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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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Implications of Output Gap Uncertainty in Times of Crisis

Bouis, Romain; Cournède, Boris; Christensen, Ane Kathrine - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012

This paper analyses the monetary and fiscal policy implications of output gap estimates in times of crisis. The widening of output gaps observed in major OECD economies in the wake of the recent crisis has been mainly due to total factor productivity gaps, except in the United States where it...

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Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Gain: The Impact of Structural Reform on Fiscal of Outcomes in EMU

Noord, Paul van den; Cournède, Boris - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

The 2005 reform of the EU Stability and Growth Pact has provided leeway for governments to let their fiscal deficit temporarily breach the 3% rule to finance the immediate budgetary cost of structural reform, such as compensation schemes to offset redistributive effects. Against this backdrop,...

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The Political Economy of Delaying Fiscal Consolidation

Cournède, Boris - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

Over the next decades, many OECD countries are anticipating large increases in public spending as a result of population ageing and other long-term structural trends. The need to put public finances on a sustainable footing is widely recognised, but progress has been uneven and slow. Some policy...

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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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