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No. 112 | 01 Jan 1992 |
The Welfare Effects of Fossil Carbon Restrictions
This paper forms part of an OECD project which addresses the issue of the cost of reducing CO2 emissions by comparing the results from six global models of a set of standardised reduction scenarios. The project provides evidence on: i)projected... |
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No. 111 | 01 Jan 1992 |
Global 2100
This paper forms part of an OECD project which addresses the issue of the cost of reducing CO2 emissions by comparing the results from six global models of a set of standardised reduction scenarios. The project provides evidence on: i)projected... |
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No. 110 | 01 Jan 1992 |
Energy Taxation and Price Distortions in Fossil Fuel Markets
In response to the potential threat of global warming many countries are considering cost effective policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In this context much attention has been paid to taxes levied on the carbon content of fuels (carbon... |
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No. 109 | 01 Apr 1992 |
The Information Content of Interest Rate Spreads Across Financial Systems
This paper examines whether information asymmetries and agency costs vary across OECD countries depending on the nature of their financial system. It does this by examining whether the predictive power of the spread between yields on private and... |
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No. 108 | 01 Apr 1992 |
Is There a Future for Capital Income Taxation?
This paper examines the future of capital income taxation in a world of capital mobility. It first explores the motivation for personal and corporate income taxation in an open economy and argues that policymakers should view these taxes as having... |
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No. 107 | 01 Jan 1992 |
A "Credit Crunch"?
This paper examines the recent slowdown in bank lending that has affected several large OECD countries. The analysis begins with a description of the importance of bank credit in the financial systems of the countries considered. The origins of the... |
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No. 106 | 01 Jan 1991 |
Energy Prices, Taxes and Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Taxes levied on the carbon content of fuels (carbon taxes) are being considered in many OECD countries as a possible policy instrument to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. This paper first reviews the policy response in Member countries to the threat... |
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No. 105 | 01 Jan 1991 |
Savings Trends and Measurement Issues
Saving has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Research has focused on questions about its adequacy, determinants and measurement. This paper considers the latter issue. The main trends in world-wide and OECD-area saving over the last two... |
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No. 104 | 01 Jun 1991 |
GREEN - - A Multi-Region Dynamic General Equilibrium Model for Quantifying the Costs of Curbing CO2 Emissions
The OECD Secretariat has developed a multi-region, multi-sector, dynamic applied general equilibrium (AGE) model to quantify the economy-wide and global costs of policies to curb emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). The project is called the GeneRal... |
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No. 103 | 01 Jun 1991 |
The Costs of Policies to Reduce Global Emissions of CO2
The OECD Secretariat has developed a multi-region, multi-sector. dynamic general equilibrium model to quantify the economy-wide and global costs of policies to curb emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). The project is called the GeneRal Equilibrium... |
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No. 102 | 01 Jun 1991 |
Patterns of Recoveries for the Major Seven OECD Countries
The paper reviews some key characteristics of the recoveries experienced by the seven major OECD countries in the 1970s and 1980s. It presents data on the cyclical evolution of demand components, fiscal and monetary variables, labour market and... |
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No. 101 | 01 Mar 1991 |
P-Star as an Indicator of Inflationary Pressure
The P-star approach has been developed by the U.S. Federal Reserve as a new indicator of inflationary pressures. This paper assesses its usefulness for 20 OECD Member countries. Regression results are presented and in-sample tracking ability and... |
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No. 100 | 01 Apr 1991 |
Old Age Income Maintenance
The rapid increase -- over the next thirty years -- in the population share of persons above retirement age has led to a steady increase in attention paid by OECD Governments to questions concerning old age income maintenance. The attached paper... |
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No. 99 | 01 May 1991 |
The Measurement of Output and Factors of Production for the Business Sector in OECD Countries (The OECD Business Sector Database)
This paper describes a Business Sector Data Base (BSDB) for OECD countries constructed in the context of recent work of the OECD Economics and Statistics Department. It discusses many of the problems of consistency between the usual sources of... |
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No. 98 | 01 Feb 1991 |
Macroeconomic Consequences of Financial Liberalisation
This paper brings together a number of interrelated issues concerning the implications of financial liberalisation for macroeconomic outcomes. Deregulation has tended to reduce the importance of liquidity constraints within and between countries,... |
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No. 97 | 01 Feb 1991 |
Deregulation, Credit Rationing, Financial Fragility and Economic Performance
This paper is one of four in this Working Paper Series, focusing on financial liberalisation, along with those of Miller and Weller, Kupiec and Blundell-Wignall and Browne. Its main purpose is to evaluate the imperfections still affecting deregulated... |
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No. 96 | 01 Feb 1991 |
Increasing Financial Market Integration, Real Exchange Rates and Macroeconomic Adjustment
This paper is one of four in this Working Paper Series, focusing on financial liberalisation, along with those of Kupiec, Miller and Weller, and Driscoll. It examines the extent to which international financial markets have become more integrated... |
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No. 95 | 01 Feb 1991 |
Financial Liberalisation, Asset Prices and Exchange Rates
This paper is one of four in this Working Paper Series, focusing on financial liberalisation, along with those of Kupiec, Driscoll and Blundell-Wignall and Browne. It surveys recent work, both theoretical and empirical, on the question of market... |
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No. 94 | 01 Feb 1991 |
Financial Liberalisation and International Trends in Stock, Corporate Bond and Foreign Exchange Market Volatilities
This paper is one of four in this Working Paper series, focusing on financial liberalisation, along with those by Miller and Weller, Driscoll, and Blundell-Wignall and Browne. It examines the historical volatilities of stock, bond and foreign... |
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No. 93 | 01 Feb 1991 |
A Macroeconomic Model for Debt Analysis of the Latin America Region and Debt Accounting Models for the Highly Indebted Countries
During the 1980s, following the Mexican payments crisis of August 1982, a number of debt "plans" and "strategies" have been introduced, but overall progress in resolving the situation has been slow. This paper results from a project to investigate... |
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The Welfare Effects of Fossil Carbon Restrictions
Thomas Rutherford
01 Jan 1992
This paper forms part of an OECD project which addresses the issue of the cost of reducing CO2 emissions by comparing the results from six global models of a set of standardised reduction scenarios. The project provides evidence on: i)projected...
Global 2100
Alan S. Manne
01 Jan 1992
This paper forms part of an OECD project which addresses the issue of the cost of reducing CO2 emissions by comparing the results from six global models of a set of standardised reduction scenarios. The project provides evidence on: i)projected...
Energy Taxation and Price Distortions in Fossil Fuel Markets
Peter Hoeller and Jonathan Coppel
01 Jan 1992
In response to the potential threat of global warming many countries are considering cost effective policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In this context much attention has been paid to taxes levied on the carbon content of fuels (carbon...
The Information Content of Interest Rate Spreads Across Financial Systems
Frank Browne and Warren Tease
01 Apr 1992
This paper examines whether information asymmetries and agency costs vary across OECD countries depending on the nature of their financial system. It does this by examining whether the predictive power of the spread between yields on private and...
Is There a Future for Capital Income Taxation?
Jack M. Mintz
01 Apr 1992
This paper examines the future of capital income taxation in a world of capital mobility. It first explores the motivation for personal and corporate income taxation in an open economy and argues that policymakers should view these taxes as having...
A "Credit Crunch"?
Paul Francis O'Brien and Frank Browne
01 Jan 1992
This paper examines the recent slowdown in bank lending that has affected several large OECD countries. The analysis begins with a description of the importance of bank credit in the financial systems of the countries considered. The origins of the...
Energy Prices, Taxes and Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Peter Hoeller and Markku Wallin
01 Jan 1991
Taxes levied on the carbon content of fuels (carbon taxes) are being considered in many OECD countries as a possible policy instrument to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. This paper first reviews the policy response in Member countries to the threat...
Savings Trends and Measurement Issues
Jørgen Elmeskov, Jeffrey Shafer and Warren Tease
01 Jan 1991
Saving has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Research has focused on questions about its adequacy, determinants and measurement. This paper considers the latter issue. The main trends in world-wide and OECD-area saving over the last two...
GREEN - - A Multi-Region Dynamic General Equilibrium Model for Quantifying the Costs of Curbing CO2 Emissions
Jean-Marc Burniaux, John P. Martin, Giuseppe Nicoletti and Joaquim Oliveira Martins
01 Jun 1991
The OECD Secretariat has developed a multi-region, multi-sector, dynamic applied general equilibrium (AGE) model to quantify the economy-wide and global costs of policies to curb emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). The project is called the GeneRal...
The Costs of Policies to Reduce Global Emissions of CO2
Jean-Marc Burniaux, John P. Martin, Giuseppe Nicoletti and Joaquim Oliveira Martins
01 Jun 1991
The OECD Secretariat has developed a multi-region, multi-sector. dynamic general equilibrium model to quantify the economy-wide and global costs of policies to curb emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). The project is called the GeneRal Equilibrium...
Patterns of Recoveries for the Major Seven OECD Countries
Marco Mira d'Ercole
01 Jun 1991
The paper reviews some key characteristics of the recoveries experienced by the seven major OECD countries in the 1970s and 1980s. It presents data on the cyclical evolution of demand components, fiscal and monetary variables, labour market and...
P-Star as an Indicator of Inflationary Pressure
Peter Hoeller and Pierre Poret
01 Mar 1991
The P-star approach has been developed by the U.S. Federal Reserve as a new indicator of inflationary pressures. This paper assesses its usefulness for 20 OECD Member countries. Regression results are presented and in-sample tracking ability and...
Old Age Income Maintenance
Murray Petrie and Peter Sturm
01 Apr 1991
The rapid increase -- over the next thirty years -- in the population share of persons above retirement age has led to a steady increase in attention paid by OECD Governments to questions concerning old age income maintenance. The attached paper...
The Measurement of Output and Factors of Production for the Business Sector in OECD Countries (The OECD Business Sector Database)
Mark Keese, Gérard Salou and Pete Richardson
01 May 1991
This paper describes a Business Sector Data Base (BSDB) for OECD countries constructed in the context of recent work of the OECD Economics and Statistics Department. It discusses many of the problems of consistency between the usual sources of...
Macroeconomic Consequences of Financial Liberalisation
Adrian Blundell-Wignall and Frank Browne
01 Feb 1991
This paper brings together a number of interrelated issues concerning the implications of financial liberalisation for macroeconomic outcomes. Deregulation has tended to reduce the importance of liquidity constraints within and between countries,...
Deregulation, Credit Rationing, Financial Fragility and Economic Performance
Michael Driscoll
01 Feb 1991
This paper is one of four in this Working Paper Series, focusing on financial liberalisation, along with those of Miller and Weller, Kupiec and Blundell-Wignall and Browne. Its main purpose is to evaluate the imperfections still affecting deregulated...
Increasing Financial Market Integration, Real Exchange Rates and Macroeconomic Adjustment
Adrian Blundell-Wignall and Frank Browne
01 Feb 1991
This paper is one of four in this Working Paper Series, focusing on financial liberalisation, along with those of Kupiec, Miller and Weller, and Driscoll. It examines the extent to which international financial markets have become more integrated...
Financial Liberalisation, Asset Prices and Exchange Rates
Marcus Miller and Paul Weller
01 Feb 1991
This paper is one of four in this Working Paper Series, focusing on financial liberalisation, along with those of Kupiec, Driscoll and Blundell-Wignall and Browne. It surveys recent work, both theoretical and empirical, on the question of market...
Financial Liberalisation and International Trends in Stock, Corporate Bond and Foreign Exchange Market Volatilities
Paul Kupiec
01 Feb 1991
This paper is one of four in this Working Paper series, focusing on financial liberalisation, along with those by Miller and Weller, Driscoll, and Blundell-Wignall and Browne. It examines the historical volatilities of stock, bond and foreign...
A Macroeconomic Model for Debt Analysis of the Latin America Region and Debt Accounting Models for the Highly Indebted Countries
Peter Dittus and Paul S. O'Brien
01 Feb 1991
During the 1980s, following the Mexican payments crisis of August 1982, a number of debt "plans" and "strategies" have been introduced, but overall progress in resolving the situation has been slow. This paper results from a project to investigate...