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No. 237 | 12 Apr 2000 |
Regulation, Market Structure and Performance in Telecommunications
The paper uses an original international database on regulation, market structure and performance in the telecommunications industry to investigate the effects of entry liberalisation and privatisation on productivity, prices and quality of service... |
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No. 236 | 06 Apr 2000 |
Predicting The Evolution and Effects of The Asia Crisis from The OECD Perspective
Over the past two years, the key trading economies in SE Asia experienced major economic crises, involving financial turbulence, large capital outflows and currency depreciations. These, in turn, resulted in severe financial constraints and business... |
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No. 235 | 06 Apr 2000 |
Modelling Manufacturing Export Volumes Equations
International trade is a principle transmission mechanism by which developments in one country can have repercussions in others and how it is modelled is an important part of any multi-country model. This paper describes recent estimation work... |
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No. 234 | 17 Mar 2000 |
The Polish Tax Reform
The Polish tax system has commendable features, in particular a capacity to generate strong revenue on a continuous basis. But it also has a number of less desirable features, which could hamper growth in the future and come under increased criticism... |
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No. 233 | 02 Mar 2000 |
The Tax System in Mexico
The Mexican tax system encompasses a number of commendable features and disincentives to work, save and invest appear less severe than in most other OECD countries. However, the system also contains major deficiencies, which hampers the efficiency... |
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No. 232 | 09 Feb 2000 |
EMU, The Euro and The European Policy Mix
One year ago most economic observers predicted that "fundamentals" were such that the euro was set to appreciate. In the event, the opposite has occurred. This has rekindled a debate on how well foreign exchange markets reflect fundamental... |
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No. 231 | 04 Feb 2000 |
The Tax System in Japan
The Japanese tax system applies relatively low marginal tax rates on most economic activities which, in combination with moderate tax elasticities of the bases, indicate that the overall distortion from the tax system (the excess burden) is probably... |
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No. 230 | 19 Jan 2000 |
The Size and Role of Automatic Fiscal Stabilizers in the 1990s and Beyond
This paper assesses to what extent some components of government budgets affected by the macroeconomic situation operate to smooth the business cycle in individual OECD countries. It is shown that these automatic fiscal stabilisers have generally... |
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No. 229 | 19 Jan 2000 |
Enhancing Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Finland
This document examines Finland’s policy on natural and environmental resource management. In many fields, progress has been made and pollution curbed. However, there is still room for improvement with regard to cost-effectiveness. Economic evaluation... |
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No. 228 | 18 Jan 2000 |
Finance and Growth
This paper aims at providing an overview of the theoretical considerations and a review of the empirical literature on the relationship between finance and growth. Section I describes the role of financial development in economic growth at the macro... |
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No. 227 | 12 Jan 2000 |
What the Yield Curves say About Inflation
The paper investigates the information content of yield curves regarding future inflation, using the example of the G-7 countries. The empirical results show substantial variation of results across countries, and a significant information content is... |
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No. 226 | 13 Apr 2000 |
Summary Indicators of Product Market Regulation with an Extension to Employment Protection Legislation
This paper presents a database on indicators of product market regulations and employment protection legislation for most of the OECD countries and illustrates a methodology for aggregating these detailed indicators into summary indicators of the... |
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No. 225 | 22 Nov 1999 |
Some Issues Related to the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off in the Swedish Tax and Transfer System
The Swedish universal welfare model relies on a high tax level to finance a variety of transfers to the workingage population both in the form of income replacements and income supplements and as services for health-, child- and elderly care. The... |
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No. 224 | 07 Oct 1999 |
The Economic Effects of Employment-Conditional Income Support Schemes for the Low-Paid
Problems of unemployment and low pay amongst the low-skilled and those with little work experience are severe in many OECD countries. Employment-conditional schemes are policy instruments designed to increase the employment prospects of the... |
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No. 223 | 15 Sept 1999 |
The Use of Financial Market Indicators by Monetary Authorities
In a new and changing environment for monetary policy, an interesting issue to examine is the use of financial market indicators by monetary policy authorities. With this in mind, the OECD canvassed a number of major central banks to get their views.... |
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No. 222 | 13 Aug 1999 |
Tax Reform in Switzerland
There have been a number of tax reforms in Switzerland in recent years aimed at enhancing economic efficiency and equity. This paper sets these reforms in the context of the forces shaping tax policy in Switzerland and the main features of the Swiss... |
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No. 221 | 04 Aug 1999 |
Trends in Market Openness
Widening imbalances in current account positions across some of the major OECD economic areas have raised concerns about related increases in protectionist sentiments. This paper reviews recent trends in market openness indicators and assesses... |
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No. 220 | 30 Jul 1999 |
Technology Upgrading with Learning Cost
As it takes time and effort to learn how to fully utilise new technology and realise its maximum potential productivity gain, adoption of new technology tends to reduce productivity temporarily, even though the potential productivity gain in the long... |
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No. 219 | 27 Jul 1999 |
Testing for a Common OECD Phillips Curve
This paper reports estimates of a reduced form relationship explaining inflation in terms of the output gap and import price inflation for most OECD countries. Results are reported both for single equation estimation on a country-by-country basis and... |
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No. 218 | 28 Jul 1999 |
Sustainable Economic Growth
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... |
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Regulation, Market Structure and Performance in Telecommunications
Olivier Boylaud and Giuseppe Nicoletti
12 Apr 2000
The paper uses an original international database on regulation, market structure and performance in the telecommunications industry to investigate the effects of entry liberalisation and privatisation on productivity, prices and quality of service...
Predicting The Evolution and Effects of The Asia Crisis from The OECD Perspective
Pete Richardson, Ignazio Visco and Claude Giorno
06 Apr 2000
Over the past two years, the key trading economies in SE Asia experienced major economic crises, involving financial turbulence, large capital outflows and currency depreciations. These, in turn, resulted in severe financial constraints and business...
Modelling Manufacturing Export Volumes Equations
Keiko Murata, Dave Turner, David Rae and Laurence Le Fouler
06 Apr 2000
International trade is a principle transmission mechanism by which developments in one country can have repercussions in others and how it is modelled is an important part of any multi-country model. This paper describes recent estimation work...
The Polish Tax Reform
Patrick Lenain and Leszek Bartoszuk
17 Mar 2000
The Polish tax system has commendable features, in particular a capacity to generate strong revenue on a continuous basis. But it also has a number of less desirable features, which could hamper growth in the future and come under increased criticism...
The Tax System in Mexico
Thomas Dalsgaard
02 Mar 2000
The Mexican tax system encompasses a number of commendable features and disincentives to work, save and invest appear less severe than in most other OECD countries. However, the system also contains major deficiencies, which hampers the efficiency...
EMU, The Euro and The European Policy Mix
Jonathan Coppel, Martine Durand and Ignazio Visco
09 Feb 2000
One year ago most economic observers predicted that "fundamentals" were such that the euro was set to appreciate. In the event, the opposite has occurred. This has rekindled a debate on how well foreign exchange markets reflect fundamental...
The Tax System in Japan
Thomas Dalsgaard and Masaaki Kawagoe
04 Feb 2000
The Japanese tax system applies relatively low marginal tax rates on most economic activities which, in combination with moderate tax elasticities of the bases, indicate that the overall distortion from the tax system (the excess burden) is probably...
The Size and Role of Automatic Fiscal Stabilizers in the 1990s and Beyond
Paul van den Noord
19 Jan 2000
This paper assesses to what extent some components of government budgets affected by the macroeconomic situation operate to smooth the business cycle in individual OECD countries. It is shown that these automatic fiscal stabilisers have generally...
Enhancing Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Finland
Ann Vourc'h and Miguel Jimenez
19 Jan 2000
This document examines Finland’s policy on natural and environmental resource management. In many fields, progress has been made and pollution curbed. However, there is still room for improvement with regard to cost-effectiveness. Economic evaluation...
Finance and Growth
Kotaro Tsuru
18 Jan 2000
This paper aims at providing an overview of the theoretical considerations and a review of the empirical literature on the relationship between finance and growth. Section I describes the role of financial development in economic growth at the macro...
What the Yield Curves say About Inflation
Sebastian Schich
12 Jan 2000
The paper investigates the information content of yield curves regarding future inflation, using the example of the G-7 countries. The empirical results show substantial variation of results across countries, and a significant information content is...
Summary Indicators of Product Market Regulation with an Extension to Employment Protection Legislation
Giuseppe Nicoletti, Stefano Scarpetta and Olivier Boylaud
13 Apr 2000
This paper presents a database on indicators of product market regulations and employment protection legislation for most of the OECD countries and illustrates a methodology for aggregating these detailed indicators into summary indicators of the...
Some Issues Related to the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off in the Swedish Tax and Transfer System
Henning Strand
22 Nov 1999
The Swedish universal welfare model relies on a high tax level to finance a variety of transfers to the workingage population both in the form of income replacements and income supplements and as services for health-, child- and elderly care. The...
The Economic Effects of Employment-Conditional Income Support Schemes for the Low-Paid
Andrea Bassanini, Jørn Henrik Rasmussen and Stefano Scarpetta
07 Oct 1999
Problems of unemployment and low pay amongst the low-skilled and those with little work experience are severe in many OECD countries. Employment-conditional schemes are policy instruments designed to increase the employment prospects of the...
The Use of Financial Market Indicators by Monetary Authorities
Paul Mylonas and Sebastian Schich
15 Sept 1999
In a new and changing environment for monetary policy, an interesting issue to examine is the use of financial market indicators by monetary policy authorities. With this in mind, the OECD canvassed a number of major central banks to get their views....
Tax Reform in Switzerland
David Carey, Kathryn Gordon and Philippe Thalmann
13 Aug 1999
There have been a number of tax reforms in Switzerland in recent years aimed at enhancing economic efficiency and equity. This paper sets these reforms in the context of the forces shaping tax policy in Switzerland and the main features of the Swiss...
Trends in Market Openness
Jonathan Coppel and Martine Durand
04 Aug 1999
Widening imbalances in current account positions across some of the major OECD economic areas have raised concerns about related increases in protectionist sentiments. This paper reviews recent trends in market openness indicators and assesses...
Technology Upgrading with Learning Cost
Sanghoon Ahn
30 Jul 1999
As it takes time and effort to learn how to fully utilise new technology and realise its maximum potential productivity gain, adoption of new technology tends to reduce productivity temporarily, even though the potential productivity gain in the long...
Testing for a Common OECD Phillips Curve
Dave Turner and Elena Seghezza
27 Jul 1999
This paper reports estimates of a reduced form relationship explaining inflation in terms of the output gap and import price inflation for most OECD countries. Results are reported both for single equation estimation on a country-by-country basis and...
Sustainable Economic Growth
Paul van den Noord and Ann Vourc'h
28 Jul 1999
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...