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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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No. 1674 | 13 Jul 2021 |
The impact of COVID-19 on corporate fragility in the United Kingdom: Insights from a new calibrated firm-level Corporate Sector Agent-Based (CAB) Model
Covid-19 and the associated restrictions on interaction have led to an unprecedented shock to activity and firms’ balance sheets. To assess the impact, this paper applies a new large-scale firm-level simulation model calibrated to the United Kingdom... |
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No. 1673 | 06 Jul 2021 |
Enhancing digital diffusion for higher productivity in Spain
The increased adoption of digital technologies has been transforming the Spanish economy. The COVID-19 crisis is expected to speed up this process. The new digital strategy, ‘Digital Spain 2025’, features a number of ambitious objectives in a timely... |
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No. 1672 | 11 Jun 2021 |
The tortoise and the hare: The race between vaccine rollout and new COVID variants
New variants of the virus are spreading which, together with seasonal effects, are estimated to be able to raise effective reproduction numbers by up to 90%. Meanwhile, many countries are rolling out vaccination programmes, but at varying speeds.... |
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No. 1671 | 04 Jun 2021 |
Boosting employment in Finland
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic contraction and government debt build-up, the government is formulating reforms to raise employment by 80 thousand workers by 2029. Finland’s employment rate has been lagging behind the... |
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No. 1670 | 18 May 2021 |
Investing in competences and skills and reforming the labour market to create better jobs in Indonesia
Favourable demographics has boosted Indonesia’s economic growth in recent decades, but its contribution will wane over time. Skills and competences will therefore become increasingly important to raise living standards. Educational attainment has... |
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No. 1669 | 12 May 2021 |
Improving the well-being of Canadians
For many years now, a growing number of economists, policy makers, and civil society groups have pointed to the limits of using only GDP as the primary measure of national economic progress. Accordingly, a progressively greater focus has been placed... |
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No. 1668 | 07 May 2021 |
Sticky floors or glass ceilings? The role of human capital, working time flexibility and discrimination in the gender wage gap
Despite changes in social norms and policies, on average across 25 European countries, there remains a gap of around 15% in hourly earnings between similarly-qualified men and women. This raises inequality and limits growth by preventing women from... |
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No. 1667 | 26 Apr 2021 |
Greening Lithuania’s growth
This paper provides an overview on Lithuania’s environment and environmental policy. Environmental performance has improved since the mid-2000s. Greenhouse gas emissions declined and decoupled from growth over the past decade, yet per capita... |
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No. 1666 | 26 Apr 2021 |
Framework to discuss corruption in OECD Economic Surveys
The abuse of public office for private gains – discourages business dynamism, reducing investment and innovation, and weighs on growth prospects. It also undermines the equality of opportunities, distorts the income distribution and erodes trust in... |
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No. 1665 | 13 Apr 2021 |
Unleashing the full potential of the Turkish business sector
Productivity in Turkey has been growing stronger than in most peer countries since 2010 but has slowed down. Despite a remarkably entrepreneurial population, business dynamism has also been less vigorous in recent years. This working paper discusses... |
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No. 1664 | 13 Apr 2021 |
When and how do business shutdowns work? Evidence from Italy’s first COVID-19 wave
Governments around the world have adopted unprecedented policies to deal with COVID-19. This paper zooms in on business shutdowns and investigates their effectiveness in reducing mortality. We leverage highly granular death registry data for almost... |
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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...
The impact of COVID-19 on corporate fragility in the United Kingdom: Insights from a new calibrated firm-level Corporate Sector Agent-Based (CAB) Model
Sebastian Barnes, Robert Hillman, George Wharf and Duncan MacDonald
13 Jul 2021
Covid-19 and the associated restrictions on interaction have led to an unprecedented shock to activity and firms’ balance sheets. To assess the impact, this paper applies a new large-scale firm-level simulation model calibrated to the United Kingdom...
Enhancing digital diffusion for higher productivity in Spain
Yosuke Jin
06 Jul 2021
The increased adoption of digital technologies has been transforming the Spanish economy. The COVID-19 crisis is expected to speed up this process. The new digital strategy, ‘Digital Spain 2025’, features a number of ambitious objectives in a timely...
The tortoise and the hare: The race between vaccine rollout and new COVID variants
David Turner, Balázs Égert, Yvan Guillemette and Jarmila Botev
11 Jun 2021
New variants of the virus are spreading which, together with seasonal effects, are estimated to be able to raise effective reproduction numbers by up to 90%. Meanwhile, many countries are rolling out vaccination programmes, but at varying speeds....
Boosting employment in Finland
David Carey, Naomitsu Yashiro and Hyunjeong Hwang
04 Jun 2021
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic contraction and government debt build-up, the government is formulating reforms to raise employment by 80 thousand workers by 2029. Finland’s employment rate has been lagging behind the...
Investing in competences and skills and reforming the labour market to create better jobs in Indonesia
Patrice Ollivaud
18 May 2021
Favourable demographics has boosted Indonesia’s economic growth in recent decades, but its contribution will wane over time. Skills and competences will therefore become increasingly important to raise living standards. Educational attainment has...
Improving the well-being of Canadians
Peter Jarrett
12 May 2021
For many years now, a growing number of economists, policy makers, and civil society groups have pointed to the limits of using only GDP as the primary measure of national economic progress. Accordingly, a progressively greater focus has been placed...
Sticky floors or glass ceilings? The role of human capital, working time flexibility and discrimination in the gender wage gap
Gabriele Ciminelli, Cyrille Schwellnus and Balazs Stadler
07 May 2021
Despite changes in social norms and policies, on average across 25 European countries, there remains a gap of around 15% in hourly earnings between similarly-qualified men and women. This raises inequality and limits growth by preventing women from...
Greening Lithuania’s growth
Hansjörg Blöchliger and Sigita Strumskyte
26 Apr 2021
This paper provides an overview on Lithuania’s environment and environmental policy. Environmental performance has improved since the mid-2000s. Greenhouse gas emissions declined and decoupled from growth over the past decade, yet per capita...
Framework to discuss corruption in OECD Economic Surveys
Yosuke Jin
26 Apr 2021
The abuse of public office for private gains – discourages business dynamism, reducing investment and innovation, and weighs on growth prospects. It also undermines the equality of opportunities, distorts the income distribution and erodes trust in...
Unleashing the full potential of the Turkish business sector
Dennis Dlugosch, Rauf Gönenç, Yusuf Kenan Bağır, Hüzeyfe Torun and Eun Jung Kim
13 Apr 2021
Productivity in Turkey has been growing stronger than in most peer countries since 2010 but has slowed down. Despite a remarkably entrepreneurial population, business dynamism has also been less vigorous in recent years. This working paper discusses...
When and how do business shutdowns work? Evidence from Italy’s first COVID-19 wave
Gabriele Ciminelli and Sílvia Garcia-Mandicó
13 Apr 2021
Governments around the world have adopted unprecedented policies to deal with COVID-19. This paper zooms in on business shutdowns and investigates their effectiveness in reducing mortality. We leverage highly granular death registry data for almost...