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The Reform of the Health Care System in Portugal

Guichard, Stéphanie - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004

An ambitious reform to increase efficiency of the Portuguese health care system was launched in 2002. In contrast to … health sector, making changes essentially irreversible. The reform has two main aims: to deliver better-quality public health … services than at present but at no higher cost; and to reduce the underlying growth rate of public health-care spending over …

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The Economic Consequences of Terrorism

Lenain, Patrick; Bonturi, Marcos; Koen, Vincent - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2002

The unprecedented 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States caused massive casualties and damage, and ushered in an era of greater uncertainty. While a prompt and vigorous policy response helped limit the immediate economic impact of the aggression, the heightened terrorist threat...

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Legal Reform, Contract Enforcement and Firm Size in Mexico

Dougherty, Sean - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

Legal systems provide the basic institutions for firms and markets to operate. Their quality can have important consequences on the size distribution of firms, who rely on them for contract enforcement. This paper uses the variation in legal system quality across states in Mexico to examine the...

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The Role of Policy and Institutions for Productivity and Firm Dynamics: Evidence from Micro and Industry Data

Scarpetta, Stefano; Hemmings, Philip; Tressel, Thierry; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2002

This paper presents empirical evidence on the role that policy and institutional settings in both product and labour market play for productivity and firm dynamics. It exploits a new firm-level database for ten OECD countries and industry-level data for a broader set of countries, together with...

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Firm Dynamics and Productivity Growth: A Review of Micro Evidence from OECD Countries

Ahn, Sanghoon - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2001

This paper surveys recent empirical studies exploring aggregate productivity growth based on firm dynamics, focusing on micro-data from OECD countries. Aggregate productivity growth can be analysed as a sum of two separate processes. <I>i</I>) Changes in productivity in individual firms at a given size...</i>

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Too little Destruction too little Creation: A Schumpeterian Diagnosis of Barriers to Sustained Growth in Ukraine

Gianella, Christian; Tompson, William - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

This paper examines problems of entry, exit and competition in Ukrainian product markets. It finds that Ukraine still has too little of all three, and that exit mechanisms, in particular, function poorly. Since impediments to entry and exit are largely the product of excessive and ill...

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Fast-Falling Barriers and Growing Concentration: The Emergence of a Private Economy in China

Dougherty, Sean; Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005

This paper assesses the progress of China’s transition toward a market economy by examining the structure of ownership, productivity, and profitability, as well as the concentration of production across firms, industries and regions. It does this by analyzing a database of firm microdata of...

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India's Growth Pattern and Obstacles to Higher Growth

Dougherty, Sean; Herd, Richard; Chalaux, Thomas; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008

India’s growth performance has improved significantly over the past 20 years, but has been uneven across industries and states. While some service industries, notably in the information and communications technology sector, have become highly competitive in world markets – yielding...

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Aggregate Growth: What Have We Learned from Microeconomic Evidence?

Haltiwanger, John - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2000

This paper provides a synthesis of what is known about the determinants of output growth based on studying microeconomic data sets. It starts with a summary of the theoretical explanations which help reconcile heterogeneous performance observed across establishments in the same sector. The...

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Public Spending on Health and Long-term Care: A new set of projections

Maisonneuve, Christine de la; Martins, Joaquim Oliveira - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

This paper proposes a new set of public health and long-term care expenditure projections till 2060, following up on … the previous set of projections published in 2006. It disentangles health from longterm care expenditure as well as the … underlying determinants of health and long-term care spending and by extending the country coverage to include BRIICS countries …

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