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The quantification of structural reforms : extending the framework to emerging market economies

Égert, Balázs - 2018

. More competition-friendly regulations, as measured by the OECDs' Product Market Regulation (PMR) indicator improve economic … businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …

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Regulation, institutions and aggregate investment : new evidence from OECD countries

Égert, Balázs - 2017

and labour market regulation on the capital stock. Several alternative testing methods show that the negative influence of … product and labour market regulation is considerably stronger at higher levels. The paper uncovers important policy …

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Investment in OECD countries : a primer

Égert, Balázs - 2021

Aggregate business investment is a major driver of long-term economic growth. It has been weak in many advanced economies over the last decade, partly due to cyclical demand-side effects. Nevertheless, a number of structural factors and policies interact with and have an effect on business...

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The VARying effect of foreign shocks in Central and Eastern Europe

Jiménez-Rodríguez, Rebeca; Morales Zumaquero, Amalia; … - 2010

This paper investigates the impact of international shocks - interest rate, commodity price and industrial production shocks - on key macroeconomic variables in ten Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries by using near-VAR models and monthly data from the early 1990s to 2009. In contrast to...

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Determinants of house prices in Central and Eastern Europe

Égert, Balázs (contributor); … - 2007

This paper studies the determinants of house prices in eight transition economies of central and eastern Europe (CEE) and 19 OECD countries. The main question addressed is whether the conventional fundamental determinants of house prices, such as GDP per capita, real interest rates, housing...

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The impact of macro news and central bank communication on emerging European forex markets

Égert, Balázs; Kočenda, Evžen - 2013

We employ two-stage empirical strategy to analyze the impact of macroeconomic news and central bank communication on the exchange rates of three Central and Eastern European (CEE) currencies against the euro. First we estimate the nominal equilibrium exchange rate based on a monetary model....

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The tortoise and the hare : the race between vaccine rollout and new Covid variants

Turner, David; Égert, Balázs; Guillemette, Yvan; … - 2021

New variants of the virus are spreading which, together with seasonal effects, are estimated to be able to raise effective reproduction numbers by up to 90%. Meanwhile, many countries are rolling out vaccination programmes, but at varying speeds. Hence the race is on to beat the variants with...

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Quantifying the macroeconomic impact of Covid-19-related school closures through the human capital channel

De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Égert, Balázs; Turner, David - 2023

This paper uses a new measure of human capital, which distinguishes both quality and quantity components, to estimate the long-term effect of the Covid-19-related school closures on aggregate productivity through the human capital channel. Productivity losses build up over time and are estimated...

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The effect of structural reforms : do they differ between GDP and adjusted household disposable income?

Botev, Jamila; Égert, Balázs; Turner, David - 2022

The paper considers whether structural reforms have a different impact on adjusted household disposable income (AHDI) compared to GDP, particularly given that while the latter is currently used as the basis for the OECD Economics Department's framework for evaluating the effect of structural...

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Regulation, institutions, and productivity : new macroeconomic evidence from OECD countries

Égert, Balázs - 2017

Empirical research on the drivers of multi-factor productivity (MFP) is abundant at the firm- and industry level but surprisingly little research has been conducted on the determinants of MFP at the macroeconomic level. In this paper, we seek to understand the drivers of country-level MFP with a...

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