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No. 1768 | 17 Jul 2023 |
Reaching net zero while safeguarding competitiveness and social cohesion in Germany
Germany intends to reach climate neutrality in 2045, tripling the speed of emission reductions that was achieved between 1990 and 2019. Soaring energy prices and the need to replace Russian energy imports have amplified the urgency to act. Various... |
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No. 1767 | 10 Jul 2023 |
Digitalisation and the labour market: Worker-level evidence from Slovenia
This paper provides evidence on the effects of digitalisation on the labour market in Slovenia using a unique dataset of Slovenian workers and firms for the years 2016 to 2020. Results show that at the firm level, digitalisation – measured in terms... |
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No. 1766 | 10 Jul 2023 |
COVID-19 and productivity-enhancing digitalisation: Firm-level evidence from Slovenia
This paper provides evidence on the impact of digitalisation on productivity in Slovenia during the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic affected overall labour productivity negatively. Nonetheless, results show that firms that were more ICT-intensive... |
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No. 1765 | 19 Jul 2023 |
How does corporate taxation affect business investment?
Business investment in OECD countries has remained weak, in particular since the 2008 global financial crisis. At the same time, the cost of capital has significantly and steadily decreased over the last thirty years, reflecting a fall in both... |
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No. 1764 | 10 Jul 2023 |
Improving the business regulatory environment in Poland
A competition-friendly business regulatory environment is essential for the well-functioning of markets. It ensures that important policy goals are addressed, and market failures tackled. However, regulation can also create barriers to the entry and... |
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No. 1763 | 04 Jul 2023 |
Doing green things: skills, reallocation, and the green transition
The need to rapidly decarbonise economies raises questions about whether countries’ workforces possess the requisite skills to achieve the net zero transition as well as the capacity to redeploy workers from “brown” to “green” jobs. This paper... |
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No. 1762 | 23 Jun 2023 |
Risks and opportunities of reshaping global value chains
The paper reviews selected implications of trade integration via global value chains (GVC) and identifies gaps in understanding of GVC risks. Despite recent significant progress, many GVC risks remain unknown. The paper also discusses pros and cons... |
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No. 1761 | 15 Jun 2023 |
Corporate cost of debt in the low-carbon transition
This paper assesses to what extent markets with sophisticated investors and large firms price transition risks due to climate policies. The analysis exploits longitudinal data on firms’ economic and environmental performances - as measured by... |
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No. 1760 | 26 May 2023 |
Canada’s transition to net zero emissions
Canada has an ambitious plan to reduce the economy’s net emissions to zero by 2050. This will require a step change in mitigation action, with deep energy savings and near economy-wide replacement of fossil fuels with clean energy. Achieving this... |
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No. 1759 | 26 May 2023 |
Better jobs and incomes in Bulgaria
The shrinking number of workers due to smaller young cohorts entering the labour market and large-scale outward migration are undermining Bulgaria’s growth prospects, the sustainability of its social institutions and society more widely. Bulgaria... |
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No. 1758 | 24 May 2023 |
Improving the quality and efficiency of education and training in Costa Rica to better support growth and equity
Education and training are a high priority for Costa Rica that devotes to them more than 6.5% of GDP, one of the highest spending shares among OECD countries. However, educational outcomes remain poor and firms struggle to fill their vacancies,... |
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No. 1757 | 12 May 2023 |
Transitioning to a green economy in Greece
A changing climate is threatening livelihoods and economic activity in Greece and the world. Transitioning to a green economy – mitigating the causes of climate change and adapting to its effects, while sustaining activity and improving well-being –... |
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No. 1756 | 12 May 2023 |
Urban house price gradients in the post-COVID-19 era
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant shift in the way people work, with an increasing number of individuals opting to work from home. Fewer commutes allow people to live further away from the city centre, where jobs typically concentrate.... |
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No. 1755 | 11 May 2023 |
Rising energy prices and productivity: short-run pain, long-term gain?
Soaring energy prices have raised concerns about the risks energy price shocks pose for firms’ performance and the green transition. This paper estimates the impacts of energy price changes on firms’ productivity as well as their dynamics,... |
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No. 1754 | 11 May 2023 |
Towards net zero in the Czech Republic
The Czech economy is very carbon-intensive and has among the highest greenhouse gas emissions per unit of GDP in the OECD. Getting on the path towards net zero will require rapid emission reductions over the coming decades. Coal still makes up close... |
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No. 1753 | 20 Apr 2023 |
Unleashing the productive potential of digitalisation in Lithuania
Lithuania is digitalising its economy with visible success, but much scope remains for the integration of advanced technologies. The COVID-19 crisis confirmed the importance of digitalisation to sustain activity. Increased private investment in... |
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No. 1752 | 20 Mar 2023 |
Competition, regulation and growth in a digitized world
Digital markets have raised a number of new competition challenges. Ex-post competition policy appears not to be able to address them in their entirety and with the necessary speed. There is considerable consensus, among academics and policy-makers,... |
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No. 1751 | 20 Mar 2023 |
Home, green home: Policies to decarbonise housing
The housing sector is one of the main sources of CO2 emissions in OECD countries, accounting for over a quarter of the total. Robust and rapid action is required to reach the net zero emission target by 2050. Decarbonising housing involves halting... |
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No. 1750 | 03 Mar 2023 |
Health sector performance and efficiency in Ireland
Overall, the health of the Irish population has improved substantially during recent decades and is quite good compared with other OECD countries. However, spending is elevated, partly reflecting a system that is strongly based on hospitals.... |
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No. 1749 | 28 Feb 2023 |
Options for assessing and comparing climate change mitigation policies across countries
This paper reviews different methods for assessing and comparing across countries the impact of climate change mitigation policies and policy packages on emissions. Broadening and deepening past and recent mitigation policies’ stocktaking efforts, as... |
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Reaching net zero while safeguarding competitiveness and social cohesion in Germany
Zeev Krill, Robert Grundke et Marius Bickmann
17 Jul 2023
Germany intends to reach climate neutrality in 2045, tripling the speed of emission reductions that was achieved between 1990 and 2019. Soaring energy prices and the need to replace Russian energy imports have amplified the urgency to act. Various...
Digitalisation and the labour market: Worker-level evidence from Slovenia
Antonela Miho, Martin Borowiecki et Jens Høj
10 Jul 2023
This paper provides evidence on the effects of digitalisation on the labour market in Slovenia using a unique dataset of Slovenian workers and firms for the years 2016 to 2020. Results show that at the firm level, digitalisation – measured in terms...
COVID-19 and productivity-enhancing digitalisation: Firm-level evidence from Slovenia
Martin Borowiecki, Federico Giovannelli et Jens Høj
10 Jul 2023
This paper provides evidence on the impact of digitalisation on productivity in Slovenia during the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic affected overall labour productivity negatively. Nonetheless, results show that firms that were more ICT-intensive...
How does corporate taxation affect business investment?
Tibor Hanappi, Valentine Millot et Sébastien Turban
19 Jul 2023
Business investment in OECD countries has remained weak, in particular since the 2008 global financial crisis. At the same time, the cost of capital has significantly and steadily decreased over the last thirty years, reflecting a fall in both...
Improving the business regulatory environment in Poland
Javier Terrero-Dávila, Cristiana Vitale et Eszter Danitz
10 Jul 2023
A competition-friendly business regulatory environment is essential for the well-functioning of markets. It ensures that important policy goals are addressed, and market failures tackled. However, regulation can also create barriers to the entry and...
Doing green things: skills, reallocation, and the green transition
Stefanos Tyros, Dan Andrews et Alain de Serres
04 Jul 2023
The need to rapidly decarbonise economies raises questions about whether countries’ workforces possess the requisite skills to achieve the net zero transition as well as the capacity to redeploy workers from “brown” to “green” jobs. This paper...
Risks and opportunities of reshaping global value chains
David Crowe et Łukasz Rawdanowicz
23 Jun 2023
The paper reviews selected implications of trade integration via global value chains (GVC) and identifies gaps in understanding of GVC risks. Despite recent significant progress, many GVC risks remain unknown. The paper also discusses pros and cons...
Corporate cost of debt in the low-carbon transition
Filippo Maria D’Arcangelo, Tobias Kruse, Mauro Pisu et Marco Tomasi
15 Jun 2023
This paper assesses to what extent markets with sophisticated investors and large firms price transition risks due to climate policies. The analysis exploits longitudinal data on firms’ economic and environmental performances - as measured by...
Canada’s transition to net zero emissions
Ben Conigrave
26 May 2023
Canada has an ambitious plan to reduce the economy’s net emissions to zero by 2050. This will require a step change in mitigation action, with deep energy savings and near economy-wide replacement of fossil fuels with clean energy. Achieving this...
Better jobs and incomes in Bulgaria
Margit Molnar, Michael Abendschein et Zvezdelina Zhelyazkova
26 May 2023
The shrinking number of workers due to smaller young cohorts entering the labour market and large-scale outward migration are undermining Bulgaria’s growth prospects, the sustainability of its social institutions and society more widely. Bulgaria...
Improving the quality and efficiency of education and training in Costa Rica to better support growth and equity
Alessandro Maravalle et Alberto González Pandiella
24 May 2023
Education and training are a high priority for Costa Rica that devotes to them more than 6.5% of GDP, one of the highest spending shares among OECD countries. However, educational outcomes remain poor and firms struggle to fill their vacancies,...
Transitioning to a green economy in Greece
Timo Leidecker, Tim Bulman, Ilai Levin et Hélène Blake
12 May 2023
A changing climate is threatening livelihoods and economic activity in Greece and the world. Transitioning to a green economy – mitigating the causes of climate change and adapting to its effects, while sustaining activity and improving well-being –...
Urban house price gradients in the post-COVID-19 era
Volker Ziemann, Manuel Bétin, Alexandre Banquet, Rudiger Ahrend, Boris Cournède, Maria Paula Caldas, Marcos Diaz Ramirez, Pierre-Alain Pionnier, Daniel Sanchez-Serra et Paolo Veneri
12 May 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant shift in the way people work, with an increasing number of individuals opting to work from home. Fewer commutes allow people to live further away from the city centre, where jobs typically concentrate....
Rising energy prices and productivity: short-run pain, long-term gain?
Christophe André, Hélia Costa, Lilas Demmou et Guido Franco
11 May 2023
Soaring energy prices have raised concerns about the risks energy price shocks pose for firms’ performance and the green transition. This paper estimates the impacts of energy price changes on firms’ productivity as well as their dynamics,...
Towards net zero in the Czech Republic
Urban Sila et Erik Frohm
11 May 2023
The Czech economy is very carbon-intensive and has among the highest greenhouse gas emissions per unit of GDP in the OECD. Getting on the path towards net zero will require rapid emission reductions over the coming decades. Coal still makes up close...
Unleashing the productive potential of digitalisation in Lithuania
Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou
20 Apr 2023
Lithuania is digitalising its economy with visible success, but much scope remains for the integration of advanced technologies. The COVID-19 crisis confirmed the importance of digitalisation to sustain activity. Increased private investment in...
Competition, regulation and growth in a digitized world
Giuseppe Nicoletti, Cristiana Vitale et Carolina Abate
20 Mar 2023
Digital markets have raised a number of new competition challenges. Ex-post competition policy appears not to be able to address them in their entirety and with the necessary speed. There is considerable consensus, among academics and policy-makers,...
Home, green home: Policies to decarbonise housing
Peter Hoeller, Volker Ziemann, Boris Cournède et Manuel Bétin
20 Mar 2023
The housing sector is one of the main sources of CO2 emissions in OECD countries, accounting for over a quarter of the total. Robust and rapid action is required to reach the net zero emission target by 2050. Decarbonising housing involves halting...
Health sector performance and efficiency in Ireland
Patrizio Sicari et Douglas Sutherland
03 Mar 2023
Overall, the health of the Irish population has improved substantially during recent decades and is quite good compared with other OECD countries. However, spending is elevated, partly reflecting a system that is strongly based on hospitals....
Options for assessing and comparing climate change mitigation policies across countries
Mauro Pisu, Filippo Maria D’Arcangelo, Assia Elgouacem, Tobias Kruse et Yannick Hemmerlé
28 Feb 2023
This paper reviews different methods for assessing and comparing across countries the impact of climate change mitigation policies and policy packages on emissions. Broadening and deepening past and recent mitigation policies’ stocktaking efforts, as...