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Estimates of the output gap ought to be a useful guide for macroeconomic policy, both for assessing inflationary pressures and fiscal sustainability, but their reliability has been called into question by the large revisions which they are often subject to, particularly around turning points....
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measures perform well in regression analysis explaining productivity across OECD countries and over time. In OECD samples …
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The correlation between a firm’s size and its productivity level varies considerably across OECD countries, suggesting … that some countries are more successful at channelling resources to high productivity firms than others. Accordingly, we … examine the extent to which regulations affecting product, labour and credit markets influence productivity, via their effect …
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This paper analyses for 34 OECD countries the extent to which the calculation of aggregate multi-factor productivity …
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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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potential effects of fiscal decentralisation on a set of outcomes such as GDP, productivity, public investment and school …
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policies to cross-country differences in productivity, innovation and resource allocation. This paper describes the steps taken … to and the trade-offs involved in constructing firm-level total factor productivity (TFP) measures using ORBIS, a cross … productivity measures can be calculated using readily available variables for all countries, and presents possible solutions to …
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indicators and multifactor productivity (MFP) growth is also examined with a particular focus on the role of public policies in … productivity growth. However, direct empirical evidence of the positive effects of these policies on productivity is less …
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This paper examines how import penetration affects firms' productivity growth taking into account the heterogeneity in … product market regulation measures depending on firms' positions along the global distribution of productivity levels. The … heterogeneous effects of international competition and domestic product market regulation on firm-level productivity growth are …
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