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No. 307 | 17 Sept 2001 |
The Economic Integration of Germany's New Länder
The economic integration of the eastern German states has progressed rapidly in many respects. The infrastructure has been rapidly built up and modernised. A strong trend to modernise the business capital stock has been established, aided by... |
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No. 306 | 06 Sept 2001 |
Standard Shocks in the OECD Interlink Model
One of the OECD Economic Department’s key vehicles for analysing effects and international spillovers of macroeconomic policy as well as assessing risks to the global outlook is the macroeconometric model, INTERLINK. In the context of the... |
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No. 305 | 19 Sept 2001 |
Fiscal Implications of Ageing
This paper provides new projections on the fiscal impact of age-related spending for OECD countries over the next half century. These results are based on national models using an agreed upon set of assumptions about macroeconomic and demographic... |
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No. 304 | 03 Aug 2001 |
The Width of the Intra-European Economic Borders
This paper first provides a brief overview of the literature on market segmentation and then presents an empirical exercise that sheds more light on the significance of border effects across European countries. The literature suggests that... |
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No. 303 | 17 Jul 2001 |
Surveillance of Tax Policies
Taxation is inevitable in modern economies to finance public spending, which is aimed at meeting fundamental economic and social objectives. However, efficiency losses associated with taxation need to be taken into account when the cost and benefits... |
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No. 302 | 10 Jul 2001 |
Reforming the Tax System in Portugal
The Portuguese tax system has developed positively in the past decade. Following the 1989 tax reform, tax bases have been broadened and statutory tax rates lowered. The overall tax burden is not high by international comparison and the tax mix relies... |
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No. 301 | 29 Jun 2001 |
Tax Systems in European Union Countries
The tax-to-GDP ratio rose steadily in most EU countries up to the late 1990s, largely reflecting a sustained expansion of public sector commitments to welfare provision. Since the late 1990s, many EU countries have cut tax rates. However, the tax... |
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No. 300 | 20 Jun 2001 |
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Belgium
This document analyses aspects of environmental policy in Belgium. Some specific examples are drawn from policies on water in the different regions that make up the Belgian Federation (to whom much environmental policy is delegated), and transport... |
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No. 299 | 14 Jun 2001 |
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Poland
This paper reviews several aspects of Poland’s environmental policies. Its main finding is that substantial progress has been made in dealing with the environmentally unfriendly legacy from the past. Poland has successfully combined emission permits... |
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No. 298 | 11 Jun 2001 |
Tracking the Euro
During the first two years of monetary union, the euro's weakness surprised most market participants. Explanations proliferated ranging from fundamentals such as differences in growth prospects to psychological factors such as herd behaviour, but no... |
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No. 297 | 07 Jun 2001 |
Firm Dynamics and Productivity Growth
This paper surveys recent empirical studies exploring aggregate productivity growth based on firm dynamics, focusing on micro-data from OECD countries. Aggregate productivity growth can be analysed as a sum of two separate processes. i) Changes in... |
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No. 296 | 17 May 2001 |
How Should Norway Respond to Ageing?
Norway, like most OECD countries, will experience a significant ageing of its population, although it will be less dramatic. Moreover, it starts from an enviable position: employment rates of older people are among the highest in the OECD, pension... |
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No. 295 | 18 May 2001 |
How Will Ageing Affect Finland?
In Finland, as in most OECD countries, the ageing of the population is one of the major long-term policy challenges. This paper first explores the scale of the demographic changes in Finland, the relevant institutions and their effect on the decision... |
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No. 294 | 14 May 2001 |
Sectoral Regulatory Reforms in Italy
This paper discusses product market regulatory reforms in Italy over the past decade. Special attention is given to the underlying macroeconomic context for sectoral reforms and the role played by such reforms in consolidating the gains of... |
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No. 293 | 09 May 2001 |
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth
Clean air, clean water, fewer toxic emissions and less household waste are among the key environmental policy objectives that most OECD governments have been pursuing over the past three decades. This effort to take more account of the environmental... |
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No. 292 | 03 May 2001 |
Increasing Simplicity, Neutrality and Sustainability
This paper analyses the possibilities for reforming the Icelandic tax system. It puts the current tax structure in its historic context, showing that there has been a steady movement towards simplification. The personal income tax has a lower than... |
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No. 291 | 19 Apr 2001 |
Options for Reforming The Tax System in Greece
For many years Greece has not made a systematic effort to redesign the whole tax system. Changes to taxation have been made in a piecemeal fashion, and many of them have led to a complex and non-transparent system, characterised by narrow bases and... |
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No. 290 | 22 Mar 2001 |
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Canada
This paper analyses aspects of natural resource policy and environmental policy in Canada. In the taxation of resource-based activities, the management of water supply and the Atlantic fisheries management, the paper finds that there are incentives... |
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No. 289 | 08 Mar 2001 |
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Sweden
This paper analyses Sweden’s policies for addressing a range of key environmental challenges. Although Sweden has a deliberately comprehensive approach to establishing its environmental objectives and policies, some issues have received particular... |
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No. 288 | 02 Mar 2001 |
Public Spending in Mexico
Public sector reforms and a refocusing of spending, partly through privatisation, have created a leaner and more effective government in Mexico. Primary expenditure, at around 18 per cent of GDP in 1999, is less than half the average for the OECD. At... |
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The Economic Integration of Germany's New Länder
Eckhard Wurzel
17 Sept 2001
The economic integration of the eastern German states has progressed rapidly in many respects. The infrastructure has been rapidly built up and modernised. A strong trend to modernise the business capital stock has been established, aided by...
Standard Shocks in the OECD Interlink Model
Thomas Dalsgaard, Christophe André et Pete Richardson
06 Sept 2001
One of the OECD Economic Department’s key vehicles for analysing effects and international spillovers of macroeconomic policy as well as assessing risks to the global outlook is the macroeconometric model, INTERLINK. In the context of the...
Fiscal Implications of Ageing
Thai-Thanh Dang, Pablo Antolín et Howard Oxley
19 Sept 2001
This paper provides new projections on the fiscal impact of age-related spending for OECD countries over the next half century. These results are based on national models using an agreed upon set of assumptions about macroeconomic and demographic...
The Width of the Intra-European Economic Borders
Alain de Serres, Peter Hoeller et Christine de la Maisonneuve
03 Aug 2001
This paper first provides a brief overview of the literature on market segmentation and then presents an empirical exercise that sheds more light on the significance of border effects across European countries. The literature suggests that...
Surveillance of Tax Policies
Paul van den Noord et Chistopher Heady
17 Jul 2001
Taxation is inevitable in modern economies to finance public spending, which is aimed at meeting fundamental economic and social objectives. However, efficiency losses associated with taxation need to be taken into account when the cost and benefits...
Reforming the Tax System in Portugal
Chiara Bronchi et José C. Gomes-Santos
10 Jul 2001
The Portuguese tax system has developed positively in the past decade. Following the 1989 tax reform, tax bases have been broadened and statutory tax rates lowered. The overall tax burden is not high by international comparison and the tax mix relies...
Tax Systems in European Union Countries
Isabelle Joumard
29 Jun 2001
The tax-to-GDP ratio rose steadily in most EU countries up to the late 1990s, largely reflecting a sustained expansion of public sector commitments to welfare provision. Since the late 1990s, many EU countries have cut tax rates. However, the tax...
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Belgium
Paul O'Brien, David Carey, Jens Høj et Andreas Woergoetter
20 Jun 2001
This document analyses aspects of environmental policy in Belgium. Some specific examples are drawn from policies on water in the different regions that make up the Belgian Federation (to whom much environmental policy is delegated), and transport...
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Poland
Grzegorz Peszko et Patrick Lenain
14 Jun 2001
This paper reviews several aspects of Poland’s environmental policies. Its main finding is that substantial progress has been made in dealing with the environmentally unfriendly legacy from the past. Poland has successfully combined emission permits...
Tracking the Euro
Vincent Koen, Laurence Boone, Alain de Serres et Nicola Fuchs
11 Jun 2001
During the first two years of monetary union, the euro's weakness surprised most market participants. Explanations proliferated ranging from fundamentals such as differences in growth prospects to psychological factors such as herd behaviour, but no...
Firm Dynamics and Productivity Growth
Sanghoon Ahn
07 Jun 2001
This paper surveys recent empirical studies exploring aggregate productivity growth based on firm dynamics, focusing on micro-data from OECD countries. Aggregate productivity growth can be analysed as a sum of two separate processes. i) Changes in...
How Should Norway Respond to Ageing?
Pablo Antolín et Wim Suyker
17 May 2001
Norway, like most OECD countries, will experience a significant ageing of its population, although it will be less dramatic. Moreover, it starts from an enviable position: employment rates of older people are among the highest in the OECD, pension...
How Will Ageing Affect Finland?
Pablo Antolín, Howard Oxley et Wim Suyker
18 May 2001
In Finland, as in most OECD countries, the ageing of the population is one of the major long-term policy challenges. This paper first explores the scale of the demographic changes in Finland, the relevant institutions and their effect on the decision...
Sectoral Regulatory Reforms in Italy
Alessandro Goglio
14 May 2001
This paper discusses product market regulatory reforms in Italy over the past decade. Special attention is given to the underlying macroeconomic context for sectoral reforms and the role played by such reforms in consolidating the gains of...
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth
Paul O’Brien et Ann Vourc'h
09 May 2001
Clean air, clean water, fewer toxic emissions and less household waste are among the key environmental policy objectives that most OECD governments have been pursuing over the past three decades. This effort to take more account of the environmental...
Increasing Simplicity, Neutrality and Sustainability
Richard Herd et Thorsteinn Thorgeirsson
03 May 2001
This paper analyses the possibilities for reforming the Icelandic tax system. It puts the current tax structure in its historic context, showing that there has been a steady movement towards simplification. The personal income tax has a lower than...
Options for Reforming The Tax System in Greece
Chiara Bronchi
19 Apr 2001
For many years Greece has not made a systematic effort to redesign the whole tax system. Changes to taxation have been made in a piecemeal fashion, and many of them have led to a complex and non-transparent system, characterised by narrow bases and...
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Canada
Ann Vourc'h
22 Mar 2001
This paper analyses aspects of natural resource policy and environmental policy in Canada. In the taxation of resource-based activities, the management of water supply and the Atlantic fisheries management, the paper finds that there are incentives...
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Sweden
Deborah Roseveare
08 Mar 2001
This paper analyses Sweden’s policies for addressing a range of key environmental challenges. Although Sweden has a deliberately comprehensive approach to establishing its environmental objectives and policies, some issues have received particular...
Public Spending in Mexico
Bénédicte Larre et Marcos Bonturi
02 Mar 2001
Public sector reforms and a refocusing of spending, partly through privatisation, have created a leaner and more effective government in Mexico. Primary expenditure, at around 18 per cent of GDP in 1999, is less than half the average for the OECD. At...