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Policies for Inclusive Urbanisation in China

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...

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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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Can India Achieve Double-digit growth ?

Herd, Richard; Conway, Paul; Hill, Sam; Koen, Vincent; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

In recent years, India has enjoyed one of the highest growth rates worldwide, weathering the global financial crisis better than many other countries. Prudent macroeconomic policies will be critical to prolonging the current expansion, given the risks associated with high inflation and volatile...

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Do Corporate Taxes Reduce Productivity and Investment at the Firm Level?: Cross-Country Evidence from the Amadeus Dataset

Schwellnus, Cyrille; Arnold, Jens - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008

This paper uses a stratified sample of firms across OECD economies over the period 1996-2004 to analyse the effects of corporate taxes on productivity and investment. Applying a differences-in-differences estimation strategy which exploits differential effects of corporate taxes on firms with...

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Do Tax Structures Affect Aggregate Economic Growth?: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries

Arnold, Jens - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between tax structures and economic growth by entering indicators of the tax structure into a set of panel growth regressions for 21 OECD countries, in which both the accumulation of physical and human capital are accounted for. The results of the analysis...

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