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01 Jan 1992
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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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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Article
English
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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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Working/Policy Paper
English
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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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01 Feb 2004
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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A Building Development Plan at Laval University, Quebec
Gilles Daoust, Pages: 4
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PEB Exchange, Programme on Educational Building
Laval University is launching a series of major development projects aimed at meeting the needs of an institution that currently offers over 350 academic programmes to more than 36 000 students. This article will focus on three of the most important construction projects that are already under...
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11 May 2000
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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A Changing Financial Environment and the Implications for Monetary Policy
Paul Mylonas, Sebastian Schich, Gert Wehinger, Pages: 49
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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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25 Mar 2013
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Article
English
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A common high standard for nuclear power plant exports: overview and analysis of the Nuclear Power Plant Exporters' Principles of Conduct
George Perkovich, Brian Radzinsky, Pages: 7–22
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Nuclear Law Bulletin
At this time, there is no overarching global framework to regulate the development of the nuclear power industry. Laws concerning the export of nuclear technology vary across jurisdictions, and politically-binding arrangements such as the Nuclear ...
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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
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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 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
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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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11 Dec 2003
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Article
English
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A Comparison Between Two Public Expenditure Management Systems in Africa
Ian Lienert, Pages: 35–66
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Many African countries are benefiting from reductions in their external debt. One important objective is to redirect the budgetary resources released from servicing external debt towards poverty-reducing expenditures. Several questions arise in this ...
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14 June 2006
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Article
English
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A comparison of structural productivity levels in the major industrialised countries
Renaud Bourlès, Gilbert Cette, Pages: 75–108
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OECD Economic Studies
Hourly labour productivity, along with average hours worked, the employment rate and the working-age population as a share of the total population, is one of the accounting aggregates that determine per capita GDP. Yet according to many analyses ...
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01 Jan 2000
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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A Comparison on the EC Procurement Directives and the UNCITRAL Model Law
OECD, Pages: 31
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Sigma Papers
This chart compares the EC Procurement Directives and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services. Most central and eastern European countries used the Model Law as the basis of their public procurement laws in the early 1990s. Now that many countries of the region...
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19 Oct 2006
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Article
English
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A Contribution to the "Purchasing Power Parity vs. Market Exchange Rates for Use in Long-Term Scenarios" Discussion
OECD, 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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01 Nov 2009
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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A Cost-Benefit Framework for the Assessment of Non-Tariff Measures in Agro-Food Trade
Frank van Tongeren, John Beghin, Stéphane Marette, Pages: 73
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OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers
This report develops a conceptual framework for the assessment of costs and benefits associated with non-tariff measures that allows an evidence-based comparative assessment of alternative regulatory approaches.
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20 Feb 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
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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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01 Apr 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
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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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Working/Policy Paper
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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 May 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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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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01 Aug 2008
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Working/Policy Paper
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A Farewell to Policy Conditionality?
Andrew Mold, Felix Zimmermann, Pages: 2
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OECD Development Centre Policy Insights
The idea of local "ownership" of development policies is now popular among the donor community, but without a reduction of conditionality on aid disbursements, enhanced ownership will be difficult to achieve.
While there are still strong reasons for attaching certain kinds of conditionality to...
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20 Apr 2009
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Article
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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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