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Infrastructure and Private-Sector Productivity
Ford, Robert - 1991
rate of investment in public-sector infrastructure. Using data for eleven OECD countries, this note provides only mixed … significant effect of infrastructure on TFP in about half the countries. A longer-term perspective was also examined for the … between infrastructure and TFP until after World War II ... …
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Infrastructure and Growth : Empirical Evidence
Égert, Balázs - 2009
Investment in network infrastructure can boost long-term economic growth in OECD countries. Moreover, infrastructure … the links between infrastructure and growth and the role of public policies, reports the results on the links with growth … from a variety of econometric approaches. Time-series results reveal a positive impact of infrastructure investment on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446377
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Regulation, Productivity and Growth : OECD Evidence
Nicoletti, Giuseppe - 2003
In this paper, we relate the scope and depth of regulatory reforms to growth outcomes in OECD countries. By means of a new set of quantitative indicators of regulation, we show that the cross-country variation of regulatory settings has increased in recent years, despite extensive liberalisation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443921
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Knowledge, Technology and Economic Growth : Recent Evidence from OECD Countries
Bassanini, Andrea - 2000
In this paper we present an international comparison of growth trends in the OECD countries, with a special attention to developments in labour productivity - allowing for human capital accumulation – and multifactor productivity (MFP) - allowing for changes in the composition of fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443928
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Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth : Experience in OECD Countries
OBrien, Paul - 2001
Clean air, clean water, fewer toxic emissions and less household waste are among the key environmental policy objectives that most OECD governments have been pursuing over the past three decades. This effort to take more account of the environmental costs of economic growth has been pursued in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444157
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Finance and Growth : Some Theoretical Considerations and a Review of the Empirical Literature
Tsuru, Kotaro - 2000
This paper aims at providing an overview of the theoretical considerations and a review of the empirical literature on the relationship between finance and growth. Section I describes the role of financial development in economic growth at the macro level, both theoretically and empirically....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444188
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Does Human Capital Matter for Growth in OECD Countries? : Evidence from Pooled Mean-Group Estimates
Bassanini, Andrea - 2001
This paper presents empirical estimates of human-capital augmented growth equations for a panel of 21 OECD countries over the period 1971-98. It uses an improved dataset on human capital and a novel econometric technique that reconciles growth model assumptions with the needs of panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444192
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The Impact on Growth of Higher Efficiency of Public Spending on Schools
Gonand, Frédéric - 2007
This paper assesses the impact on economic growth of increased efficiency of public spending in primary and lower-secondary education. Higher efficiency in public spending in schools can bolster growth through two main channels. On the one hand, it can allow a transfer of labour from the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444402
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Globalisation and Linkages : Macro-Structural Challenges and Opportunities
Richardson, Pete - 1997
This paper was prepared in the OECD Economics Department as a contribution to the Organisation-wide study entitled, “Towards a New Global Age”. It examines macro-structural economic developments in and between OECD and non-OECD economies, the economic linkages and a number of structural...
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Regulation and Investment
Alesina, Alberto; Ardagna, Silvia; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; … - 2003
One commonly held view about the difference between continental European countries and other OECD countries, especially the United States, is that the heavy regulation of Europe reduces its growth. Using newly assembled data on regulation in several sectors of many OECD countries, we provide...
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