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No. 1694 | 14 Dec 2021 |
Constraints and demands on public finances: Considerations of resilient fiscal policy
Over the past several decades, public debt has increased substantially in many OECD countries, particularly in the aftermath of recessions. The extent of this increase and the resulting debt levels varied across countries, partly reflecting... |
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No. 1693 | 14 Dec 2021 |
Mortgage finance across OECD countries
The landscapes of housing loan markets vary considerably across OECD countries, reflecting differences in preferences and policy settings. This paper first draws a topography of disparities in mortgage structure, documenting considerable variation... |
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No. 1692 | 01 Dec 2021 |
Labour market transitions across OECD countries: Stylised facts
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of patterns and trends of worker transitions across European countries and the United States, with an emphasis on differences across socio-economic groups. Understanding labour market transitions is... |
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No. 1691 | 01 Dec 2021 |
Migration, housing and regional disparities: A gravity model of inter-regional migration with an application to selected OECD countries
Inter-regional migration – the movements of the population from one region to another within the same country – can be an important mechanism of spatial economic adjustment, affecting regional demographic and growth patterns. This paper examines the... |
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No. 1690 | 30 Nov 2021 |
Strengthening Italy’s public sector effectiveness
Raising the effectiveness of Italy’s public sector is more urgent than ever. It will be key to revive investment and productivity and improve access to quality public services for the most vulnerable. The quality of public goods and services is... |
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No. 1689 | 19 Nov 2021 |
Keeping regional inequality in check in Sweden
Regional inequality is low in Sweden compared to most other OECD countries, but has been rising over the past decades, fuelling discontent in parts of the country, whose inhabitants feel left behind. The younger population is increasingly... |
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No. 1688 | 19 Nov 2021 |
Regional differences in productivity in Sweden: Insights from OECD regions
Regional inequality has increased in Sweden over the past decades, albeit from a low level. While redistribution and other public policies can narrow regional gaps in income, well-being and access to services, productivity growth is key to... |
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No. 1687 | 04 Nov 2021 |
From hibernation to reallocation: Loan guarantees and their implications for post-COVID-19 productivity
The paper analyses the role of loan guarantee programmes following the COVID-19 outbreak in alleviating firm distress as well as their broader impacts on productivity via reallocation, relying on a simulation model and econometric estimations. The... |
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No. 1686 | 04 Nov 2021 |
Fostering innovation in Iceland for the digital era
Iceland is an innovative country, but has untapped innovation potential. Strengthening innovation, especially in the ICT area, is crucial for strong productivity growth and performance in an increasingly digitalised world, as well as a sustained... |
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No. 1685 | 05 Oct 2021 |
China’s outward direct investment and its impact on the domestic economy
Overseas direct investment by Chinese firms increased eight fold over the past decade, making the country as an important investor in stock terms as Japan. Investing in leasing and business services appears to make up nearly half of China’s ODI stock... |
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No. 1684 | 05 Oct 2021 |
Making digital transformation work for all in Chile
The sanitary crisis, created by the outbreak COVID-19, is accelerating Chile’s digital transformation, which has seen a surge in e-learning, streaming, online shopping and marketing and teleworking. The digital transformation has the potential to... |
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No. 1683 | 05 Oct 2021 |
Welcome to the (digital) jungle: Measuring online platform diffusion
Despite the rising importance and economy-wide effects of online platforms, the paucity of cross-country comparable data still hampers understanding of the structural and policy determinants of their diffusion. This study contributes to the... |
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No. 1682 | 05 Oct 2021 |
Are online platforms killing the offline star? Platform diffusion and the productivity of traditional firms
Online platform use has grown remarkably in the last decade. Despite this, our understanding of its implications for economic outcomes is scarce and often limited to case studies and advanced countries. Using a newly built harmonised international... |
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No. 1681 | 28 Sept 2021 |
Mind the financing gap: Enhancing the contribution of intangible assets to productivity
Intangible assets are an important driver of productivity and ultimately output growth. Yet, despite their aggregate rise in the past decades, productivity has continued to grow modestly in the majority of OECD countries. This is in part because many... |
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No. 1680 | 08 Sept 2021 |
The impact of digitalisation on productivity: Firm-level evidence from the Netherlands
This paper analyses the role of intangibles and digital adoption for firm-level productivity in the Netherlands drawing on a newly constructed panel data set of Dutch enterprises. It provides robust evidence on productivity effects of intangibles and... |
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No. 1679 | 13 Aug 2021 |
The laws of attraction: Economic drivers of inter-regional migration, housing costs and the role of policies
This paper sheds light on inter-regional migration, housing and the role of policies, drawing on a new comparative cross-country approach. The results show that OECD countries exhibit stark variation in both levels and trends in inter-regional... |
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No. 1678 | 13 Aug 2021 |
The economic costs of restricting international mobility
COVID-19 related travel restrictions, including complete border closures, have been one of the first containment measures to be implemented by many countries and have been continuously adjusted according to the epidemiological situation in departure... |
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No. 1677 | 22 Jul 2021 |
The COVID-19 shock and productivity-enhancing reallocation in Australia: Real-time evidence from Single Touch Payroll
The consequences of the pandemic for potential output will partly hinge on its impact on high productivity firms, and more generally the ongoing process of productivity-enhancing reallocation – the rate at which scarce resources are reallocated from... |
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No. 1676 | 22 Jul 2021 |
COVID-19, productivity and reallocation: Timely evidence from three OECD countries
The longer run consequences of the pandemic will partly hinge on its impact on high productivity firms, and the ongoing process of labour reallocation from low to high productivity firms. While Schumpeter (1939) proposed that recessions can... |
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No. 1675 | 13 Jul 2021 |
A new firm-level model of corporate sector interactions and fragility: The Corporate Agent-Based (CAB) model
This paper develops a new large-scale firm-level simulation model, the Corporate Sector Agent-Based (CAB) Model, which is applied to analyse the COVID-19 shock and policy options in Barnes, Hillman, MacDonald and Wharf (2021). Agent-based models... |
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- ISSN: 18151973 (online)
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Constraints and demands on public finances: Considerations of resilient fiscal policy
Łukasz Rawdanowicz, Sébastien Turban, Jörg Haas, David Crowe and Valentine Millot
14 Dec 2021
Over the past several decades, public debt has increased substantially in many OECD countries, particularly in the aftermath of recessions. The extent of this increase and the resulting debt levels varied across countries, partly reflecting...
Mortgage finance across OECD countries
Frank van Hoenselaar, Boris Cournède, Federica De Pace and Volker Ziemann
14 Dec 2021
The landscapes of housing loan markets vary considerably across OECD countries, reflecting differences in preferences and policy settings. This paper first draws a topography of disparities in mortgage structure, documenting considerable variation...
Labour market transitions across OECD countries: Stylised facts
Orsetta Causa, Nhung Luu and Michael Abendschein
01 Dec 2021
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of patterns and trends of worker transitions across European countries and the United States, with an emphasis on differences across socio-economic groups. Understanding labour market transitions is...
Migration, housing and regional disparities: A gravity model of inter-regional migration with an application to selected OECD countries
Maria Chiara Cavalleri, Nhung Luu and Orsetta Causa
01 Dec 2021
Inter-regional migration – the movements of the population from one region to another within the same country – can be an important mechanism of spatial economic adjustment, affecting regional demographic and growth patterns. This paper examines the...
Strengthening Italy’s public sector effectiveness
Tim Bulman
30 Nov 2021
Raising the effectiveness of Italy’s public sector is more urgent than ever. It will be key to revive investment and productivity and improve access to quality public services for the most vulnerable. The quality of public goods and services is...
Keeping regional inequality in check in Sweden
Christophe André, Jinwoan Beom, Mathilde Pak and Axel Purwin
19 Nov 2021
Regional inequality is low in Sweden compared to most other OECD countries, but has been rising over the past decades, fuelling discontent in parts of the country, whose inhabitants feel left behind. The younger population is increasingly...
Regional differences in productivity in Sweden: Insights from OECD regions
Christophe André and Mathilde Pak
19 Nov 2021
Regional inequality has increased in Sweden over the past decades, albeit from a low level. While redistribution and other public policies can narrow regional gaps in income, well-being and access to services, productivity growth is key to...
From hibernation to reallocation: Loan guarantees and their implications for post-COVID-19 productivity
Lilas Demmou and Guido Franco
04 Nov 2021
The paper analyses the role of loan guarantee programmes following the COVID-19 outbreak in alleviating firm distress as well as their broader impacts on productivity via reallocation, relying on a simulation model and econometric estimations. The...
Fostering innovation in Iceland for the digital era
Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou and Eunha Cho
04 Nov 2021
Iceland is an innovative country, but has untapped innovation potential. Strengthening innovation, especially in the ICT area, is crucial for strong productivity growth and performance in an increasingly digitalised world, as well as a sustained...
China’s outward direct investment and its impact on the domestic economy
Margit Molnar, Ting Yan and Yusha Li
05 Oct 2021
Overseas direct investment by Chinese firms increased eight fold over the past decade, making the country as an important investor in stock terms as Japan. Investing in leasing and business services appears to make up nearly half of China’s ODI stock...
Making digital transformation work for all in Chile
Paula Garda
05 Oct 2021
The sanitary crisis, created by the outbreak COVID-19, is accelerating Chile’s digital transformation, which has seen a surge in e-learning, streaming, online shopping and marketing and teleworking. The digital transformation has the potential to...
Welcome to the (digital) jungle: Measuring online platform diffusion
Hélia Costa, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Mauro Pisu and Christina von Rueden
05 Oct 2021
Despite the rising importance and economy-wide effects of online platforms, the paucity of cross-country comparable data still hampers understanding of the structural and policy determinants of their diffusion. This study contributes to the...
Are online platforms killing the offline star? Platform diffusion and the productivity of traditional firms
Hélia Costa, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Mauro Pisu and Christina von Rueden
05 Oct 2021
Online platform use has grown remarkably in the last decade. Despite this, our understanding of its implications for economic outcomes is scarce and often limited to case studies and advanced countries. Using a newly built harmonised international...
Mind the financing gap: Enhancing the contribution of intangible assets to productivity
Lilas Demmou and Guido Franco
28 Sept 2021
Intangible assets are an important driver of productivity and ultimately output growth. Yet, despite their aggregate rise in the past decades, productivity has continued to grow modestly in the majority of OECD countries. This is in part because many...
The impact of digitalisation on productivity: Firm-level evidence from the Netherlands
Martin Borowiecki, Jon Pareliussen, Daniela Glocker, Eun Jung Kim, Michael Polder and Iryna Rud
08 Sept 2021
This paper analyses the role of intangibles and digital adoption for firm-level productivity in the Netherlands drawing on a newly constructed panel data set of Dutch enterprises. It provides robust evidence on productivity effects of intangibles and...
The laws of attraction: Economic drivers of inter-regional migration, housing costs and the role of policies
Orsetta Causa, Michael Abendschein and Maria Chiara Cavalleri
13 Aug 2021
This paper sheds light on inter-regional migration, housing and the role of policies, drawing on a new comparative cross-country approach. The results show that OECD countries exhibit stark variation in both levels and trends in inter-regional...
The economic costs of restricting international mobility
Elena Rusticelli and David Turner
13 Aug 2021
COVID-19 related travel restrictions, including complete border closures, have been one of the first containment measures to be implemented by many countries and have been continuously adjusted according to the epidemiological situation in departure...
The COVID-19 shock and productivity-enhancing reallocation in Australia: Real-time evidence from Single Touch Payroll
Dan Andrews, Jonathan Hambur and Elif Bahar
22 Jul 2021
The consequences of the pandemic for potential output will partly hinge on its impact on high productivity firms, and more generally the ongoing process of productivity-enhancing reallocation – the rate at which scarce resources are reallocated from...
COVID-19, productivity and reallocation: Timely evidence from three OECD countries
Dan Andrews, Andrew Charlton and Angus Moore
22 Jul 2021
The longer run consequences of the pandemic will partly hinge on its impact on high productivity firms, and the ongoing process of labour reallocation from low to high productivity firms. While Schumpeter (1939) proposed that recessions can...
A new firm-level model of corporate sector interactions and fragility: The Corporate Agent-Based (CAB) model
Robert Hillman, Sebastian Barnes, George Wharf and Duncan MacDonald
13 Jul 2021
This paper develops a new large-scale firm-level simulation model, the Corporate Sector Agent-Based (CAB) Model, which is applied to analyse the COVID-19 shock and policy options in Barnes, Hillman, MacDonald and Wharf (2021). Agent-based models...