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Corporate Tax Competition and the Decline of Public Investment

Gomes, Pedro - 2008

The government's choices of the corporate tax rate and public investment are interdependent. In particular, they both respond positively to the other. Therefore, international tax competition not only drives corporate tax rates to lower levels but might also affect negatively the stock of public...

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Potential Output Growth in Several Industrialised Countries : A Comparison

Cahn, Christophe; Saint Guilhem, Arthur - 2021

In this paper, we present international comparisons of potential output growth among several economies - Canada, the Euro area, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States - for the period 1991-2004. The main estimates rely on a structural approach...

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Does Human Capital Matter for Growth in OECD Countries? : Evidence from Pooled Mean-Group Estimates

Bassanini, Andrea - 2001

convergence to the steady state of around 15 per cent per year. Taken together these results are not consistent with the human …

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Product Market Regulation : Extending the Analysis Beyond OECD Countries

Wölfl, Anita; Wanner, Isabelle; Röhn, Oliver; … - 2010

In this paper the recently updated product market regulation (PMR) indicators are extended to a larger set of countries including several non-OECD members. It investigates regulatory patterns in this extended set of countries as compared to the OECD countries and analyses the link between...

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Regulation, Competition and Productivity Convergence

Conway, Paul; de Rosa, Donato; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; … - 2006

This paper investigates the effect of product market regulations on the international diffusion of productivity shocks. The empirical results indicate that restrictive product market regulations slow the process of adjustment through which best practice production techniques diffuse across...

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Solow or Lucas?: Testing Growth Models Using Panel Data from OECD Countries

Arnold, Jens - 2007

convergence and short term dynamics to vary across countries. While there are indeed good reasons to believe in common long … direct investment, the theoretical models imply that the speed of convergence to the steady state differs across countries …, standard dynamic fixed effect specifications, by imposing cross-country homogeneity restrictions on speed of convergence and …

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Have Developed Countries Escaped the Curse of Distance?

Boulhol, Hervé - 2008

There is widespread evidence that a better access to markets contributes to raising income levels. However, no quantification of the impact of distance to markets has been made on the basis of a sample restricted to advanced — and therefore more homogeneous — countries. This paper applies...

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Determinants of government bond spreads in new EU countries

Alexopoulou, Ioana; Bunda, Irina; Ferrando, Annalisa - 2009

Based on a rich database of government bond spreads and macroeconomic indicators over the period 2001-2008, we propose an empirical assessment of the role of fundamentals in driving long-term sovereign bond spreads of the new EU countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary,...

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Fiscal variables and bond spreads: evidence from eastern European countries and Turkey

Nickel, Christiane; Rother, Philipp; Rülke, Jan C. - 2009

We investigate the impact of fiscal variables on bond yield spreads relative to US Treasury bonds in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Turkey from May 1998 to December 2007. To account for the importance of market expectations we use projected values for fiscal and macroeconomic...

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What explains the surge in euro area sovereign spreads during the financial crisis of 2007-09?

Attinasi, Maria-Grazia; Checherita-Westphal, Cristina; … - 2009

This paper uses a dynamic panel approach to explain the determinants of widening sovereign bond yield spreads vis-à-vis Germany in selected euro area countries during the period end-July 2007 to end-March 2009, when the financial turmoil developed into a full-blown financial and economic...

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