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No. 287 | 08 Feb 2001 |
Regulation in Services
The paper looks at patterns of regulation in service industries and explores their implications for service performance. Focusing on restrictions to market mechanisms, a map of the state of service regulation in OECD countries is provided, based on... |
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No. 286 | 08 Feb 2001 |
A Small Global Forecasting Model
This paper describes the OECD’s new small global forecasting model for the three main OECD economic regions: the United States, the euro area, and Japan. The key variables – which include output, inflation, the trade balance, and import prices – are... |
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No. 285 | 08 Feb 2001 |
Managing Public Expenditure
This paper highlights some key policy issues regarding the performance of public expenditure and proposes an analytical framework for its assessment. The framework distinguishes three economic objectives of policies in the pursuit of better... |
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No. 284 | 18 Jun 2001 |
Trends in Immigration and Economic Consequences
This paper reviews immigration trends and their economic impacts in a number of OECD countries. While migration systems present similarities across countries, institutional arrangements vary widely and impact on the size and composition of migration... |
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No. 283 | 31 Jan 2001 |
Economic Growth: The Role of Policies and Institutions
This paper discusses links between policy settings, institutions and economic growth in OECD countries on the basis of cross-country time-series regressions. The econometric approach allows short-term adjustments and convergence speeds to vary across... |
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No. 282 | 31 Jan 2001 |
Does Human Capital Matter for Growth in OECD Countries?
This paper presents empirical estimates of human-capital augmented growth equations for a panel of 21 OECD countries over the period 1971-98. It uses an improved dataset on human capital and a novel econometric technique that reconciles growth model... |
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No. 281 | 31 Jan 2001 |
The Tax System in New Zealand
New Zealand’s tax system is one of the most neutral and efficient in the OECD. Bases are generally broad and rates are moderate. The full imputation system for dividend payments works to reduce tax distortions for corporate financing decisions, while... |
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No. 280 | 21 Mar 2001 |
Contributions of Financial Systems to Growth in OECD Countries
The recent period of sustained high growth in the United States has drawn attention to its financial system and the efficiency with which it seems to be able to channel funds to new productive investment projects, particularly in hi-tech industries.... |
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No. 279 | 26 Jan 2001 |
House Prices and Economic Activity
This paper reviews the role of house prices in influencing private consumption and residential investment in OECD countries. Deregulation of the mortgage markets in most OECD countries since the 1970s has made it easier for households to borrow for... |
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No. 278 | 26 Jan 2001 |
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in the United States
This paper analyses aspects of US environmental policy, including, among others, policy on air and water quality, water supply in certain areas, climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. Particular attention is paid to certain policies in... |
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No. 277 | 25 Jan 2001 |
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Denmark
This paper analyses aspects of environmental policy in Denmark, including, among others, policy on surface water quality, clean air and support for renewable energy, waste disposal and transport policy. Environmental policies are an important... |
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No. 276 | 31 Jan 2001 |
Making Growth More Environmentally Sustainable in Germany
This document analyses German environmental policies, including, among others, discussion of air and water quality policy, use of the waste management hierarchy approach and of voluntary agreements. The German public has been highly sensitive to... |
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No. 275 | 10 Jan 2001 |
Central Control of Regional Budget
Motivated by the recent experience in the Russian Federation, this paper examines the implications of imposing central control on the budgetary activities of a subnational government. In a highly stylised multi-task principal-agent model (Holmstrom... |
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No. 274 | 19 Dec 2000 |
A Post-Mortem on Economic Outlook Projections
This paper reviews the accuracy of the OECD Economic Outlook projections — both “current year” and “year ahead” — for output growth, inflation and current account balances (as a percentage of GDP) for the major seven countries, as well as projections... |
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No. 273 | 21 Dec 2000 |
Fixed Cost, Imperfect Competition and Bias in Technology Measurement
In many industries, competition is far from perfect and managerial efficiency (or a fixed cost) varies among firms. However, traditional measurement of technological progress assumes perfect competition and no fixed cost. This paper incorporates... |
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No. 272 | 13 Dec 2000 |
Entry, Exit, and Aggregate Productivity Growth
Using plant level panel data on Korean manufacturing during the 1990-98 period, this study tries to assess the role of entry and exit in enhancing aggregate productivity, both qualitatively and quantitatively. The main findings of this study are... |
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No. 271 | 06 Dec 2000 |
The Tax System in Korea
The tax burden in Korea is among the lowest in the OECD area, mainly reflecting that the social safety net is at an early stage of development. The low tax burden implies limited tax induced economic distortions but as expenditure pressures will... |
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No. 270 | 25 Oct 2000 |
A Multi-Gas Assessment of the Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol covers emissions of a range of greenhouse gases. Yet, most attempts to quantify the economic impact of implementing the Protocol’s emission targets for the period 2008-12 have focused exclusively on CO2 emissions. This paper... |
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No. 269 | 27 Oct 2000 |
The Changing Health System in France
This paper reviews the performance of French health care system from an economic viewpoint. It also provides some policy recommendations. The health system in France is regarded as delivering high quality services, with freedom of choice and... |
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No. 268 | 12 Oct 2000 |
Inward Investment and Technical Progress in the UK Manufacturing Sector
This paper investigates the impact of direct investment by foreign-owned companies on technical progress and hence labour productivity in the UK manufacturing sector. Using an industry-level panel data set we find that foreign-owned firms have a... |
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Regulation in Services
Giuseppe Nicoletti
08 Feb 2001
The paper looks at patterns of regulation in service industries and explores their implications for service performance. Focusing on restrictions to market mechanisms, a map of the state of service regulation in OECD countries is provided, based on...
A Small Global Forecasting Model
David Rae et David Turner
08 Feb 2001
This paper describes the OECD’s new small global forecasting model for the three main OECD economic regions: the United States, the euro area, and Japan. The key variables – which include output, inflation, the trade balance, and import prices – are...
Managing Public Expenditure
Paul Atkinson et Paul van den Noord
08 Feb 2001
This paper highlights some key policy issues regarding the performance of public expenditure and proposes an analytical framework for its assessment. The framework distinguishes three economic objectives of policies in the pursuit of better...
Trends in Immigration and Economic Consequences
Jonathan Coppel, Jean-Christophe Dumont et Ignazio Visco
18 Jun 2001
This paper reviews immigration trends and their economic impacts in a number of OECD countries. While migration systems present similarities across countries, institutional arrangements vary widely and impact on the size and composition of migration...
Economic Growth: The Role of Policies and Institutions
Andrea Bassanini, Stefano Scarpetta et Philip Hemmings
31 Jan 2001
This paper discusses links between policy settings, institutions and economic growth in OECD countries on the basis of cross-country time-series regressions. The econometric approach allows short-term adjustments and convergence speeds to vary across...
Does Human Capital Matter for Growth in OECD Countries?
Andrea Bassanini et Stefano Scarpetta
31 Jan 2001
This paper presents empirical estimates of human-capital augmented growth equations for a panel of 21 OECD countries over the period 1971-98. It uses an improved dataset on human capital and a novel econometric technique that reconciles growth model...
The Tax System in New Zealand
Thomas Dalsgaard
31 Jan 2001
New Zealand’s tax system is one of the most neutral and efficient in the OECD. Bases are generally broad and rates are moderate. The full imputation system for dividend payments works to reduce tax distortions for corporate financing decisions, while...
Contributions of Financial Systems to Growth in OECD Countries
Michael Leahy, Sebastian Schich, Gert Wehinger, Florian Pelgrin et Thorsteinn Thorgeirsson
21 Mar 2001
The recent period of sustained high growth in the United States has drawn attention to its financial system and the efficiency with which it seems to be able to channel funds to new productive investment projects, particularly in hi-tech industries....
House Prices and Economic Activity
Nathalie Girouard et Sveinbjörn Blöndal
26 Jan 2001
This paper reviews the role of house prices in influencing private consumption and residential investment in OECD countries. Deregulation of the mortgage markets in most OECD countries since the 1970s has made it easier for households to borrow for...
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in the United States
Paul O’Brien
26 Jan 2001
This paper analyses aspects of US environmental policy, including, among others, policy on air and water quality, water supply in certain areas, climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. Particular attention is paid to certain policies in...
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Denmark
Paul O'Brien et Jens Høj
25 Jan 2001
This paper analyses aspects of environmental policy in Denmark, including, among others, policy on surface water quality, clean air and support for renewable energy, waste disposal and transport policy. Environmental policies are an important...
Making Growth More Environmentally Sustainable in Germany
Grant Kirkpatrick, Gernot Klepper et Robert Price
31 Jan 2001
This document analyses German environmental policies, including, among others, discussion of air and water quality policy, use of the waste management hierarchy approach and of voluntary agreements. The German public has been highly sensitive to...
Central Control of Regional Budget
John M. Litwack
10 Jan 2001
Motivated by the recent experience in the Russian Federation, this paper examines the implications of imposing central control on the budgetary activities of a subnational government. In a highly stylised multi-task principal-agent model (Holmstrom...
A Post-Mortem on Economic Outlook Projections
Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou
19 Dec 2000
This paper reviews the accuracy of the OECD Economic Outlook projections — both “current year” and “year ahead” — for output growth, inflation and current account balances (as a percentage of GDP) for the major seven countries, as well as projections...
Fixed Cost, Imperfect Competition and Bias in Technology Measurement
Kiyohiko G. Nishimura et Masato Shirai
21 Dec 2000
In many industries, competition is far from perfect and managerial efficiency (or a fixed cost) varies among firms. However, traditional measurement of technological progress assumes perfect competition and no fixed cost. This paper incorporates...
Entry, Exit, and Aggregate Productivity Growth
Chin Hee Hahn
13 Dec 2000
Using plant level panel data on Korean manufacturing during the 1990-98 period, this study tries to assess the role of entry and exit in enhancing aggregate productivity, both qualitatively and quantitatively. The main findings of this study are...
The Tax System in Korea
Thomas Dalsgaard
06 Dec 2000
The tax burden in Korea is among the lowest in the OECD area, mainly reflecting that the social safety net is at an early stage of development. The low tax burden implies limited tax induced economic distortions but as expenditure pressures will...
A Multi-Gas Assessment of the Kyoto Protocol
Jean-Marc Burniaux
25 Oct 2000
The Kyoto Protocol covers emissions of a range of greenhouse gases. Yet, most attempts to quantify the economic impact of implementing the Protocol’s emission targets for the period 2008-12 have focused exclusively on CO2 emissions. This paper...
The Changing Health System in France
Yutaka Imai, Stephane Jacobzone et Patrick Lenain
27 Oct 2000
This paper reviews the performance of French health care system from an economic viewpoint. It also provides some policy recommendations. The health system in France is regarded as delivering high quality services, with freedom of choice and...
Inward Investment and Technical Progress in the UK Manufacturing Sector
Florence Hubert et Nigel Pain
12 Oct 2000
This paper investigates the impact of direct investment by foreign-owned companies on technical progress and hence labour productivity in the UK manufacturing sector. Using an industry-level panel data set we find that foreign-owned firms have a...