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No. 32 | 06 Jun 2023 |
Aiming better: Government support for households and firms during the energy crisis
Governments rapidly provided large support to help households and firms face the 2021-22 energy price crisis. Drawing on the OECD Energy Support Measures Tracker and country case studies, this paper documents countries’ policy responses and draws... |
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No. 31 | 04 Feb 2022 |
A framework to decarbonise the economy
Global progress towards tackling climate change is lagging. This paper puts forward a framework to design comprehensive decarbonisation strategies while promoting growth and social inclusion. It first highlights the need of evaluating a country’s... |
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No. 30 | 26 Nov 2021 |
Spurring growth and closing gaps through digitalisation in a post-COVID world: Policies to LIFT all boats
The full potential of digital technologies remains unrealised and their benefits unequally shared because of insufficient investment in enabling intangible assets and communication networks within and across countries. The COVID-19 shock poses new... |
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No. 29 | 19 Oct 2021 |
The long game: Fiscal outlooks to 2060 underline need for structural reform
This paper updates the long-term scenarios to 2060 last published in July 2018, with a special focus on fiscal sustainability and risks. In a baseline economic and fiscal scenario, trend real GDP growth for the OECD + G20 area declines from around 3%... |
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No. 28 | 14 Apr 2020 |
Synthesising good practices in fiscal federalism
The design of intergovernmental fiscal relations can help to ensure that tax and spending powers are assigned in a way to promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth. Decentralisation can enable sub-central governments to provide better public... |
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No. 27 | 10 Sept 2019 |
Fiscal challenges and inclusive growth in ageing societies
This paper was prepared in support of Japan’s G20 Presidency. It takes stock of ongoing and projected population ageing across G20 economies and its far-reaching implications for economic growth, productivity, inequality within and between... |
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No. 26 | 12 Feb 2019 |
Digital Dividend: Policies to Harness the Productivity Potential of Digital Technologies
This paper presents a range of policies to enhance adoption of digital technologies and firm productivity. It quantifies illustratively the effect of policy changes by combining the results of two recent OECD analyses on the drivers of adoption and... |
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No. 25 | 17 Dec 2018 |
Public finance structure and inclusive growth
Tax and spending reforms offer numerous opportunities to promote inclusive growth. There is potential for so-called win-win reforms that simultaneously boost economic output and enhance income equality. Other changes in the structure of public... |
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No. 24 | 17 Dec 2018 |
Tax Policies for Inclusive Growth
Against a backdrop of the widening income distribution in most countries, OECD governments need to formulate policies that support sustainable and inclusive economic growth. Tax policies play a crucial role in this endeavour. Both tax theory and... |
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No. 23 | 14 Feb 2019 |
Income redistribution across OECD countries
Income inequality has increased in most OECD countries over the past two decades. This is both because market incomes (wages, dividends, interest income) have become more unequally distributed, and also because redistribution through taxes and... |
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No. 22 | 12 Jul 2018 |
The Long View: Scenarios for the World Economy to 2060
This paper presents long-run economic projections for 46 countries, extending the short-run projections of the Spring 2018 OECD Economic Outlook. It first sets out a baseline scenario under the assumption that countries do not carry out institutional... |
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No. 21 | 06 Dec 2017 |
Confronting the zombies
Policies that spur more efficient corporate restructuring can revive productivity growth by targeting three inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of “zombie” firms (low productivity firms that would typically exit in a... |
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No. 20 | 22 Apr 2017 |
Strengthening economic resilience
Considering the deep and long-lasting impact of severe recessions, such as the 2008-09 financial crisis, it is important that measures be taken to minimise the risk of such event. But in doing so the benefits need to be balanced against the potential... |
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No. 19 | 15 Dec 2016 |
Enhancing Economic Flexibility
Reforms that boost growth by enhancing economic flexibility often meet strong opposition related to concerns that they may imply adverse consequences for categories of workers. This study investigates how making product or labour market regulation... |
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No. 18 | 23 Sept 2016 |
Cardiac Arrest or Dizzy Spell
World trade growth was rapid in the two decades prior to the global financial crisis but has halved subsequently. There are both structural and cyclical reasons for the slowdown. A deceleration in the rate of trade liberalisation post 2000 was... |
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No. 17 | 22 Sept 2016 |
Does Fiscal Decentralisation Foster Regional Convergence?
Across the OECD, GDP per capita is converging. In contrast, regional disparities – or differences in GDP per capita across jurisdictions – are rising, mainly as a result of widening productivity differences. Fiscal decentralisation could help reduce... |
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No. 16 | 28 Apr 2016 |
The Economic Consequences of Brexit
Membership of the European Union has contributed to the economic prosperity of the United Kingdom. Uncertainty about the outcome of the referendum has already started to weaken growth in the United Kingdom. A UK exit (Brexit) would be a major... |
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No. 15 | 01 Jul 2015 |
Prudent debt targets and fiscal frameworks
The sharp rise in debt experienced by most OECD countries raises questions about debt indicators and the prudent government debt level countries should target. It also raises questions about the fiscal frameworks needed to reach the prudent debt... |
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No. 14 | 11 Jun 2015 |
Finance and Inclusive Growth
Finance is a vital ingredient for economic growth, but there can also be too much of it. This study investigates what fifty years of data for OECD countries have to say about the role of the financial sector for economic growth and income inequality... |
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No. 13 | 01 Apr 2015 |
Structural reforms and income distribution
This paper provides new empirical evidence on the effects of structural policies on household disposable incomes at different income levels. More specifically, it investigates the extent to which structural policies have differential long-run impacts... |
OECD Economic Policy Papers
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Aiming better: Government support for households and firms during the energy crisis
Yannick Hemmerlé, Enes Sunel, Filippo Maria D’Arcangelo, Tobias Kruse, David Haugh, Álvaro Pina, Mauro Pisu, Cassandra Castle and Giuliana Sarcina
06 Jun 2023
Governments rapidly provided large support to help households and firms face the 2021-22 energy price crisis. Drawing on the OECD Energy Support Measures Tracker and country case studies, this paper documents countries’ policy responses and draws...
A framework to decarbonise the economy
Filippo Maria D’Arcangelo, Ilai Levin, Alessia Pagani, Mauro Pisu and Åsa Johansson
04 Feb 2022
Global progress towards tackling climate change is lagging. This paper puts forward a framework to design comprehensive decarbonisation strategies while promoting growth and social inclusion. It first highlights the need of evaluating a country’s...
Spurring growth and closing gaps through digitalisation in a post-COVID world: Policies to LIFT all boats
Mauro Pisu, Christina von Rüden, Hyunjeong Hwang and Giuseppe Nicoletti
26 Nov 2021
The full potential of digital technologies remains unrealised and their benefits unequally shared because of insufficient investment in enabling intangible assets and communication networks within and across countries. The COVID-19 shock poses new...
The long game: Fiscal outlooks to 2060 underline need for structural reform
Yvan Guillemette and David Turner
19 Oct 2021
This paper updates the long-term scenarios to 2060 last published in July 2018, with a special focus on fiscal sustainability and risks. In a baseline economic and fiscal scenario, trend real GDP growth for the OECD + G20 area declines from around 3%...
Synthesising good practices in fiscal federalism
Kass Forman, Sean Dougherty and Hansjörg Blöchliger
14 Apr 2020
The design of intergovernmental fiscal relations can help to ensure that tax and spending powers are assigned in a way to promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth. Decentralisation can enable sub-central governments to provide better public...
Fiscal challenges and inclusive growth in ageing societies
Dorothée Rouzet, Aida Caldera Sánchez, Theodore Renault and Oliver Roehn
10 Sept 2019
This paper was prepared in support of Japan’s G20 Presidency. It takes stock of ongoing and projected population ageing across G20 economies and its far-reaching implications for economic growth, productivity, inequality within and between...
Digital Dividend: Policies to Harness the Productivity Potential of Digital Technologies
Stéphane Sorbe, Peter Gal, Giuseppe Nicoletti and Christina Timiliotis
12 Feb 2019
This paper presents a range of policies to enhance adoption of digital technologies and firm productivity. It quantifies illustratively the effect of policy changes by combining the results of two recent OECD analyses on the drivers of adoption and...
Public finance structure and inclusive growth
Boris Cournède, Jean-Marc Fournier and Peter Hoeller
17 Dec 2018
Tax and spending reforms offer numerous opportunities to promote inclusive growth. There is potential for so-called win-win reforms that simultaneously boost economic output and enhance income equality. Other changes in the structure of public...
Tax Policies for Inclusive Growth
Robert Hagemann
17 Dec 2018
Against a backdrop of the widening income distribution in most countries, OECD governments need to formulate policies that support sustainable and inclusive economic growth. Tax policies play a crucial role in this endeavour. Both tax theory and...
Income redistribution across OECD countries
Orsetta Causa, James Browne and Anna Vindics
14 Feb 2019
Income inequality has increased in most OECD countries over the past two decades. This is both because market incomes (wages, dividends, interest income) have become more unequally distributed, and also because redistribution through taxes and...
The Long View: Scenarios for the World Economy to 2060
Yvan Guillemette and David Turner
12 Jul 2018
This paper presents long-run economic projections for 46 countries, extending the short-run projections of the Spring 2018 OECD Economic Outlook. It first sets out a baseline scenario under the assumption that countries do not carry out institutional...
Confronting the zombies
Dan Andrews, Müge Adalet McGowan and Valentine Millot
06 Dec 2017
Policies that spur more efficient corporate restructuring can revive productivity growth by targeting three inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of “zombie” firms (low productivity firms that would typically exit in a...
Strengthening economic resilience
Aida Caldera Sánchez, Alain de Serres, Filippo Gori, Mikkel Hermansen and Oliver Röhn
22 Apr 2017
Considering the deep and long-lasting impact of severe recessions, such as the 2008-09 financial crisis, it is important that measures be taken to minimise the risk of such event. But in doing so the benefits need to be balanced against the potential...
Enhancing Economic Flexibility
Boris Cournède, Oliver Denk, Paula Garda and Peter Hoeller
15 Dec 2016
Reforms that boost growth by enhancing economic flexibility often meet strong opposition related to concerns that they may imply adverse consequences for categories of workers. This study investigates how making product or labour market regulation...
Cardiac Arrest or Dizzy Spell
David Haugh, Alexandre Kopoin, Elena Rusticelli, David Turner and Richard Dutu
23 Sept 2016
World trade growth was rapid in the two decades prior to the global financial crisis but has halved subsequently. There are both structural and cyclical reasons for the slowdown. A deceleration in the rate of trade liberalisation post 2000 was...
Does Fiscal Decentralisation Foster Regional Convergence?
Hansjörg Blöchliger, David Bartolini and Sibylle Stossberg
22 Sept 2016
Across the OECD, GDP per capita is converging. In contrast, regional disparities – or differences in GDP per capita across jurisdictions – are rising, mainly as a result of widening productivity differences. Fiscal decentralisation could help reduce...
The Economic Consequences of Brexit
Rafal Kierzenkowski, Nigel Pain, Elena Rusticelli and Sanne Zwart
28 Apr 2016
Membership of the European Union has contributed to the economic prosperity of the United Kingdom. Uncertainty about the outcome of the referendum has already started to weaken growth in the United Kingdom. A UK exit (Brexit) would be a major...
Prudent debt targets and fiscal frameworks
Falilou Fall, Debra Bloch, Jean-Marc Fournier and Peter Hoeller
01 Jul 2015
The sharp rise in debt experienced by most OECD countries raises questions about debt indicators and the prudent government debt level countries should target. It also raises questions about the fiscal frameworks needed to reach the prudent debt...
Finance and Inclusive Growth
Boris Cournède, Oliver Denk and Peter Hoeller
11 Jun 2015
Finance is a vital ingredient for economic growth, but there can also be too much of it. This study investigates what fifty years of data for OECD countries have to say about the role of the financial sector for economic growth and income inequality...
Structural reforms and income distribution
Orsetta Causa, Alain de Serres and Nicolas Ruiz
01 Apr 2015
This paper provides new empirical evidence on the effects of structural policies on household disposable incomes at different income levels. More specifically, it investigates the extent to which structural policies have differential long-run impacts...