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Local Public Finances and Municipal Reform in Finland

André, Christophe; García, Clara - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Finnish municipalities enjoy ample fiscal autonomy and provide or arrange the provision of a large share of public services. In recent years, their spending and debt has been increasing steadily, especially because of population ageing and increases in the cost of health care and social...

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Does Fiscal Decentralisation Strengthen Social Capital?: Cross-Country Evidence and the Experiences of Brazil and Indonesia

Mello, Luiz de - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

decentralisation fosters social capital, measured in terms of interpersonal trust. Empirical evidence based on World Values Survey data … complemented by country-specific regressions for Brazil and Indonesia on account of these countries. experiences with fiscal … decentralisation. The results show that the cohorts of individuals that have been exposed to decentralisation are in general more pro …

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Judicial Performance and its Determinants: A Cross-Country Perspective

Palumbo, Giuliana; Giupponi, Giulia; Nunziata, Luca; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

Well functioning judiciaries are key to economic development. Combining existing information with a newly collected dataset, the paper provides cross-country comparisons of measures of judicial performance, and investigates how cross-country differences in trial length are related to the...

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The Economics of Civil Justice: New Cross-country Data and Empirics

Palumbo, Giuliana; Giupponi, Giulia; Nunziata, Luca; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

Combining existing information with a newly collected dataset, the paper develops indicators of the performance and the institutional characteristics of OECD judicial systems. It provides cross-country comparisons of measures of trial length, accessibility to justice services and predictability...

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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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Strengthening Competition in Poland

Égert, Balázs; Goujard, Antoine - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Poland’s productivity has grown strongly over the past decade, and efforts to reduce the regulatory burden have been significant. Despite impressive progress, product market regulation remains more burdensome than in most OECD countries, partly due to the importance of red tape and the level...

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Economic Policies and Microeconomic Stability: A Literature Review and Some Empirics

Garda, Paula; Ziemann, Volker - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

The decline in macroeconomic volatility from the 1980s to the onset of the Great Recession did not, in general, translate into more microeconomic stability. While microeconomic volatility can reflect growth-generating processes, such as creative destruction and re-allocation of resources,...

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Policies to support sustainable long-term growth in New Zealand

Cheung, Calista - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

As its workforce ages and major economies shift towards producing higher value-added goods and services, New Zealand will face increasing challenges to remain globally competitive and maintain high living standards. Future growth will need to come increasingly from productivity gains, and...

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Managerial Capital and Business R&D as Enablers of Productivity Convergence

Andrews, Dan; Westmore, Ben - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

This paper explores the role of managerial capital and business research and development (R&D) in fostering multifactor productivity (MFP) convergence in a panel of 42 countries. The OECD long-term growth model is augmented to show that, in addition to trade openness, an economy’s speed of...

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