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No. 327 | 15 Apr 2002 |
Increases in Business Investment Rates in OECD Countries in the 1990s
In several OECD countries, investment rates in the business sector grew strongly in the second half of the 1990s. In some cases, the strength of private investment relative to output growth had raised concerns about the risk of capital overhang and... |
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No. 326 | 08 Apr 2002 |
Sectoral Shifts in Europe and the United States
This paper sheds light on the importance of aggregation bias in the analysis of wage shares developments over time and across countries. We focus on five European countries and the United States and show that the trend decline in the aggregate wage... |
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No. 325 | 06 Mar 2002 |
Coping with Population Ageing in the Netherlands
Population ageing will reduce economic growth and increase the amount of resources that need to be transferred to the elderly, putting pressure on retirement-income- and healthcare insurance systems. The Netherlands is better placed than most OECD... |
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No. 324 | 04 Mar 2002 |
Public Spending in Italy
This paper aims to identify structural reforms for better public spending management in Italy –in turn a critical need in view of the country's high debt and tax burdens, notwithstanding significant progress in the past decade. The analysis proceeds... |
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No. 323 | 22 Feb 2002 |
Overheating in Small Euro Area Economies
This paper reviews first the fiscal policy recommendations by the EU, the IMF and the OECD for Finland, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. All these countries had inflation above the euro area average in early 2001,... |
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No. 322 | 20 Feb 2002 |
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Austria
This document analyses the economic impacts of selected environmental policies in Austria with an emphasis on the use of economic instruments and incentives versus command-and-control measures. An important theme in a federation like the Austrian is... |
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No. 321 | 12 Feb 2002 |
Health Care Reform in Japan
The health status of the Japanese is one of the best in the world. The healthcare system has no doubt contributed to this, though the current state of research in health economics does not permit the determination of the extent of such contribution.... |
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No. 320 | 08 Feb 2002 |
Enhancing Expenditure Control with a Decentralised Public Sector in Denmark
This paper analyses of some the key aspects of public expenditure policy in Denmark. The public expenditure to GDP ratio has abated markedly since the mid-1990s, reflecting both cyclical gains and the return on structural reforms. Nevertheless, the... |
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No. 319 | 07 Feb 2002 |
Options for Reforming the Finnish Tax System
This paper reviews the Finnish tax system and the scope for further tax reform. Finland is among the most egalitarian countries in the OECD and a high tax burden is required to finance the associated public spending. Nevertheless, capital and... |
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No. 318 | 22 Jan 2002 |
Product Market Regulation and Wage Premia in Europe and North America
Using new cross-country data on industry-specific product market regulations, this paper investigates the relationship between wage premia and some of the policy determinants of product market rents. Hourly wage premia in 2-digit manufacturing and... |
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No. 317 | 17 Jan 2002 |
Competition, Innovation and Productivity Growth
This paper reviews recent studies on the links between competition, innovation and productivity growth in the long run. From a long-run perspective, one can see that gains from competition-enhancing regulatory reform are likely to exceed static gains... |
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No. 316 | 16 Jan 2002 |
Labour Market Institutions, Product Market Regulation, and Innovation
In this paper we present comparative evidence from OECD countries concerning the impact of product and labour market regulations on innovation. While product and labour market policies usually aim at objectives other than innovation, they may have... |
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No. 315 | 15 Jan 2002 |
Ongoing Changes in the Business Cycle
This paper first reviews a number of stylised facts concerning OECD country business cycles over the past four decades. In general, the amplitude of business cycles has fallen, driven mainly by declining fluctuations of domestic demand. As a result,... |
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No. 314 | 01 Jan 2001 |
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in France
This document analyses certain economic aspects of environmental policy in France, focussing on greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and discharges in city air. Like most other OECD countries, France has been endeavouring for some years to make... |
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No. 313 | 17 Dec 2001 |
Increasing Efficiency and Reducing Complexity in the Tax System in the United States
There are only a few OECD Member countries with a lower tax take than the United States. Nonetheless there are a number of improvements that could help reduce the distortions that taxation creates in the economy and so boost long-run economic... |
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No. 312 | 14 Dec 2001 |
Product and Labour Markets Interactions in OECD Countries
This paper analyses several of the cross-market effects of policies aimed at influencing outcomes in product and labour markets. Focusing on subsets of OECD countries, we look at the implications of product market competition for industry wages and... |
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No. 311 | 25 Oct 2001 |
Modelling Import Responsiveness for OECD Manufactures Trade
The degree of integration and openness of OECD economies has consistently increased throughout most of the past three decades. By limiting the influence of non-economic factors, and reducing heterogeneity in economic systems, increased integration... |
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No. 310 | 15 Oct 2001 |
Trade Linkages and the Trade Matrices in the OECD Interlink Model
This paper provides a mainly graphical summary of the trade matrices underlying the OECD’s international macroeconomic model Interlink. In doing so it gives a snapshot of the geographical nature of global trading relationships, in particular between... |
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No. 309 | 05 Oct 2001 |
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Australia
This document analyses aspects of natural resource and environmental policies in Australia, focusing on water resource management, salinity and climate change mitigation. The state and central governments have not made use of their taxation powers in... |
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No. 308 | 20 Sept 2001 |
Financial Market Liberalisation, Wealth and Consumption
The past two decades have seen substantial deregulation in the financial sectors of most OECD countries. The main motivation was to improve efficiency within the financial system, but the macroeconomic implications might go beyond this objective with... |
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Increases in Business Investment Rates in OECD Countries in the 1990s
Florian Pelgrin, Sebastian Schich et Alain de Serres
15 Apr 2002
In several OECD countries, investment rates in the business sector grew strongly in the second half of the 1990s. In some cases, the strength of private investment relative to output growth had raised concerns about the risk of capital overhang and...
Sectoral Shifts in Europe and the United States
Alain de Serres, Stefano Scarpetta et Christine de la Maisonneuve
08 Apr 2002
This paper sheds light on the importance of aggregation bias in the analysis of wage shares developments over time and across countries. We focus on five European countries and the United States and show that the trend decline in the aggregate wage...
Coping with Population Ageing in the Netherlands
David Carey
06 Mar 2002
Population ageing will reduce economic growth and increase the amount of resources that need to be transferred to the elderly, putting pressure on retirement-income- and healthcare insurance systems. The Netherlands is better placed than most OECD...
Public Spending in Italy
Alexandra Bibbee et Alessandro Goglio
04 Mar 2002
This paper aims to identify structural reforms for better public spending management in Italy –in turn a critical need in view of the country's high debt and tax burdens, notwithstanding significant progress in the past decade. The analysis proceeds...
Overheating in Small Euro Area Economies
Peter Hoeller, Claude Giorno et Christine de la Maisonneuve
22 Feb 2002
This paper reviews first the fiscal policy recommendations by the EU, the IMF and the OECD for Finland, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. All these countries had inflation above the euro area average in early 2001,...
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Austria
Jens Høj et Andreas Wörgötter
20 Feb 2002
This document analyses the economic impacts of selected environmental policies in Austria with an emphasis on the use of economic instruments and incentives versus command-and-control measures. An important theme in a federation like the Austrian is...
Health Care Reform in Japan
Yutaka Imai
12 Feb 2002
The health status of the Japanese is one of the best in the world. The healthcare system has no doubt contributed to this, though the current state of research in health economics does not permit the determination of the extent of such contribution....
Enhancing Expenditure Control with a Decentralised Public Sector in Denmark
Steen Daugaard
08 Feb 2002
This paper analyses of some the key aspects of public expenditure policy in Denmark. The public expenditure to GDP ratio has abated markedly since the mid-1990s, reflecting both cyclical gains and the return on structural reforms. Nevertheless, the...
Options for Reforming the Finnish Tax System
Isabelle Joumard et Wim Suyker
07 Feb 2002
This paper reviews the Finnish tax system and the scope for further tax reform. Finland is among the most egalitarian countries in the OECD and a high tax burden is required to finance the associated public spending. Nevertheless, capital and...
Product Market Regulation and Wage Premia in Europe and North America
Sébastien Jean et Giuseppe Nicoletti
22 Jan 2002
Using new cross-country data on industry-specific product market regulations, this paper investigates the relationship between wage premia and some of the policy determinants of product market rents. Hourly wage premia in 2-digit manufacturing and...
Competition, Innovation and Productivity Growth
Sanghoon Ahn
17 Jan 2002
This paper reviews recent studies on the links between competition, innovation and productivity growth in the long run. From a long-run perspective, one can see that gains from competition-enhancing regulatory reform are likely to exceed static gains...
Labour Market Institutions, Product Market Regulation, and Innovation
Andrea Bassanini et Ekkehard Ernst
16 Jan 2002
In this paper we present comparative evidence from OECD countries concerning the impact of product and labour market regulations on innovation. While product and labour market policies usually aim at objectives other than innovation, they may have...
Ongoing Changes in the Business Cycle
Thomas Dalsgaard, Jørgen Elmeskov et Cyn-Young Park
15 Jan 2002
This paper first reviews a number of stylised facts concerning OECD country business cycles over the past four decades. In general, the amplitude of business cycles has fallen, driven mainly by declining fluctuations of domestic demand. As a result,...
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in France
Ann Vourc'h et Patrick Lenain
01 Jan 2001
This document analyses certain economic aspects of environmental policy in France, focussing on greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and discharges in city air. Like most other OECD countries, France has been endeavouring for some years to make...
Increasing Efficiency and Reducing Complexity in the Tax System in the United States
Richard Herd et Chiara Bronchi
17 Dec 2001
There are only a few OECD Member countries with a lower tax take than the United States. Nonetheless there are a number of improvements that could help reduce the distortions that taxation creates in the economy and so boost long-run economic...
Product and Labour Markets Interactions in OECD Countries
Giuseppe Nicoletti, Andrea Bassanini, Ekkehard Ernst, Sébastien Jean, Paulo Santiago et Paul Swaim
14 Dec 2001
This paper analyses several of the cross-market effects of policies aimed at influencing outcomes in product and labour markets. Focusing on subsets of OECD countries, we look at the implications of product market competition for industry wages and...
Modelling Import Responsiveness for OECD Manufactures Trade
Mara Meacci et David Turner
25 Oct 2001
The degree of integration and openness of OECD economies has consistently increased throughout most of the past three decades. By limiting the influence of non-economic factors, and reducing heterogeneity in economic systems, increased integration...
Trade Linkages and the Trade Matrices in the OECD Interlink Model
Laurence Le Fouler, Wim Suyker et Dave Turner
15 Oct 2001
This paper provides a mainly graphical summary of the trade matrices underlying the OECD’s international macroeconomic model Interlink. In doing so it gives a snapshot of the geographical nature of global trading relationships, in particular between...
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Australia
Ann Vourc'h et Robert Price
05 Oct 2001
This document analyses aspects of natural resource and environmental policies in Australia, focusing on water resource management, salinity and climate change mitigation. The state and central governments have not made use of their taxation powers in...
Financial Market Liberalisation, Wealth and Consumption
Laurence Boone, Nathalie Girouard et Isabelle Wanner
20 Sept 2001
The past two decades have seen substantial deregulation in the financial sectors of most OECD countries. The main motivation was to improve efficiency within the financial system, but the macroeconomic implications might go beyond this objective with...