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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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Constraints and demands on public finances: Considerations of resilient fiscal policy

Rawdanowicz, Łukasz - 2021

Over the past several decades, public debt has increased substantially in many OECD countries, particularly in the aftermath of recessions. The extent of this increase and the resulting debt levels varied across countries, partly reflecting differences in average budget balances. Despite rising...

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Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained : The Long-Run Fiscal Reward of Structural Reforms

Hoeller, Peter - 2006

The recent reform of the Stability and Growth Pact provides more leeway for EU governments to temporarily breach the 3% deficit limit if this facilitates the implementation of initially expensive reforms. But the implementation of this principle is not obvious as budgets would need to specify...

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Accounting for One-off Operations when Assessing Underlying Fiscal Positions

Joumard, Isabelle; Minegishi, Makoto; André, Christophe; … - 2008

Frequent recourse to large one-off operations in a number of OECD countries has undermined the accuracy of cyclically adjusted fiscal balances as a measure of both the sustainability of public finance and the fiscal stance. This paper first provides detailed information on the nature and amount...

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Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Gain : The Impact of Structural Reform on Fiscal of Outcomes in EMU

van den Noord, Paul - 2006

The 2005 reform of the EU Stability and Growth Pact has provided leeway for governments to let their fiscal deficit temporarily breach the 3% rule to finance the immediate budgetary cost of structural reform, such as compensation schemes to offset redistributive effects. Against this backdrop,...

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Avoiding the Value Added Tax : Theory and Cross-Country Evidence

de Mello, Luiz - 2008

This paper develops a differential game of tax avoidance by modelling the interactions between a taxpayer and the tax authority. This framework is particularly useful for explicitly modelling situations of conflict. The solution to the game is a non-co-operative Nash that depends on the...

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