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01 jan 1992
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A "Credit Crunch"?: The Recent Slowdown in Bank Lending and Its Implications for Monetary Policy
Paul Francis O'Brien, Frank Browne, Pages: 60
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
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 lending slowdown are analysed - - including...
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02 jan 2007
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Anglais
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A Balancing Act: Fiscal Responsibility, Accountability and the Power of the Purse
Alta Fölscher, Pages: 1–20
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
In recent years a greater demand for strengthening the role of the legislature in the budget process has become evident worldwide: more than a quarter of countries have revised their constitutions over the last 15 years to give Parliament more ...
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28 jan 2010
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A Bird's Eye View of OECD Housing Markets
Christophe André, Pages: 55
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
Housing markets have played a prominent role in macroeconomic developments over recent years.
For a great part of the 2000s, buoyant housing markets have contributed to sustained economic activity in
most OECD countries. But many markets overheated and the collapse of the US subprime...
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11 mai 2000
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A Changing Financial Environment and the Implications for Monetary Policy
Paul Mylonas, Sebastian Schich, Gert Wehinger, Pages: 49
in
OECD Economics Department Working Papers
Monetary policy affects activity, and ultimately inflation, in a number of ways. The most important of these is generally considered to be through the effect of interest rates directly on the demand for goods by households and firms. However, monetary policy can also influence activity through...
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31 oct 2012
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Anglais
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A Comparative Analysis of Health Forecasting Methods
Roberto Astolfi, Luca Lorenzoni, Jillian Oderkirk, Pages: 121
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OECD Health Working Papers
Concerns about health expenditure growth and its long-term sustainability have stimulated the
development of health expenditure forecasting models in many OECD countries. This comparative
analysis reviewed 25 models that were developed by, or used for, policy analysis by OECD member
countries...
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01 jui 2012
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A Comparative Study of Risk Management in Agriculture under Climate Change
Jesús Antón, Shingo Kimura, Jussi Lankoski, Andrea Cattaneo, Pages: 89
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OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers
Climate change affects the mean and variability of weather conditions and the frequency of extreme events, which to a great extent determines the variability of production and yields. This paper reviews the scientific literature on the impacts of climate change on yield variance and...
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19 oct 2006
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Article
Anglais
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A Contribution to the "Purchasing Power Parity vs. Market Exchange Rates for Use in Long-Term Scenarios" Discussion
OCDE, Pages: 1–19
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OECD Papers
Market Exchange Rates (MER) balance the demand and supply for international currencies, while Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) exchange rates capture the differences between the cost of a given bundle of goods and services in different countries. When ...
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20 fév 2012
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Anglais
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A Critical Analysis of the Technical Assumptions of the Standard Micro Portfolio Approach to Sovereign Debt Management
Hans J. Blommestein, Anja Hubig, Pages: 27
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OECD Working Papers on Sovereign Borrowing and Public Debt Management
This paper examines the analytical underpinnings of the standard micro portfolio approach to public debt management (PDM) that aims at minimising longer-term cash-flow based borrowing costs at an acceptable level of risk. The study concludes that two technical key assumptions need to hold for...
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05 jan 2012
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Anglais
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A Cyclical Analysis of Economic Activity in Serbia
Jelena Radovic-Stojanovic, Pages: 5–28
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OECD Journal: Journal of Business Cycle Measurement and Analysis
The paper presents the results of the first application of cyclical analysis to economic activity in Serbia. The analysis refers to the period 2001-07, which marked the start of democratic and economic reforms, since short term fluctuations in ...
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01 avr 2011
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A Delicate Balance: Mobility and Access Needs, Expectations and Costs
David Metz, Pages: 25
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International Transport Forum Discussion Papers
Mobility has been central to economic development and social progress in the modern era. There is emerging evidence, however, that personal daily travel has recently ceased to grow in developed economies. The historic increase in mobility served to enlarge access to desired destinations and...
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01 nov 1993
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A Detailed Input-Output Table for Morocco, 1990
Maurizio Bussolo, David Roland-Holst, Pages: 68
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
This paper reports on the construction of an Input-Output table for the economy of Morocco. The table is calibrated to the year 1990 and details the interactions between 133 primary, manufacturing, and service sectors, relying on a combination of a more aggregate table estimated by the Moroccan...
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31 mai 2011
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A Dynamic Factor Model for World Trade Growth
Stéphanie Guichard, Elena Rusticelli, Pages: 30
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper reviews the main monthly indicators that could help forecasting world trade and compares
different type of forecasting models using these indicators. In particular it develops dynamic factor models
(DFM) which have the advantage of handling larger datasets of information than bridge...
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20 avr 2009
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Article
Anglais
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A Faustian bargain? Institutional responses to national and international rankings
Peter W. A. West, Pages: 1–10
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Higher Education Management and Policy
In the highly competitive international world of learning, universities make full use of favourable league table positions to strengthen their reputations. Yet are they, in so doing, entering into a Faustian Bargain in which the long-term cost ...
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01 fév 1990
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A Financial Computable General Equilibrium Model for the Analysis of Ecuador's Stabilization Programs
André Fargeix, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Pages: 45
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
This paper presents an application to Ecuador of a computable general equilibrium model with a financial component, following the lead of F. Bourguignon, W. Branson and J. de Melo. Their macro-micro model was introduced in Technical Paper No.1 "Macroeconomic Adjustment and Income Distribution....
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24 jan 2008
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A Framework for Addressing and Measuring Entrepreneurship
Nadim Ahmad, Anders Hoffman, Pages: 37
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OECD Statistics Working Papers
In recent years entrepreneurship has become a buzzword that?s entered the mainstream. Politicians
continuously cite its importance and the need to create more entrepreneurial societies, and newspapers and
television programmes frequently create themes around successful entrepreneurs. But, the...
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07 juin 2010
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A Framework for Assessing Green Growth Policies
Alain de Serres, Fabrice Murtin, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Pages: 71
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper proposes an analytical framework for assessing policies that will contribute to a better
integration of environmental externalities in the pursuit of economic efficiency and growth objectives. The
framework consists of two parts. The first part lays out principles and criteria for...
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18 oct 2011
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A Framework for Assessing the Marginal External Accident Cost of Road Use and its Implications for Insurance Ratemaking
Lasse Fridstrøm, Pages: 27
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International Transport Forum Discussion Papers
The external accident cost of road use is a function of the marginal relationship between road use and accidents, as expressed, for instance, by the elasticity. This elasticity is, however, not necessarily constant, but may be assumed to depend on the traffic volume as seen in relation to road...
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18 oct 2008
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A Framework for Monitoring Transition Systems
Rolf K.W. van der Velden, Maarten H.J. Wolbers, Pages: 65
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OECD Education Working Papers
With its publication of the Thematic Review on the Transition from Initial Education to Working Life in
2000, OECD has laid the foundation for the development of indicators regarding the transition from
education to work. One of the core activities of OECD’s Network B in 2005 and 2006 was to...
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12 jui 2010
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A Framework to Measure the Progress of Societies
Jon Hall, Enrico Giovannini, Adolfo Morrone, Giulia Ranuzzi, Pages: 27
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OECD Statistics Working Papers
Over the last three decades, a number of frameworks have been developed to promote and measure
well-being, quality of life, human development and sustainable development. Some frameworks use a
conceptual approach while others employ a consultative approach, and different initiatives to...
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08 nov 2005
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Article
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A Generalized Dynamic Factor Model for the Belgian Economy: Identification of the Business Cycle and GDP Growth Forecasts
Christophe van Nieuwenhuyze, Pages: 213–247
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Journal of Business Cycle Measurement and Analysis
This paper aims to identify the Belgian business cycle and forecast GDP growth based on a large data base of short-term conjunctural indicators. The data base consists of 509 indicators containing information on surveys of Belgium and its ...
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