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31 Oct 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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A Comparative Analysis of Health Forecasting Methods
Roberto Astolfi, Luca Lorenzoni, Jillian Oderkirk, Pages: 121
in
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 July 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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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
in
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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20 Feb 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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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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Article
English
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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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08 Feb 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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A Literature Review of School Practices to Overcome School Failure
Brenton Faubert, Pages: 35
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OECD Education Working Papers
This working paper was prepared as part of the OECD thematic review Overcoming School Failure: Policies
that Work, www.oecd.org/edu/equity. The project provides evidence on the policies that are effective to reduce
school failure by improving low attainment and reducing dropout, and proactively...
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05 Jan 2012
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Article
English
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A Note on Band-Pass Filters Based on the Hodrick-Prescott Filter and the OECD System of Composite Leading Indicators
Hiroshi Yamada, Pages: 105–109
in
OECD Journal: Journal of Business Cycle Measurement and Analysis
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) began to use a band-pass filter, based on the Hodrick-Prescott filter (HPband-pass filter), to calculate the composite leading indicators (CLIs) in December2008. Other than the filter ...
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27 Jan 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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A Policy Strategy for Carbon Capture and Storage
IEA, Pages: 56
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IEA Energy Papers
Successful deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) is critically dependent on comprehensive policy support. While policy plays an important role in the deployment of many low-carbon technologies, it is especially crucial for CCS. This is because, in contrast to renewable energy or...
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08 Oct 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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A Roadmap to Funding Infrastructure Development
Carlos Ugarte, Gabriel Gutierrez, Nick Phillips, Pages: 26
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International Transport Forum Discussion Papers
This paper discusses the initiatives and procedures necessary for the successful development of large-scale transportation PPP projects from a developer’s point of view...
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07 June 2012
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Article
English
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A survey of international practice in university admissions testing
Daniel Edwards, Hamish Coates, Tim Friedman, Pages: 1–18
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Higher Education Management and Policy
This paper explores how admissions tests are used in different higher education systems around the world. This is a relatively new area of research, despite the fact that admissions processes are a key component of university practices and given the ...
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06 Feb 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Access to Education Over the Working Life in Sweden: Priorities, Institutions and Efficiency
Anders Stenberg, Pages: 28
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OECD Education Working Papers
To facilitate individuals to adjust their skills to changes in market demands, Sweden has a relatively
generous policy to stimulate formal adult education at the compulsory, upper secondary and tertiary levels.
This paper provides an overview of what research has reported to assess if and/or...
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25 May 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Accountability in Decentralised Employment Service Regimes
Hugh G. Mosley, Pages: 43
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OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Working Papers
The Accountability in Decentralised Employment Service Regimes report, prepared by independent expert Hugh Mosely, compares and contrasts four OECD countries with decentralised delivery systems for managing active labour market policy (Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark). This report...
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05 June 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Achieving the "Low Carbon, Green Growth" Vision in Korea
Randall S. Jones, Byungseo Yoo, Pages: 34
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
Korea, which has had the highest growth rate of greenhouse gas emissions in the OECD area since
1990, adopted an ambitious Green Growth Strategy in 2009. It aims at reducing emissions by 30% by 2020
relative to a "business as usual" scenario, implying a 4% cut from the 2005 level. The Strategy...
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05 Oct 2012
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Article
French
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Activités des organisations intergouvernementales
OECD, Nuclear Energy Agency, Pages: 153–159
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Bulletin de droit nucléaire
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26 Mar 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Adaptation and Innovation: An Analysis of Crop Biotechnology Patent Data
Shardul Agrawala, Cécile Bordier, Victoria Schreitter, Valerie Karplus, Pages: 40
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OECD Environment Working Papers
Innovation in technologies that promote mitigation and adaptation will be critical for tackling climate change. It can decrease the costs of policy measures and provide new opportunities for the private sector. However, most discussions of innovation have focused on mitigation, while little...
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25 June 2007
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Article
English
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Administrative Decisions
OECD, Nuclear Energy Agency, Pages: 57–58
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Nuclear Law Bulletin
Sweden Environmental Court Decision on Initial Measures for the Dismantling of Barsebäck (2006)*
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27 Mar 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Ageing and Skills: A Review and Analysis of Skill Gain and Skill Loss Over the Lifespan and Over Time
Richard Desjardins, Arne Jonas Warnke, Pages: 85
in
OECD Education Working Papers
The relationship between ageing and skills is becoming an important policy issue, not least in the context of population ageing. Data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will potentially add considerably to the understanding of the relationship...
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09 Oct 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Alternative Ways of Financing Infrastructure Investment: Potential for ‘Novel' Financing Models
Andrew Meaney, Peter Hope, Pages: 45
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International Transport Forum Discussion Papers
This paper examines the issue of financing infrastructure investment projects. It looks closely at what the market failures are that mean the private sector has not been able to cover the investment requirement itself. It will then assess the government failures associated with intervention,...
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30 July 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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An Analysis of Productivity Performance in Spain Before and During the Crisis: Exploring the Role of Institutions
Juan S. Mora Sanguinetti, Andrés Fuentes, Pages: 40
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
The Spanish economy experienced significantly weaker labour productivity growth than other OECD
economies and failed to catch up with the most advanced economies in the period 1996-2007. In recent
years labour productivity growth has accelerated, but this recovery is likely to be due to...
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21 Nov 2012
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Article
English
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An Analysis of the Embedded Frequency Content of Macroeconomic Indicators and their Counterparts using the Hilbert-Huang Transform
Patrick M. Crowley, Tony Schildt, Pages: 1–31
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OECD Journal: Journal of Business Cycle Measurement and Analysis
Many indicators of business and growth cycles have been constructed by both private and public agencies and are now in use as monitoring devices of economic conditions and for forecasting purposes. As these indicators are largely composite ...
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16 Jan 2012
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Article
English
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An international assessment of bachelor degree graduates' learning outcomes
Hamish Coates, Sarah Richardson, Pages: 1–19
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Higher Education Management and Policy
This paper examines rationales, aspirations, assumptions and methods shaping an international assessment of learning outcomes: the OECD’s Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) feasibility study. The first part of the paper is ...
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