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The Effects of EMU on Structural Reforms in Labour and Product Markets
Duval, Romain; Elmeskov, Jørgen - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005
Structural reforms in labour and product markets are required in a number of euro-area countries. A question in this … regard, which is the topic of this paper, is whether belonging to the euro area tends to help or hinder structural reform … the decade since 1993 between euro-area countries and other OECD countries. Overall, euro-area countries appear to have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045886
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Accounting for Russia's Post-Crisis Growth
Ahrend, Rudiger - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004
This paper provides an in depth analysis of Russia’s recent growth, with a view to understanding the prospects for its continuation. It examines in detail the main drivers of growth, as well as the main developments and policies that have been underlying it. A key finding is that the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049019
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How to Sustain Growth in a Resource Based Economy?: The Main Concepts and their Application to the Russian Case
Ahrend, Rudiger - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
In recent years economists have come to see rich natural resource endowments as a ?curse? or ?precious bane? that inevitably undermines development and slows economic growth. Resource-based development undeniably involves important risks. Nonetheless, the resource curse - if it exists - is at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045957
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How to Sustain Growth in a Resource Based Economy? : The Main Concepts and their Application to the Russian Case
Ahrend, Rudiger - 2006
In recent years economists have come to see rich natural resource endowments as a ?curse? or ?precious bane? that inevitably undermines development and slows economic growth. Resource-based development undeniably involves important risks. Nonetheless, the resource curse - if it exists - is at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444649
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Accounting for Russia's Post-Crisis Growth
Ahrend, Rudiger - 2004
This paper provides an in depth analysis of Russia’s recent growth, with a view to understanding the prospects for its continuation. It examines in detail the main drivers of growth, as well as the main developments and policies that have been underlying it. A key finding is that the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445229
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The 2008-09 Crisis in Turkey : Performance, Policy Responses and Challenges for Sustaining the Recovery
Rawdanowicz, Lukasz - 2010
Turkey is recovering from its most severe recession in several decades. The massive contraction in GDP is largely explained by the unprecedented collapse in foreign demand, which was aggravated in Turkey by negative confidence effects and structural problems with competitiveness prior to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446874
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Tracking the Euro
Koen, Vincent; Boone, Laurence; Serres, Alain de; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2001
During the first two years of monetary union, the euro's weakness surprised most market participants. Explanations … empirical analysis showing that terms-of-trade and saving/investment behaviour seem to have driven the euro exchange rate over … view that towards the end of 2000, the euro was significantly undervalued ...<BR><P>Pendant les deux premières années de l …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045928
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Structural Reforms to Boost Turkey's Long-Term Growth
Gönenç, Rauf; Röhn, Oliver; Koen, Vincent; Saygili, … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
Turkey can achieve strong sustainable growth and job creation but further reforms in the labour market, education and product markets are required for such gains to materialise. In recent years, growth has been largely driven by the industrial catch-up of Anatolian regions, although the Marmara...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276807
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Austria's Well-being Goes Beyond GDP
Röhn, Oliver; Gönenç, Rauf; Beer, Christian; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Austria enjoys strong material well-being and high quality of life. Steady convergence with top GDP per capita levels translated into decisive improvements in household disposable incomes while significant redistribution has ensured low income inequality and poverty. This has been combined with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276827
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A Constant Market Share Analysis of Spanish Goods Exports
Pandiella, Alberto González - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015
The constant market share analysis framework is used to decompose changes in Spain’s share of the global market for goods exports into competitiveness and structural effects (i.e. the impact of specialisation, either in product or geographical terms) over 1996-2013. As other high-income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276857