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No. 260 | 12 Oct 2000 |
Summary of an Informal Workshop on the Causes of Economic Growth
This paper provides a summary of an OECD workshop on the causes of economic growth, held 6-7 July 2000. The topics covered include the recent growth resurgence in the United States, the potential importance of ICT and the Internet, and the part... |
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No. 259 | 13 Oct 2000 |
Knowledge, Technology and Economic Growth
In this paper we present an international comparison of growth trends in the OECD countries, with a special attention to developments in labour productivity - allowing for human capital accumulation – and multifactor productivity (MFP) - allowing for... |
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No. 258 | 02 Oct 2000 |
Average Effective Tax Rates on Capital, Labour and Consumption
Over the past 15 years, tax reforms have profoundly changed the shape of OECD tax systems and rekindled interest in measuring effective tax burdens. Indeed, in order to understand past reforms or to evaluate the tax policies of particular countries,... |
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No. 257 | 21 Sept 2000 |
The Health Care System in Poland
This paper reviews the performance of Polish health care system from an economic perspective. High on the reform agenda of the government for several years, a new national health insurance system entered into force on 1 January 1999. This reform... |
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No. 256 | 29 Aug 2000 |
Public Expenditure Reform
Health services are largely tax-financed in the United Kingdom and account for 14 per cent of general government spending. This paper analyses how the National Health Service (NHS) has been dealing with the associated expenditure pressures in the... |
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No. 255 | 03 Aug 2000 |
Regulatory Reform in Road Freight and Retail Distribution
The purpose of this paper is to analyse regulatory developments in the road freight and retail distribution industries of OECD Member countries. For each industry, the analysis is divided into four parts. First, structural developments in the... |
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No. 254 | 03 Aug 2000 |
Regulation, Market Structure and Performance in Air Passenger Transportation
The paper uses a data base on regulation, market structure and performance in the air passenger transportation industry, to analyse the links among liberalisation, private ownership, competition, efficiency and airfares at national and route levels.... |
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No. 253 | 29 Jun 2000 |
Policy Interdependence during Economic Transition
This paper sets out a framework to analyse the interdependence of reforms in different policy areas during the transition process. It identifies four broad policy blocks related to liberalisation, stabilisation, exit and entry. The transition process... |
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No. 252 | 23 Jun 2000 |
E-Commerce
E-commerce -- an application of the Internet -- has expanded exponentially over the past 5 years and is widely expected to continue to develop rapidly in the medium-term. Much, however, remains to be done to fully exploit the opportunities offered by... |
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No. 251 | 22 Jun 2000 |
The Implementation and the Effects of Regulatory Reform
This paper reviews trends, outcomes and issues in regulatory reform in OECD countries. First, it summarises the evidence on the evolution of regulatory environments and the economy-wide and sectoral effects of reforms (including privatisation) in... |
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No. 250 | 22 Jun 2000 |
The Concept, Policy Use and Measurement of Structural Unemployment
The structural rate of unemployment and associated non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (the NAIRU) are of major importance to the analysis of macro and structural economic developments, although in practice these concepts are not well... |
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No. 249 | 20 Jun 2000 |
Options for Reforming the Spanish Tax System
The recent tax reforms have improved incentives to work and removed barriers to the internationalisation of Spanish firms, and have helped to make the tax system simpler and more neutral, especially as regards saving. However, the structure of tax... |
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No. 248 | 19 Jun 2000 |
Economic Growth in the OECD Area
This paper discusses growth performance in the OECD countries over the past two decades. Special attention is given to developments in labour productivity, allowing for human capital accumulation, and multifactor productivity (MFP), allowing for... |
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No. 247 | 19 Jun 2000 |
Economic Effects of the 1999 Turkish Earthquakes
This Working Paper presents a cross-Directorate Report on the economic, budgetary, regulatory and urbanpolicy implications of the earthquakes which struck the Marmara and Bolu areas of Turkey on 17 August and 12 November 1999. The earthquakes caused... |
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No. 246 | 13 Jun 2000 |
Policy Influences on Economic Growth in OECD Countries
This paper examines the recent literature on economic growth with a focus on policy issues and evidence relevant to OECD countries. The review begins with an overview of developments in the theory of economic growth and also comments generally on the... |
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No. 245 | 25 May 2000 |
The Tax System in the Czech Republic
This paper discusses the tax system in the Czech Republic and offers some specific suggestions for reform. Viewed in international context, the Czech system is broadly similar to those operated in other OECD countries. Like them, it exhibits a number... |
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No. 244 | 24 May 2000 |
The Tax System in Norway
This paper reviews tax policy initiatives and the scope for further reform in Norway. Norway faces the challenge of containing expenditure to at least avoid future increases in the tax burden, which is already above the OECD average. The favourable... |
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No. 243 | 11 May 2000 |
A Changing Financial Environment and the Implications for Monetary Policy
Monetary policy affects activity, and ultimately inflation, in a number of ways. The most important of these is generally considered to be through the effect of interest rates directly on the demand for goods by households and firms. However,... |
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No. 241 | 28 Apr 2000 |
The Healthcare System in Hungary
This paper examines within an international context, the healthcare system in Hungary. While the system resembles in many of its broad features those of other OECD countries, Hungarians have the lowest life expectancy in the OECD and its rate of... |
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No. 240 | 17 Apr 2000 |
Comparing Semi-Structural Methods to Estimate Unobserved Variables
Economists often seek to estimate unobserved variables, representing “equilibrium” or “expected” values of economic variables, as benchmarks against which observed, realised values of these variables may be evaluated. Such comparisons are often used... |
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Summary of an Informal Workshop on the Causes of Economic Growth
Jonathan Temple
12 Oct 2000
This paper provides a summary of an OECD workshop on the causes of economic growth, held 6-7 July 2000. The topics covered include the recent growth resurgence in the United States, the potential importance of ICT and the Internet, and the part...
Knowledge, Technology and Economic Growth
Andrea Bassanini, Stefano Scarpetta et Ignazio Visco
13 Oct 2000
In this paper we present an international comparison of growth trends in the OECD countries, with a special attention to developments in labour productivity - allowing for human capital accumulation – and multifactor productivity (MFP) - allowing for...
Average Effective Tax Rates on Capital, Labour and Consumption
David Carey et Harry Tchilinguirian
02 Oct 2000
Over the past 15 years, tax reforms have profoundly changed the shape of OECD tax systems and rekindled interest in measuring effective tax burdens. Indeed, in order to understand past reforms or to evaluate the tax policies of particular countries,...
The Health Care System in Poland
Nathalie Girouard et Yutaka Imai
21 Sept 2000
This paper reviews the performance of Polish health care system from an economic perspective. High on the reform agenda of the government for several years, a new national health insurance system entered into force on 1 January 1999. This reform...
Public Expenditure Reform
Vincent Koen
29 Aug 2000
Health services are largely tax-financed in the United Kingdom and account for 14 per cent of general government spending. This paper analyses how the National Health Service (NHS) has been dealing with the associated expenditure pressures in the...
Regulatory Reform in Road Freight and Retail Distribution
Olivier Boylaud
03 Aug 2000
The purpose of this paper is to analyse regulatory developments in the road freight and retail distribution industries of OECD Member countries. For each industry, the analysis is divided into four parts. First, structural developments in the...
Regulation, Market Structure and Performance in Air Passenger Transportation
Rauf Gönenç et Giuseppe Nicoletti
03 Aug 2000
The paper uses a data base on regulation, market structure and performance in the air passenger transportation industry, to analyse the links among liberalisation, private ownership, competition, efficiency and airfares at national and route levels....
Policy Interdependence during Economic Transition
Joaquim Oliveira Martins et Tristan Price
29 Jun 2000
This paper sets out a framework to analyse the interdependence of reforms in different policy areas during the transition process. It identifies four broad policy blocks related to liberalisation, stabilisation, exit and entry. The transition process...
E-Commerce
Jonathan Coppel
23 Jun 2000
E-commerce -- an application of the Internet -- has expanded exponentially over the past 5 years and is widely expected to continue to develop rapidly in the medium-term. Much, however, remains to be done to fully exploit the opportunities offered by...
The Implementation and the Effects of Regulatory Reform
Rauf Gönenç, Maria Maher et Giuseppe Nicoletti
22 Jun 2000
This paper reviews trends, outcomes and issues in regulatory reform in OECD countries. First, it summarises the evidence on the evolution of regulatory environments and the economy-wide and sectoral effects of reforms (including privatisation) in...
The Concept, Policy Use and Measurement of Structural Unemployment
Pete Richardson, Laurence Boone, Claude Giorno, Mara Meacci, David Rae et David Turner
22 Jun 2000
The structural rate of unemployment and associated non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (the NAIRU) are of major importance to the analysis of macro and structural economic developments, although in practice these concepts are not well...
Options for Reforming the Spanish Tax System
Isabelle Joumard et Aristomene Varoudakis
20 Jun 2000
The recent tax reforms have improved incentives to work and removed barriers to the internationalisation of Spanish firms, and have helped to make the tax system simpler and more neutral, especially as regards saving. However, the structure of tax...
Economic Growth in the OECD Area
Stefano Scarpetta, Andrea Bassanini, Dirk Pilat et Paul Schreyer
19 Jun 2000
This paper discusses growth performance in the OECD countries over the past two decades. Special attention is given to developments in labour productivity, allowing for human capital accumulation, and multifactor productivity (MFP), allowing for...
Economic Effects of the 1999 Turkish Earthquakes
Alexandra Bibbee, Rauf Gönenç, Scott Jacobs, Josef Konvitz et Robert Price
19 Jun 2000
This Working Paper presents a cross-Directorate Report on the economic, budgetary, regulatory and urbanpolicy implications of the earthquakes which struck the Marmara and Bolu areas of Turkey on 17 August and 12 November 1999. The earthquakes caused...
Policy Influences on Economic Growth in OECD Countries
Sanghoon Ahn et Philip Hemmings
13 Jun 2000
This paper examines the recent literature on economic growth with a focus on policy issues and evidence relevant to OECD countries. The review begins with an overview of developments in the theory of economic growth and also comments generally on the...
The Tax System in the Czech Republic
Chiara Bronchi et Andrew Burns
25 May 2000
This paper discusses the tax system in the Czech Republic and offers some specific suggestions for reform. Viewed in international context, the Czech system is broadly similar to those operated in other OECD countries. Like them, it exhibits a number...
The Tax System in Norway
Paul van den Noord
24 May 2000
This paper reviews tax policy initiatives and the scope for further reform in Norway. Norway faces the challenge of containing expenditure to at least avoid future increases in the tax burden, which is already above the OECD average. The favourable...
A Changing Financial Environment and the Implications for Monetary Policy
Paul Mylonas, Sebastian Schich et Gert Wehinger
11 May 2000
Monetary policy affects activity, and ultimately inflation, in a number of ways. The most important of these is generally considered to be through the effect of interest rates directly on the demand for goods by households and firms. However,...
The Healthcare System in Hungary
Eva Orosz et Andrew Burns
28 Apr 2000
This paper examines within an international context, the healthcare system in Hungary. While the system resembles in many of its broad features those of other OECD countries, Hungarians have the lowest life expectancy in the OECD and its rate of...
Comparing Semi-Structural Methods to Estimate Unobserved Variables
Laurence Boone
17 Apr 2000
Economists often seek to estimate unobserved variables, representing “equilibrium” or “expected” values of economic variables, as benchmarks against which observed, realised values of these variables may be evaluated. Such comparisons are often used...