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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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Enhancing the Productivity of the Service Sector in Japan

Jones, Randall S.; Yoon, Taesik - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008

Labour productivity growth in the service sector, which accounts for 70% of Japan’s economic output and employment, has slowed markedly in recent years in contrast to manufacturing. The disappointing performance is associated with weak competition in the service sector resulting from strict...

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Boosting Productivity in Korea's Service Sector

Jones, Randall S. - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

Labour productivity growth in the service sector has been low relative to manufacturing. This is explained in part by weak competition in services resulting from strict product market regulation and the low level of import penetration and inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI). Increasing...

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Reforming Housing and Regional Policies in Korea

Jones, Randall S.; Yokoyama, Tadashi - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008

The government has introduced five policy packages since August 2005 to stabilise house prices, mainly due to concerns about possible spill-overs from the capital region to other parts of the country, even though the increase on a nation-wide basis has been modest compared to other OECD...

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Reforming the Public Expenditure System in Korea

Nam, Young-Sook; Jones, Randall S. - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2003

Although Korea has the second-lowest level of public spending among OECD countries at 22½ per cent of GDP, it faces strong upward spending pressures over the medium and longer term, which could threaten fiscal sustainability. This paper analyses the main features of Korea’s public expenditure...

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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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