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Structural Policies to Overcome Geographic Barriers and Create Prosperity in New Zealand

Guillemette, Yvan - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

regulation. Policies should be refocused around the productivity goal in a number of areas, beginning with those covered in this …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046189

Accounting for Russia's Post-Crisis Growth

Ahrend, Rudiger - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004

This paper provides an in depth analysis of Russia’s recent growth, with a view to understanding the prospects for its continuation. It examines in detail the main drivers of growth, as well as the main developments and policies that have been underlying it. A key finding is that the role of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049019

Understanding Russian Regions' Economic Performance during Periods of Decline and Growth: An Extreme-bound Analysis Approach

Ahrend, Rudiger - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008

This article uses “extreme-bound”-type analysis to revisit the determinants behind widely differing economic growth in Russian regions. Using data of 77 regions for 1993-2004, it separately examines the growth drivers for the phase of economic decline up to 1998, and for the period of strong...

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The Contribution of Economic Geography to GDP Per Capita

Boulhol, Hervé; Serres, Alain de; Molnár, Margit - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008

This paper examines how much of the dispersion in economic performance across OECD countries can be accounted for by economic geography factors. More specifically, two aspects of economic geography are examined, namely the proximity to areas of dense economic activity and endowments in natural...

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How to Sustain Growth in a Resource Based Economy?: The Main Concepts and their Application to the Russian Case

Ahrend, Rudiger - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

In recent years economists have come to see rich natural resource endowments as a ?curse? or ?precious bane? that inevitably undermines development and slows economic growth. Resource-based development undeniably involves important risks. Nonetheless, the resource curse - if it exists - is at...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045957

Russian Manufacturing and the Threat of ‘Dutch Disease': A Comparison of Competitiveness Developments in Russian and Ukrainian Industry

Ahrend, Rudiger; Rosa, Donato de; Tompson, William - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

This paper examines the development of Russian industry in comparison with that of Ukrainian industry during 1995–2004 in an effort to ascertain to what extent, if any, Russian manufacturing showed signs of succumbing to ‘Dutch disease’. Ukraine and Russia began the market transition with...

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Has Deregulation Increased Investment in Infrastructure?: Firm-Level Evidence from OECD Countries

Araújo, Sónia - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

behaviour. We find that the impact of regulation on investment is both sector and firm specific. A reduction in the degree of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322440

Regulatory Reforms to Unlock Long–Term Growth in Turkey

Gönenç, Rauf; Rawdanowicz, Łukasz - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

new regulation on the voluntary basis to identify the most successful solutions that can be later rolled out to the whole …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752419

Reforming China's Monetary Policy Framework to Meet Domestic Objectives

Conway, Paul; Herd, Richard; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

As a result of reforms and financial sector development, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) now exerts significant control over money market interest rates. With money market conditions increasingly influencing effective commercial lending rates, the PBoC is also able to affect the cost of...

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Strengthening Competition in Poland

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

significant. Despite impressive progress, product market regulation remains more burdensome than in most OECD countries, partly … autorités de régulation sectorielles dans les industries de réseau et les prérogatives de l'Autorité de la concurrence peuvent … régulation sectorielles n'aient pas instauré des règles du jeu équitables, garantissant l'accès des tiers aux infrastructures …

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