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01 Jan 2001
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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B2B E-Commerce in Publishing, Retail Distribution and Pharmaceuticals Distribution in France
OECD, Pages: 47
in
OECD Digital Economy Papers
In early 1999, the OECD launched an internationally comparable study of the diffusion and
economic and competitive impacts of business-to-business electronic commerce over the Internet. A first
set of case studies was conducted in France between February 1999 and September 1999. Three...
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22 Jan 2004
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Background Paper for the OECD Workshop on Spam
OECD, Pages: 58
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OECD Digital Economy Papers
This background paper has been prepared to provide a broad overview of the issues associated with spam as information for participants at the OECD Workshop on Spam, to be held at the European Commission on 2-3 February 2004.
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18 Jan 2013
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Balancing Commercial and Non-Commercial Priorities of State-Owned Enterprises
Hans Christiansen, Pages: 53
in
OECD Corporate Governance Working Papers
The overarching question for the government owners of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) is why these companies need to be owned by the state. The OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises provides a "blueprint" for the corporatisation and commercialisation of such...
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17 Feb 2006
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Balancing Health Care Quality and Cost Containment: The Case of Norway
Alexandra Bibbee, Flavio Padrini, Pages: 41
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
In recent years, a series of wide-ranging reforms designed to make greater use of market mechanisms has
succeeded in eliminating shortages, raising efficiency and improving citizen satisfaction. Nevertheless, spending
accelerated after the reforms, and per capita spending on health is now one...
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03 Oct 2012
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Article
English
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Bank deleveraging, the move from bank to market-based financing, and SME financing
Gert Wehinger, Pages: 65–79
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OECD Journal: Financial Market Trends
Banks have been lowering their high pre-crisis leverage levels and are preparing for stricter regulatory capital requirements, and in the process have been reducing their lending. With the banking sector expected to shrink considerably, other ...
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29 Mar 2013
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Article
English
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Banking in a challenging environment: Business models, ethics and approaches towards risks
Gert Wehinger, Pages: 79–88
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OECD Journal: Financial Market Trends
The current crisis with its on-going banking sector problems has brought to the fore various cases of financial fraud and banking scandals that have additionally undermined the already low confidence in the sector. This has raised concerns about ...
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01 Mar 2007
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Banking on Democracy: The Political Economy of International Private Bank Lending in Emerging Markets
Javier Rodríguez, Javier Santiso, Pages: 62
in
OECD Development Centre Working Papers
Private capital movements have risen in recent decades, and bank flows have been part of
this story. Some empirical studies have analysed the political drivers of private international
liquidity, but paradoxically very few have looked at the political economy of bank flows. Even
less research...
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01 Nov 2007
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Banking on Development: Private Banks ans Aid Donors in Developing Countries
Javier Rodríguez, Javier Santiso, Pages: 51
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
Over the past decade we have witnessed a double convergence. Aid donors have
developed a growing interest in the private sector while private banks have set about creating
corporate social responsibility programs, sustainable lending and microfinance programmes. As
a consequence, the dialogue...
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11 Mar 2008
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Banking on Development. Private Financial Actors and Donors in Developing Countries
Javier Santiso, Pages: 28
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OECD Development Centre Policy Briefs
A large, untapped reservoir of potential partnerships between private financial institutions (banks, asset managers, private equity firms, etc.) and aid donors remains to be fully exploited. Banks, private equity and asset management firms are important parts of a broad set of private actors in...
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09 Nov 2004
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Banking Reform in Russia: Problems and Prospects
William Tompson, Pages: 47
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper examines the state of the Russian banking sector in 2004 and assesses the most important reform initiatives of the last two years, including deposit insurance legislation, a major reform of the framework for prudential supervision, steps to increase transparency in the sector, and...
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01 Jan 1985
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Working/Policy Paper
French
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Base de données compatibles sur le commerce et la production de l'OCDE
Derek Blades, Wendy Simpson, Pages: 81
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
La Base de données compatibles sur le commerce et la production (COMTAP) de l'OCDE a été établie par la Banque mondiale, sous la supervision générale du Professeur Jean Waelbroeck de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles. La Division des Statistiques Economiques et des Comptes Nationaux du Département des Affaires Economiques et Statistiques est...
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07 Nov 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Behavioural Economics and Environmental Incentives
Jason Shogren, Pages: 33
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OECD Environment Working Papers
This review aims to improve our understanding of the implications of the insights from behavioural economics for environmental policy design. The review focuses on the question of incentive design in two broad areas — risk, conflict and cooperation; and mechanism design. A number of lessons for...
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20 Oct 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Being "Middle-Class" in Latin America
Francesca Castellani, Gwenn Parent, Pages: 45
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
This paper joins the debate on the size of the middle class in Latin America, analysing its structure and characteristics. The paper investigates inter-class mobility potential and its evolution over time in the case of selected countries. As a result of the estimations, we find that Latin...
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01 June 2000
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Belgium, the Library of the ULB: After Five Years in Use
Christian Brouwer, Françoise Vandooren, Pages: 3
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PEB Exchange, Programme on Educational Building
The project to build a new library at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) arose because library resources and services had become scattered across the campus, due to a lack of space in the original library building. The facilities and services needed to be adapted to the evolution of...
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20 Oct 2006
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Article
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Benchmark on Computer Simulation of MASURCA Critical and Subcritical Experiments: MUSE-4 Benchmark
OECD, Pages: 1–43
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OECD Papers
The efficient and safe management of spent fuel produced during the operation of commercial nuclear power plants is an important issue. In this context, partitioning and transmutation (P&T) of minor actinides and long-lived fission products can play ...
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08 June 2005
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Article
English
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Benchmarking Systems of Seasonally Adjusted Time Series
Tommaso di Fonzo, Marco Marini, Pages: 89–123
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Journal of Business Cycle Measurement and Analysis
When a system of time series is seasonally adjusted, generally the accounting constraints originally linking the series are not fulfilled. To overcome this problem, we discuss an extension to a system of series linked by an accounting constraint of ...
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19 Nov 2007
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Article
English
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Benchmarks for Integrity: Tracking Trends in Governance
OECD, Pages: 1–33
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OECD Papers
The OECD, via its Ethics Infrastructure concept and Integrity Assessment Framework, is in the forefront as efforts to check corruption shift from diagnosing problems and prescribing countermeasures to the institutionalization and assessment of ...
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18 Jan 2013
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Beneficial Ownership and Control: A Comparative Study - Disclosure, Information and Enforcement
Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Pages: 68
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OECD Corporate Governance Working Papers
Investor confidence in financial markets depends in large part on the existence of an accurate disclosure regime that provides transparency in the beneficial ownership and control structures of publicly listed companies. This is particularly true for corporate governance systems that are...
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17 Dec 2004
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Benefit Coverage Rates and Household Typologies: Scope and Limitations of Tax-Benefit Indicators
Herwig Immervoll, Pascal Marianna, Marco Mira d'Ercole, Pages: 91
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OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
The OECD regularly produces estimates of tax burdens and benefit entitlements for a range of "typical household" situations. The results of these calculations (published in the Benefits and Wages and Taxing Wages series) are frequently used to compare countries’ tax-benefit systems and to...
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01 Jan 2007
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Benefit Protection: Priority Creditor Rights for Pension Funds
Fiona Stewart, Pages: 30
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OECD Working Papers on Insurance and Private Pensions
Underfunded pension funds are in the same position as other creditors when their sponsoring firm
becomes insolvent, having to join the queue claiming the remaining assets of the firm. Arguments for
granting pension fund priority rights over other creditors are the same as for introducing...
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