In this paper, a new approach to disclose the impact of politics on economic growth is presented: we use data derived from content analysis of party manifestos as measures of party preferences. In a panel of 23 OECD countries, we detect a positive impact of party support for various...

Introduction by the Secretary-General -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- The OECD approach -- The measurement framework -- Towards an OECD set of "Green Growth" indicators -- The measurement agenda -- The socio-economic context and characteristics of growth -- Monitoring the environmental and...

Total factor productivity of twenty OECD countries for a recent period (1971-2002) is explained using six different models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present paper it is shown that – when this variable is added...