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Regulations in services sectors and their impact on downstream industries : the OECD 2013 REGIMPACT indicator

Égert, Balázs; Wanner, Isabelle - 2016

regulation data are integrated with the annual energy, transport and communication regulation (ETCR) indicator and what sector …

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The effect of public sector efficiency on firm-level productivity growth : the Italian case

Fadic, Milenko; Garda, Paula; Pisu, Mauro - 2019

This paper investigates the causal effect of public administration efficiency on firm-level productivity. To this … purpose, we combine newly available data from Italy on public administration efficiency of subnational governments with geo … administration efficiency and firm productivity because of large and persistent spatial disparities in economic performance and local …

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Public policy and resource allocation : evidence from firms in OECD countries

Andrews, Dan; Cingano, Federico - 2012

on the efficiency of resource allocation. Our results suggest that there is an economically and statistically robust … efficiency (i.e. a lower correspondence between a firm’s size and its productivity level). By contrast, financial market under …

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Trade specialisation and policies to foster competition and innovation in Denmark

McGowan, Muge Adalet - 2014

Danish productivity has grown only weakly over the past two decades, both historically and in relation to other countries, despite sound policies and institutions. At the same time, the country has lost export market shares. Denmark needs to continue its efforts to reap the benefits of...

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The quantification of structural reforms

Égert, Balázs - 2018

This paper summarises earlier OECD work aimed at quantifying the impact of structural reforms on economic outcomes. It overviews: i.) insights obtained for the linear relationships linking policies and economic outcomes (including multi-factor productivity, capital deepening and employment) for...

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The quantification of structural reforms : introducing country-specific policy effects

Égert, Balázs; Gál, Peter - 2018

Product Market Regulation indicator, housing market regulations and policies, Doing Business indicators and the quality of … institutions such as the rule of law indicator or the efficiency of the legal system). Results suggest that for instance, when more … stringent product market regulation hurts more in more open economies. Better institutions amplify the positive effect of R …

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The quantification of structural reforms : extending the framework to emerging market economies

Égert, Balázs - 2017

. More competition-friendly regulations, as measured by the OECDs’ Product Market Regulation (PMR) indicator improve economic … businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …

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Improving infrastructure in the United Kingdom

Pisu, Mauro; Pels, Barbara; Bottini, Novella - 2015

The United Kingdom (UK) has spent less on infrastructure compared to other OECD countries over the past three decades. The perceived quality of UK infrastructure assets is close to the OECD average but lower than in other G7 countries. Capacity constraints have emerged in some sectors, such as...

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Environmental policies and productivity growth : a critical review of empirical findings

Koźluk, Tomasz; Zipperer, Vera - 2013

The economic effects of environmental policies are of central interest to policymakers. The traditional approach sees environmental policies as a burden on economic activity, at least in the short to medium term, as they raise costs without increasing output and restrict the set of production...

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Productivity measurement with natural capital

Brandt, Nicola; Schreyer, Paul; Zipperer, Vera - 2013

Traditional measures of multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth generally do not recognise natural capital as inputs into the production process. Since productivity growth is measured as the residual between output and input growth, it will pick up the growth in unmeasured inputs, which can lead...

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