Der vorliegende Forschungsbericht beschäftigt sich mit dem eHealth Benchmarking in Europa. Dabei wird insbesondere auf einige vorläufige Ergebnisse und dem Blick nach vorn eingegangen.

The dissertation is about what are new work environments, why measure it, what to measure, the challenge, approach chosen, state of the art in research, a framework for benchmarking NWEs and next steps.

Diese Arbeit untersucht die Determinanten des Wirtschaftswachstums in OECD-Ländern für die Periode von1960 bis 2000. Die geschätzten Wachstumsregressionen ergeben dabei mit überraschender Deutlichkeit, dassdas Wachstum der Staatsquote eine wichtige negative und die grössere Offenheit eine...

We study the impact of transfer pricing rules on sales prices, firms’ organizational structure, andconsumers’ utility within a two-country monopolistic competition model featuring source-basedprofit taxes that differ across countries. Firms can either become multinationals, i.e., they serve...

Public pension programmes in many OECD countries are in difficulties. With anageing population, and declining participation of working age men in paid work,existing pension arrangements are far too costly in many countries, both now and inthe future. This paper examines the evidence as to...

This paper examines whether the evidence from OECD countries is consistent withthe predictions of endogenous growth models that the structure of taxation and publicexpenditure can affect the steady-state growth rate. We find strong support for theBarro (1990) public policy endogenous growth...

Reforming pensions looms large over the policy agenda of OECD countries. This is hardlysurprising since public spending on pensions accounted on average for 7 per cent of OECDGDP in 2005; and this pension spending effort is set to increase significantly over the comingdecades in response to...

Despite the rapid rise in cross-border mergers and acquisitions in the past twenty years, there has been little attention paid to what determines their patterns and, in particular, what influences their behaviour over time. Employing a panel database this paper models the behaviour of foreign...

This paper provides a critical view of the cross country literature on the impact of labour market institutions and policies on the evolving pattern of unemployment in OECD countries. Such widely used indicators as the generosity of unemployment insurance or the strength of trade unions are...

Die vorliegende Studie von Britta Utz thematisiert ein hochaktuelles Thema. Es geht um die Auswertung der ersten fünf Jahre Erfahrungen mit den Leitsätzen für multinationale Unterneh-men, die im Rahmen der OECD im Jahre 2000 vereinbart worden sind. Die Unterzeichnerstaa-ten der OECD haben in...