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Options for Benchmarking Infrastructure Performance

Pisu, Mauro; Hoeller, Peter; Joumard, Isabelle - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012

Three main approaches can be used to assess infrastructure performance. The first employs macro-econometric techniques to estimate the impact of the existing infrastructure capital stock on growth and to infer its growth-maximising level. This approach neglects the impact of infrastructure on...

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Looking to 2060: Long-Term Global Growth Prospects: A Going for Growth Report

Johansson, Åsa; Guillemette, Yvan; Murtin, Fabrice; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012

This report presents the results from a new model for projecting growth of OECD and major non-OECD economies over the next 50 years as well as imbalances that arise. A baseline scenario assuming gradual structural reform and fiscal consolidation to stabilise government-debt-to GDP ratios is...

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Long-Term Growth Scenarios

Johansson, Åsa; Guillemette, Yvan; Murtin, Fabrice; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

This paper presents the results from a new model for projecting growth of OECD and major non-OECD economies over the next 50 years as well as imbalances that arise. A baseline scenario assuming gradual structural reform and fiscal consolidation to stabilise government-debt-to GDP ratios is...

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Solow or Lucas?: Testing Growth Models Using Panel Data from OECD Countries

Arnold, Jens; Bassanini, Andrea; Scarpetta, Stefano - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

convergence and short term dynamics to vary across countries. While there are indeed good reasons to believe in common long … direct investment, the theoretical models imply that the speed of convergence to the steady state differs across countries …, standard dynamic fixed effect specifications, by imposing cross-country homogeneity restrictions on speed of convergence and …

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Regulation, Competition and Productivity Convergence

Conway, Paul; Rosa, Donato de; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

and significant.<P>Régulation, concurrence et convergence de la productivité<BR>Cette étude analyse les effets de la …

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Product Market Regulation: Extending the Analysis Beyond OECD Countries

Wölfl, Anita; Wanner, Isabelle; Röhn, Oliver; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

In this paper the recently updated product market regulation (PMR) indicators are extended to a larger set of countries including several non-OECD members. It investigates regulatory patterns in this extended set of countries as compared to the OECD countries and analyses the link between...

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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Public Spending: Experience in OECD Countries

Joumard, Isabelle; Kongsrud, Per Mathis; Nam, Young-Sook; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004

In most OECD countries, public spending rose steadily as a share of GDP over the past decades to the mid-1990s, but this trend has since abated. The spending pressures stemming from the continued expansion of social programmes have been partly compensated by transient or one-off factors....

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Tax Systems in European Union Countries

Joumard, Isabelle - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 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 burden in the EU area remains much higher than in...

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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Public Spending in Switzerland

Joumard, Isabelle; Giorno, Claude - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2002

Switzerland is a highly decentralised country with large spending and revenue-raising powers devolved to cantons and municipalities. The federal system, in combination with an extensive use of direct democracy, has contributed to keep public spending at a relatively low level in international...

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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Public Spending in Norway

Joumard, Isabelle; Suyker, Wim - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2002

Public spending is very high in Norway, partly reflecting an extensive coverage of the welfare system and ambitious regional development objectives. Moreover, several institutional features contribute to dampening the cost-effectiveness of many public-spending programmes. Abundant oil revenues...

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