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No. 267 | 12 Oct 2000 |
Aggregate Growth
This paper provides a synthesis of what is known about the determinants of output growth based on studying microeconomic data sets. It starts with a summary of the theoretical explanations which help reconcile heterogeneous performance observed... |
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No. 266 | 12 Oct 2000 |
Determinants of Long-Term Growth
This paper examines the robustness of explanatory variables in cross-country economic growth regressions. It employs a novel approach, Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE), which constructs estimates as a weighted average of OLS estimates... |
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No. 265 | 12 Oct 2000 |
The Great Reversals
We attempt to identify and explain the broad patterns of financial development in developed countries over the twentieth century. We find that, contrary to the predictions of most existing theories, indicators of financial development do not seem... |
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No. 264 | 12 Oct 2000 |
Trade and Growth
The relationships between trade and growth have long been a subject of considerable controversy among economists. In the early post-World War II period, many economic leaders concluded that protective trade policies stimulated growth, and import... |
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No. 263 | 12 Oct 2000 |
Growth Effects of Education and Social Capital in the OECD Countries
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the growth effects of education and social capital. The main focus is on the cross-country evidence for the OECD countries, but the paper also briefly reviews evidence from labour economics, to clarify... |
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No. 262 | 12 Oct 2000 |
Human Capital in Growth Regressions
We construct a revised version of the Barro and Lee (1996) data set for a sample of OECD countries using previously unexploited sources and following a heuristic approach to obtain plausible time profiles for attainment levels by removing sharp... |
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No. 261 | 31 Oct 2000 |
Raising the Speed Limit
This paper examines the underpinnings of the successful performance of the US economy in the late 1990s. Relative to the early 1990s, output growth has accelerated by nearly two percentage points. We attribute this to rapid capital accumulation, a... |
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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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Aggregate Growth
John Haltiwanger
12 Oct 2000
This paper provides a synthesis of what is known about the determinants of output growth based on studying microeconomic data sets. It starts with a summary of the theoretical explanations which help reconcile heterogeneous performance observed...
Determinants of Long-Term Growth
Gernot Doppelhofer, Ronald I. Miller et Xavier Sala-i-Martin
12 Oct 2000
This paper examines the robustness of explanatory variables in cross-country economic growth regressions. It employs a novel approach, Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE), which constructs estimates as a weighted average of OLS estimates...
The Great Reversals
Raghuram G. Rajan et Luigi Zingales
12 Oct 2000
We attempt to identify and explain the broad patterns of financial development in developed countries over the twentieth century. We find that, contrary to the predictions of most existing theories, indicators of financial development do not seem...
Trade and Growth
Robert E. Baldwin
12 Oct 2000
The relationships between trade and growth have long been a subject of considerable controversy among economists. In the early post-World War II period, many economic leaders concluded that protective trade policies stimulated growth, and import...
Growth Effects of Education and Social Capital in the OECD Countries
Jonathan Temple
12 Oct 2000
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the growth effects of education and social capital. The main focus is on the cross-country evidence for the OECD countries, but the paper also briefly reviews evidence from labour economics, to clarify...
Human Capital in Growth Regressions
Angel de la Fuente et Rafael Donénech
12 Oct 2000
We construct a revised version of the Barro and Lee (1996) data set for a sample of OECD countries using previously unexploited sources and following a heuristic approach to obtain plausible time profiles for attainment levels by removing sharp...
Raising the Speed Limit
Dale W. Jorgenson et Kevin J. Stiroh
31 Oct 2000
This paper examines the underpinnings of the successful performance of the US economy in the late 1990s. Relative to the early 1990s, output growth has accelerated by nearly two percentage points. We attribute this to rapid capital accumulation, a...
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...