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11 Dec 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Systemically Important Banks and Capital Regulation Challenges
Patrick Slovik, Pages: 18
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
Bank regulation might have contributed to or even reinforced adverse systemic shocks that
materialised during the financial crisis. Capital regulation based on risk-weighted assets encourages
innovation designed to circumvent regulatory requirements and shifts banks’ focus away from their...
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02 Aug 2004
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Article
English
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Systemic Responsiveness in Tertiary Education: An Agenda for Reform
William G. Tierney, Pages: 73–93
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Higher Education Management and Policy
Over the last several years the author conducted 126 interviews and held four focus groups with academic staff, administrators and others associated with Australian universities, about the problems and challenges they believed faced the system of ...
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18 Mar 2011
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Article
English
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Systemic Financial Crises: How to Fund Resolution
Sebastian Schich, Byoung-Hwan Kim, Pages: 1–34
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OECD Journal: Financial Market Trends
Systemic financial crises are a recurrent phenomenon, and despite regulatory efforts they are likely to occur again. This report compares the ex ante funding of deposit insurance schemes in a selection of countries, highlighting the "funding gap ...
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31 Mar 2010
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Article
English
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System accreditation: an innovative approach to assure and develop the quality of study programmes in Germany
Tanja Grendel, Christoph Rosenbusch, Pages: 1–12
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Higher Education Management and Policy
"System accreditation" is a new approach developed for German universities to conduct the mandatory accreditation of all their study programmes. A pilot project at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz is playing an important role in paving the way ...
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19 July 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Synergies Between Trade in Environmental Services and Trade in Environmental Goods
Ronald Steenblik, Dominique Drouet, George Stubbs, Pages: 58
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OECD Trade and Environment Working Papers
This paper examines the synergistic relationships between trade in environmental services and trade in environmental goods. It forms part of a series of OECD studies that analyse various issues related to Paragraph 31(iii) of the World Trade Organization’s 2001 Doha Development Agenda, which...
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25 Feb 2009
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Article
English
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Swiss GDP revisions: A monetary policy perspective
Nicolas Cuche-Curti, Pamela Hall, Attilio Zanetti, Pages: 183–213
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OECD Journal: Journal of Business Cycle Measurement and Analysis
This paper focuses on Swiss GDP revisions and the uncertainty they generate from the point of view of monetary policy. After a description of the revisions features, we use GDP vintages to compute real-time output gaps using a production function ...
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13 Sep 2010
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Sustaining the Momentum of Fiscal Reform in Hungary
Colin Forthun, Robert P. Hagemann, Pages: 39
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
Hungary has faced a considerable challenge to regain credibility following persistent and high fiscal deficits. Efforts during recent years have produced substantial results. The fiscal deficit has been brought down significantly and, despite the recession, fiscal consolidation has continued to...
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20 Dec 2010
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Article
English
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Sustaining leadership in challenging times
Robin Middlehurst, Pages: 1–19
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Higher Education Management and Policy
Some governments hit by recession have chosen to invest in higher education as part of long-term economic and social development and international competitiveness agendas; others have opted for a route of cuts, financial stringency and contraction ...
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05 June 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Sustaining Korea's Convergence to the Highest-Income Countries
Randall S. Jones, Satoshi Urasawa, Pages: 46
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
While Korea remains one of the fastest-growing OECD economies, its potential growth rate per capita is projected to
decelerate from around 4% during the current decade to around 2¼ per cent during the 2030s. Sustaining growth
requires policies to mitigate the impact of rapid population ageing...
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20 Dec 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Sustaining High Growth Through Innovation: Reforming the R&D and Education Systems in Korea
Yongchun Baek, Randall S. Jones, Pages: 53
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
With inputs of labour and capital slowing, sustaining high growth rates in Korea will increasingly depend on total factor productivity gains, which are in turn driven to a large extent by innovation. While a
number of Korean firms are at the world technology frontier in areas such as ICT, the...
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20 Feb 2009
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Sustaining Growth in Korea by Reforming the Labour Market and Improving the Education System
Randall S. Jones, Masahiko Tsutsumi, Pages: 42
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
A well-functioning labour market is essential to sustain rapid economic growth in the face of
population ageing. Priorities are to reverse the rising share of non-regular workers, which has negative
implications for both growth and equity, and encourage greater employment of women and youth,...
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01 Feb 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Sustainable Tourism and Local Development in Apulia Region
Neil MacCallum, Thierry Baert, Pierfelice Rosato, Stefano Barbieri, Pages: 117
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OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Working Papers
This document intends to provide a discussion of issues related to tourism and local development in Apulia region (Italy), an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current practices in related policy implementation, and recommendations and guidance on how the Apulia Government can...
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01 Feb 2010
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Sustainable Production of Second-Generation Biofuels: Potential and Perspectives in Major Economies and Developing Countries
Anselm Eisentraut, Pages: 221
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IEA Energy Papers
Global biofuel production has been increasing rapidly over the last decade, but the expanding biofuel industry has recently raised important concerns. In particular, the sustainability of many first-generation biofuels – which are produced primarily from food crops such as grains, sugar cane...
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01 Jan 1998
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Sustainable Institutions for European Union Membership
OECD, Pages: 27
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Sigma Papers
Countries that are candidates for European Union (EU) accession face the complex and urgent task of
building administrative institutions so that they can fulfil the "Copenhagen criteria". Such institutions
must be able to implement the acquis communautaire within tight budget constraints and...
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01 June 2008
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Sustainable Education Campus in Spain: Nature and Architecture for Training
Pablo Campos Calvo-Sotelo, Pages: 7
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PEB Exchange, Programme on Educational Building
The sustainable education campus project for San Agustín de Guadalix is based on an innovative
concept of urbanism and architecture. The campus design and landscape aim to support training and
exemplify sustainability.
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28 July 1999
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Sustainable Economic Growth: Natural Resources and the Environment in Norway
Paul van den Noord, Ann Vourc'h, Pages: 59
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This document examines Norwegian policy on managing natural and environmental resources. These issues, and more generally the challenges of sustainable development, are primary concerns of the authorities in Norway, a country richly endowed with natural resources. Substantial action has been...
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23 Aug 2007
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Article
English
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Sustainable Development Finance for Cities and Regions
OECD, Pages: 1–14
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OECD Papers
Becoming a successful city involves achieving a high investment/high return equilibrium, just as much as it does for the most successful businesses. Success in the open knowledge driven global economy requires places to be truly distinctive ...
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07 Dec 2005
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Article
English
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Sustainable Budget Policy: Concepts and Approaches
Allen Schick, Pages: 107–126
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Concern about fiscal sustainability has been fueled by the projected ageing of populations in OECD countries and the likely surge in government spending on pensions and health care. For the most part, it has not been driven by worries about the ...
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01 Dec 2007
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Sustainable Biofuels for the Transport Sector
Brigitte Ahring, Pages: 14
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OECD/ITF Joint Transport Research Centre Discussion Papers
The transport sector is almost fully dependent on oil-derived products and in both the
United States and in Europe this sector contributes with about one third of total
energy consumption and about 30 % of the CO2 emissions. The transport sector is
forecasted to contribute with 90 % of the...
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01 Feb 1998
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Sustainable and Excessive Current Account Deficits
Helmut Reisen, Pages: 29
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
Large current account deficits are often assumed to play an important role in the propagation of financial crises in emerging markets in receipt of heavy private capital inflows. This paper reaches some major conclusions. First, the Lawson Doctrine — according to which current account deficits...
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