stability
Douglas Sutherland and Peter Hoeller
06 Feb 2014
Policy reforms aimed at boosting long-run growth often have side effects – positive or negative – on an economy’s vulnerability to shocks and their propagation. Macroeconomic shocks as severe and protracted as those since 2007 warrant a...
Income redistribution across OECD countries
Orsetta Causa, James Browne and Anna Vindics
14 Feb 2019
Income inequality has increased in most OECD countries over the past two decades. This is both because market incomes (wages, dividends, interest income) have become more unequally distributed, and also because redistribution through taxes and...
International Capital Mobility
Rudiger Ahrend, Antoine Goujard and Cyrille Schwellnus
11 Jun 2012
The structure of a country’s external liabilities, as well as the extent and nature of its international financial integration are key determinants of its vulnerability to financial crises. This is confirmed by new empirical analysis covering OECD...
Judicial Performance and its Determinants
Giuliana Palumbo, Giulia Giupponi, Luca Nunziata and Juan S. Mora-Sanguinetti
12 Jun 2013
Well functioning judiciaries are key to economic development. Combining existing information with a newly collected dataset, the paper provides cross-country comparisons of measures of judicial performance, and investigates how cross-country...
Knowledge-Based Capital, Innovation and Resource Allocation
Dan Andrews and Chiara Criscuolo
28 May 2013
Investment in knowledge-based capital (KBC) – assets that have no physical embodiment, such as computerised information, innovative property and economic competencies – has been rising significantly. This has implications for innovation and...
Long-term scenarios: incorporating the energy transition
Yvan Guillemette and Jean Château
14 Dec 2023
This paper describes the latest update of the OECD’s long-term scenarios, which are done every 2-3 years to quantify some of the most important long-term macroeconomic trends and policy challenges facing the global economy. For the first time, this...
Looking to 2060: Long-Term Global Growth Prospects
Åsa Johansson, Yvan Guillemette, Fabrice Murtin, David Turner, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Christine de la Maisonneuve, Guillaume Bousquet and Francesca Spinelli
09 Nov 2012
This report presents the results from a new model for projecting growth of OECD and major non-OECD economies over the next 50 years as well as imbalances that arise. A baseline scenario assuming gradual structural reform and fiscal consolidation to...