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

Égert, Balázs - 2017

This paper investigates the relationship linking investment (capital stock) and structural policies. Using a panel of 32 OECD countries from 1985 to 2013, we show that more stringent product and labour market regulations are associated with less investment (lower capital stock). The paper also...

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The quantification of structural reforms in OECD countries : a new framework

Égert, Balázs; Gál, Peter - 2017

This document describes and discusses a new supply side framework that quantifies the impact of structural reforms on per capita income in OECD countries. It presents the overall macroeconomic impacts of reforms by aggregating over the effects on physical capital, employment and productivity...

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

Égert, Balázs - 2018

This paper estimates and quantifies the impact of structural reforms on per capita income for a large set of OECD and non-OECD countries. The findings suggest that the quality of institutions matters to a large extent for economic outcomes. More competition-friendly regulations, as measured by...

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The quantification of structural reforms : taking stock of the results for OECD and non-OECD countries

Égert, Balázs - 2020

This paper summarises earlier OECD work aimed at quantifying the impact of structural reforms on economic outcomes. It overviews i.) insights obtained for the linear relationships linking policies and economic outcomes (including multi-factor productivity, capital deepening and employment) for...

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The policy drivers of self-employment : new evidence from Europe

Mourougane, Annabelle; Égert, Balázs; Baker, Mark; … - 2020

Using cross-country time series panel regressions for the last two decades, this paper seeks to identify the main policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the aggregate share of self-employed as well as its breakdown by...

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Exports and property prices in France : are they connected?

Égert, Balázs; Kierzenkowski, Rafał - 2010

-to-head competition with Germany; iii) low non-price competitiveness of French export goods; iv) offshoring of entire production processes …

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Non-linear exchange rate dynamics in target zones : a bumpy road towards a honeymoon ; some evidence from the ERM, ERM2 and selected new EU member states

Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús (contributor); … - 2005

diminish during the last stage of the run-up to the euro. Important non-linear adjustments are also detected for Denmark in ERM …

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Ordoliberalism, pragmatism and the Eurozone crisis : how the German tradition shaped economic policy in Europe

Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Nientiedt, Daniel - 2015 - This version: May 18, 2015

extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper …

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Sustainability of German fiscal policy and public debt : historical and time series evidence for the period 1850-2010

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2013

default. Due to a multitude of large scale events in its past, Germany is far from being an exception: In fact, Germany … Germany's public finances against the standard theoretical background using a unique database, retrieved from multiple sources … historical perception of Germany as the poster child of European public finance. Given these corresponding breaks in time series …

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