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2018

1457. Improving and job quality of low-skilled workers in the Mark Baker and Sanne Zwart

1456. United Kingdom: reducing regional disparities in productivity Peter Gal and Jagoda Egeland

1455. : improving the efficiency of the health-care system Antoine Goujard France : améliorer l’efficience du système de santé Antoine Goujard

1454. France: promoting economic opportunities and well-being in poor neighbourhoods Nicola Brandt France : améliorer les perspectives économiques et le bien-être des habitants des quartiers défavorisés Nicola Brandt

2017

1453. Income redistribution through and transfers across OECD countries Orsetta Causa and Mikkel Hermansen

1452. Raising and mobilising skills to boost productivity and inclusiveness in Vincent Vandenberghe, Lilas Demmou and Manav Frohde

1451. Making the business environment more supportive of productivity in Belgium Peter Walkenhorst, Lilas Demmou and Manav Frohde

1450. Deepening regional integration within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Falilou Fall and Boingotlo Gasealahwe

1449. Lowering barriers to entrepreneurship and promoting small business growth in Christine Lewis and Boingotlo Gasealahwe

1448. Export and productivity in global chains – Comparative Evidence from and Konstantins Benkovskis, Jaan Masso, Olegs Tkacevs, Priit Vahter and Naomitsu Yashiro

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1447. The effects of the mix on inequality and growth Oguzhan Akgun, Boris Cournède and Jean-Marc Fournier

1446. The middle income plateau: trap or springboard? Rauf Gönenç

1445. Capital-embodied technological progress and obsolescence: how do they affect behaviour? Yosuke Jin

1444. Ensuring a dynamic skills-training and life-long learning system in Petar Vujanovic, Christine Lewis

1443. Boosting productivity in Switzerland Patrice Ollivaud

1442. The quantification of structural reforms: extending the framework to emerging economies Bálazs Égert

1441. Aggregate multi-factor productivity: measurement issues in OECD countries Balázs Égert

1440. The fiscal projection framework in long-term scenarios Yvan Guillemette and David Turner

1439. Labour market and collective bargaining in : sharing the spoils without spoiling the shares Urban Sila

1438. Moving up the global in Latvia Naomitsu Yashiro, Koen De Backer, Andrés Fuentes Hutfilter, Marco Kools and Zuzana Smidova

1437. Reviving productive investment in Estonia Caroline Klein, Olena Havrylchyk and Lorenzo Casullo

1436. Getting the most out of in Estonia Zuzana Smidova and Naomitsu Yashiro

1435. How self-sorting affects migrants’ labour market outcomes Jon Kristian Pareliussen

1434. Urbanisation and consumption in Margit Molnar, Thomas Chalaux and Qiang Ren

1433. Breaking the shackles: zombie firms, weak banks and depressed restructuring in Europe Dan Andrews and Filippos Petroulakis

1432. Raising living standards and supporting investment by boosting skills in Rory O’Farrell

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1431. Inclusive labour markets in the digital era: the case of Volker Ziemann

1430. Austria’s digital transition: the diffusion challenge Rauf Gönenç, Béatrice Guérard

1429. Structural policy indicators database for economic research (SPIDER) Balázs Égert, Peter Gal and Isabelle Wanner

1428. Designing fan charts for GDP growth forecasts to better reflect downturn risks David Turner

1427. The of the Taxable Income and Fiscal Benefits in : New Evidence from Personal Returns (2002-2011) David Haugh and Clara Martinez-Toledano

1426. Where to get the best bang for the buck in the United Kingdom? Industrial strategy, investment and lagging regions Rafal Kierzenkowski, Peter Gal and Gabor Fulop

1425. Insolvency regimes, technology diffusion and productivity growth: Evidence from firms in OECD countries Müge Adalet McGowan, Dan Andrews and Valentine Millot

1424. Reigniting growth through productivity-enhancing reforms in Eduardo Olaberría

1423. Towards more inclusive growth in Colombia Christine de la Maisonneuve

1422. Sustaining nature-based tourism in Iceland Douglas Sutherland and Jane Stacey

1421. Corporate and firm performance in China Margit Molnar, Wenhao Chen and Baolin Wang

1420. Adapting to the changing labour market in David Carey

1419. Improving productivity in New Zealand's economy Andrew Barker

1418. : reaping the benefits of a diverse society through better integration of immigrants Álvaro Pina

1417. Luxembourg: harnessing skills for more inclusive growth Jan Stráský

1416. Enhancing advanced skills to better meet labour market demand in the Slovak Republic Gabriel Machlica, Ján Toman, Martin Haluš and Dávid Martinák

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1415. Do government transfers reduce in China? Micro evidence from five regions Ben Westmore

1414. Boosting productivity for inclusive growth in Randall S. Jones and Yosuke Jin

1413. Ensuring fiscal sustainability in Japan in the context of a shrinking and ageing Population Randall S. Jones and Kohei Fukawa

1412. Achieving strong and balanced regional development in Isabelle Joumard, Hermes Morgavi and Hugo Bourrousse

1411. Financial inclusion and women entrepreneurship: evidence from Fozan Fareed, Mabel Gabriel, Patrick Lenain and Julien Reynaud

1410. Findings of the recent literature on international capital flows: implications and suggestions for further research Stéphanie Guichard

1409. Sharing the benefits of China’s growth by providing opportunities to all Ben Westmore

1408. Boosting firm dynamism and performance in China Margit Molnar

1407. The capacity of governments to raise taxes Oguzhan Akgun, David Bartolini and Boris Cournède

1406. Labour market resilience: the role of structural and macroeconomic policies Alexander Hijzen, Andreas Kappeler, Mathilde Pak and Cyrille Schwellnus

1405. Raising skills in 1405. Aumentar as qualificaçŏes em Portugal Sónia Araújo

1404. Improving the efficiency and outcomes of the Slovak health-care system Claude Giorno and Kristina Londáková

1403. Skills Mismatch, Productivity and Policies: Evidence from the Second Wave of PIAAC Müge Adalet McGowan and Dan Andrews

1402. The Global for High-Income Countries Mikkel Hermansen

1401. Enhancing employability and skills to meet labour market needs in Paula Garda

1400. Public debt in India: Moving towards a prudent level? Isabelle Joumard, Peter Hoeller, Jean-Marc Fournier and Hermes Morgavi

1399. Insolvency Regimes, Zombie Firms and Capital Reallocation Müge Adalet McGowan, Dan Andrews and Valentine Millot

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1398. The fall in real long-term government bond yields: Disentangling different drivers Łukasz Rawdanowicz, Mohamed Hammouch and Makoto Kasai

1397. Taxation and Investment in India Alastair Thomas, Isabelle Joumard, Tibor Hanappi and Michelle Harding

1396. Financial re-regulation since the global crisis? An -based assessment Oliver Denk and Gabriel Gomes

1395. Fighting in Christophe André and Hugo Bourrousse

1394. Income, wealth and equal opportunities in Sweden Jon Pareliussen, Christophe André, Hugo Bourrousse and Vincent Koen

1393. Regulation, institutions and productivity: new macroeconomic evidence from OECD countries Balázs Égert

1392. Regulation, institutions and aggregate investment: new evidence from OECD countries Balázs Égert

1391. Boosting R&D outcomes in Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou and Taejin Park

1390. Creating good conditions for -driven productivity gains in Australia Philip Hemmings and Taejin Park

1389. Making income and property taxes more growth-friendly and redistributive in India Isabelle Joumard, Alastair Thomas and Hermes Morgavi

1388. Promoting a private investment renaissance in Italy Mauro Pisu

1387. Fostering innovative business investment in Spain David Haugh, Muge Adalet McGowan, Dan Andrews, Aida Caldera Sanchez, Gabor Fulop and Pilar Garcia Perea

1386. Reforms for more and better quality jobs in Spain Yosuke Jin, Aida Caldera Sanchez and Pilar García Perea

1385. A revised approach to productivity convergence in long-term scenarios Yvan Guillemette, Alexandre Kopoin, David Turner and Andrea De Mauro

1384. A revised approach to trend projections in long-term scenarios Maria Chiara Cavalleri and Yvan Guillemette

1383. Doing well by doing good: the role of Mexico's firms in achieving sustainable and inclusive growth Mabel Gabriel, Patrick Lenain, Mirna Mehrez, Julien Reynaud and Payal Soneja

1382. Structural inequality – the case of Sweden

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Per Olof Robling and Jon Kristian Pareliussen

1381. Improving the allocation and efficiency of public spending in Patrice Ollivaud

1380. Decentralisation to promote regional development in Indonesia Petar Vujanovic

1379. Foreign Direct Investment and The Haven Hypothesis Grégoire Garsous, Tomasz Kozluk

1378. Energy , environmental policies and investment Dennis Dlugosch, Tomasz Kozluk

1377. Deconstructing income inequality in : an income source decomposition approach Alberto González Pandiella and Mabel Gabriel

1376. Boosting productivity in Mexico through integration into Global Value Chains Sean Dougherty and Julien Reynaud

1375. Local taxation, land use regulation, and land use: A survey of the evidence Hansjörg Blöchliger, Christian Hilber, Olivier Schöni and Maximilian von Ehrlich

1374. Finance and productivity: A literature review Mark Heil

1373. Decoupling of from productivity: Macro-level facts Cyrille Schwellnus, Andreas Kappeler and Pierre-Alain Pionnier

1372. The Walking Dead? Zombie Firms and Productivity Performance in OECD Countries Müge Adalet McGowan, Dan Andrews and Valentine Millot

1371. Fostering inclusive growth in Stewart Nixon, Hidekatsu Asada and Vincent Koen

1370. Boosting productivity in Malaysia Hidekatsu Asada, Stewart Nixon and Vincent Koen

1369. Malaysia’s economic success story and challenges Vincent Koen, Hidekatsu Asada, Stewart Nixon, Mohamed Rizwan Habeeb Rahuman and Abu Zeid Mohd Arif

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2016

1368. Trends in productivity and sources of productivity growth in Slovenia Urban Sila, Hermes Morgavi and Jeanne Dall'Orso

1367. Rebalancing ’s growth by improving resource allocation and productivity in manufacturing Aslihan Atabek, Dan Andrews and Rauf Gönenç

1366. Reaping the benefits of global value chains in Turkey Volker Ziemann and Béatrice Guérard

1365. Incentivising lending to SMEs with the Funding for Lending Scheme: some evidence from bank-level data in the United Kingdom Olena Havrylchyk

1364. Enhancing skills to boost growth in Gabriel Machlica

1363. Enhancing public sector efficiency and effectiveness in the Christine Lewis and Falilou Fall

1362. Fostering productivity for income convergence in the Czech Republic Falilou Fall and Christine Lewis

1361. International tax planning and fixed investment Stéphane Sorbe and Åsa Johansson

1360. Innovation, patent location and tax planning by multinationals Øystein Bieltvedt Skeie, Åsa Johansson, Carlo Menon and Stéphane Sorbe

1359. International differences in corporate taxation, foreign direct investment and tax revenue Øystein Bieltvedt Skeie

1358. International tax planning, and Stéphane Sorbe and Åsa Johansson

1357. Debt and tax planning by multinationals Stéphane Sorbe, Åsa Johansson and Øystein Bieltvedt Skeie

1356. Anti-avoidance rules against international tax planning: A classification Åsa Johansson, Øystein Bieltvedt Skeie and Stéphane Sorbe

1355. Tax planning by multinational firms: Firm-level evidence from a cross-country database Åsa Johansson, Øystein Bieltvedt Skeie, Stéphane Sorbe and Carlo Menon

1354. The quantification of structural reforms in OECD countries: a new framework Balázs Égert and Peter Gal

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1353. Coping with creative destruction: reducing the costs of firm exit Dan Andrews and Alessandro Saia

1352. A re-assessment of fiscal space in OECD countries Jarmila Botev, Jean-Marc Fournier and Annabelle Mourougane

1351. Can an increase in public investment sustainably lift ? Annabelle Mourougane, Jarmila Botev, Jean-Marc Fournier, Nigel Pain and Elena Rusticelli

1350. The ins and outs of employment in 25 OECD countries Paula Garda

1349. How do product market regulations affect workers? Evidence from the network industries By Oliver Denk

1348. Effects of Flexibility-Enhancing Reforms on Employment Transitions By Boris Cournède, Oliver Denk and Paula Garda

1347. The positive effect of public investment on potential growth By Jean-Marc Fournier

1346. Public finance, economic growth and inequality: A survey of the evidence By Åsa Johansson

1345. Trends in public finance: Insights from a new detailed dataset Debbie Bloch, Jean Marc Fournier, Duarte Gonçalves and Álvaro Pina

1344. The effect of the size and the mix of public spending on growth and inequality Jean-Marc Fournier and Åsa Johansson

1343. The distribution of the growth dividends Mikkel Hermansen, Nicolas Ruiz and Orsetta Causa

1342. The distributional impact of structural reforms Orsetta Causa, Mikkel Hermansen and Nicolas Ruiz

1341. Inequality in through the looking glass Orsetta Causa, Mikkel Hermansen, Nicolas Ruiz, Caroline Klein and Zuzana Smidova

1340. Can reforms promoting growth increase financial fragility? An empirical assessment Aida Caldera Sánchez and Filippo Gori

1339. How do policies influence GDP tail risks? Aida Caldera Sánchez and Oliver Röhn

1338. Balancing inclusiveness, work incentives and sustainability in Denmark Caroline Klein and Louise Aggerstrøm Hansen

1337. Betting the house in Denmark Zuzana Smidova

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1336. The use of models in producing OECD macroeconomic forecasts David Turner

1335. The estimation of financial conditions indices for the major OECD countries E. Philip Davis, Simon Kirby and James Warren

1334. Advance warning indicators of past severe GDP per capita in Turkey Oliver Röhn

1333. Realising and expanding opportunities in the Damien Azzopardi, Jonathan Millar and Douglas Sutherland

1332. The skills of Polish emigrants – evidence from PIAAC Nicola Brandt and Patrizio Sicari

1331. Fiscal decentralisation and income inequality: empirical evidence from OECD countries Sibylle Stossberg, David Bartolini and Hansjörg Blöchliger

1330. Fiscal decentralisation and regional disparities David Bartolini, Sibylle Stossberg and Hansjörg Blöchliger

1329. Regional GDP in OECD countries: how has inequality developed over time? Felix Arnold and Hansjörg Blöchliger

1328. Unleashing private sector productivity in the United States Jonathan Millar and Douglas Sutherland

1327. Raising well-being in ’s ageing society Andreas Kappeler, Andrés Fuentes Hutfilter, Dorothee Schneider, Naomitsu Yashiro, Eun Jung Kim and Giovanni Maria Semeraro

1326. Boosting investment performance in Germany Andrés Fuentes Hutfilter, Andreas Kappeler, Dorothee Schneider and Giovanni Maria Semeraro

1325. Labour market reforms in to promote inclusive growth Randall S. Jones and Kohei Fukawa

1324. Raising Korea’s productivity through innovation and structural reform Randall S. Jones and Jae Wan Lee

1323. A bird-eye view of Costa Rica's transport Mauro Pisu and Federico Villalobos

1322. Strengthening competition in network sectors and the internal market in Concurrence dans les industries de réseau et renforcement du marché intérieur au Canada Corinne Luu

1321. Age, skills and labour market outcomes in Jon Kristian Pareliussen

1320. Employment and skills in Finland Jon Kristian Pareliussen, Christophe André, Thomas Chalaux and Vincent Koen

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1319. Boosting productivity in Finland Christophe André and Thomas Chalaux

1318. Costa Rica: boosting productivity to sustain income convergence Mauro Pisu

1317. Five years in a balloon: Estimating the effects of euro adoption in using the synthetic control method Branislav Žúdel and Libor Melioris

1316. Making public finances more growth and equity-friendly in the euro area Álvaro Pina

1315. Priorities for completing the 's Single Market Jan Stráský

1314. Boosting productivity through greater small business dynamism in Canada David Carey, John Lester and Isabelle Luong Augmenter la productivité en favorisant le dynamisme des petites entreprises au Canada David Carey, John Lester et Isabelle Luong

1313. Forecasting GDP during and after the Great : a contest between small-scale bridge and large-scale dynamic factor models Patrice Ollivaud, Pierre-Alain Pionnier, Elena Rusticelli, Cyrille Schwellnus and Seung-Hee Koh

1312. Estimating the distributional impact of the Greek crisis (2009-2014) Chrysa Leventi and Manos Matsaganis

1311. The short-term impact of product market reforms: a cross-country firm-level analysis Peter Gal and Alexander Hijzen

1310. The effects of reform scenarios for benefits and social assistance on financial incentives to work and poverty in Jekaterina Navickė, Silvia Avram and Lilas Demmou

1309. Insolvency regimes and productivity growth: a framework for analysis Müge Adalet McGowan and Dan Andrews

1308. Growing together: making Lithuania’s convergence process more inclusive Lilas Demmou

1307. Scaling new heights: achievements and future challenges for productivity convergence in Lithuania Ben Westmore

1306. Boosting skills for all in the Rafal Kierzenkowski, Aleksandra Paciorek and Gabor Fulop

1305. Enhancing private investment in the Netherlands Sanne Zwart

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1304. Links between weak investment and the slowdown in productivity and potential output growth across the OECD Patrice Ollivaud, Yvan Guillemette and David Turner

1303. Regulations in services sectors and their impact on downstream industries: the OECD 2013 REGIMPACT indicator Balázs Égert and Isabelle Wanner

1302. Improving transport and energy infrastructure investment in Antoine Goujard

1301. Making better use of skills and migration in Poland Nicola Brandt

1300. Making growth more inclusive in Costa Rica Alberto González Pandiella

1299. How to boost export performance in Christine de la Maisonneuve

1298. Structural reforms to boost inclusive growth in Greece Christian Daude

1297. Reforming in a difficult macroeconomic context: a review of the issues and recent literature Aida Caldera Sánchez, Alain de Serres and Naomitsu Yashiro

1296. Regulatory management practices in OECD countries Isabell Koske, Faisal Naru, Philipp Beiter and Isabelle Wanner

1295. Quantifying the effects of trade liberalisation in : a CGE model simulation Sónia Araújo and Dorothee Flaig

1294. An investigation into improving real-time reliability of OECD Output Gap estimates David Turner, Maria Chiara Cavalleri, Yvan Guillemette, Alexandre Kopoin, Patrice Ollivaud and Elena Rusticelli

1293. Growing together: towards a more inclusive David Haugh, Yosuke Jin and Alberto Gonzalez Pandiella

1292. Migration in Ireland: challenges, opportunities and policies Alberto Gonzalez Pandiella

1291. Labour market transitions in Italy: job separation, re-employment and policy implications Yosuke Jin, Ryotaro Fukahori and Hermes Morgavi

1290. : better skills for inclusive growth Eduardo Olaberria

1289. Bringing all Chileans on board Eduardo Olaberria

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1288. Improving the system and the of retirees in Jacques Adda and Claude Giorno

1287. Boosting competition on Israeli markets Claude Giorno

1286. Policy challenges for and rural areas in Philip Hemmings

1285. Addressing the challenges in higher in Norway Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou

1284. How did immigrants fare in the Irish labour market over the ? Elish Kelly, Seamus McGuinness, Philip J. O’Connell, Alberto González Pandiella, David Haugh

1283. The drivers of spending: integrating policies and institutions Christine de la Maisonneuve, Rodrigo Moreno-Serra, Fabrice Murtin, Joaquim Oliveira Martins

1282. Do environmental policies affect global value chains? A new perspective on the pollution haven hypothesis Tomasz Koźluk and Christina Timiliotis

1281. and inequality Rory O’Farrell, Łukasz Rawdanowicz, Kei-Ichiro Inaba

1280. Raising public spending efficiency in Switzerland Richard Dutu

1279. Policies to tame the housing cycle in Switzerland Petar Vujanovic

1278. Public spending efficiency in the OECD: benchmarking , education and general administration Richard Dutu and Patrizio Sicari

1277. in OECD countries: stylised facts and policy issues Christophe André

2015

1276. How can South Africa’s tax system meet revenue raising challenges? Christine Lewis and Theresa Alton

1275. Adjusting fiscal balances for the : new tax and expenditure estimates for OECD countries Robert W.R. , Thai-Thanh Dang and Jarmila Botev

1274. Who are the top 1% earners in Europe? Oliver Denk

1273. Towards more in Austria

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Volker Ziemann

1272. Austria's separate gender roles model was popular in the past, but is becoming a constraint for comprehensive wellbeing Rauf Gonenc, Beatrice Guerard, Isabelle Hassler and Andreas Wörgötter

1271. The macroeconomic impact of structural policies on labour market outcomes in OECD countries: a reassessment Peter Gal and Adam Theising

1270. Searching for the inclusive growth tax grail: the distributional impact of growth enhancing tax reform in Ireland Brendan O’Connor, Terence Hynes, David Haugh and Patrick Lenain

1269. Taxes, income and economic mobility in Ireland: new evidence from tax records data Seán Kennedy, Yosuke Jin, David Haugh and Patrick Lenain

1268. The negative effect of regulatory divergence on foreign direct investment Jean-Marc Fournier

1267. Enhancing competitiveness, purchasing power and employment by increasing competition in France Améliorer la compétitivité, le pouvoir d’achat et l’emploi en renforçant la concurrence en France Antoine Goujard

1266. Labour market reform for more and better quality jobs in Italy Yosuke Jin and Patrick Lenain

1265. What do household surveys suggest about the top 1% incomes and inequality in OECD countries? Nicolas Ruiz and Nicolas Woloszko

1264. The costs of flexibility-enhancing structural reforms: a literature review , Pierre Cahuc and André Zylberberg

1263. Gender equality and economic growth in India: a quantitative framework Pierre-Richard Agénor, Jan Mares and Piritta Sorsa

1262. Achieving fiscal consolidation while promoting social cohesion in Japan Randall S. Jones and Kohei Fukawa

1261. Enhancing dynamism and innovation in Japan's Randall S. Jones and Myungkyoo Kim

1260. Vocational training and adult learning for better skills in France La formation professionnelle au de l’amélioration des compétences en France Nicola Brandt

1259. Structural policies and productivity: evidence from Portuguese firms By Jens Arnold and Natália Barbosa

1258. Reducing inequality and poverty in Portugal

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Jens Arnold and Carlos Farinha Rodrigues

1257. Boosting export performance in Portugal Jens Arnold

1256. Making New Zealand’s economic growth more inclusive David Carey

1255. Policy areas for increasing productivity in Latvia Zuzana Smidova

1254. Improving public sector efficiency for more inclusive growth in Latvia Caroline Klein and Robert Price

1253. Non-standard contracts, flexibility and employment adjustment: empirical evidence from Russian establishment data Larisa Smirnykh and Andreas Wörgötter

1252. Russia: progress in structural reform and framework conditions 2011-13 Yana Vaziakova

1251. Economic resilience: what role for policies? Aida Caldera Sánchez, Morten Rasmussen and Oliver Röhn

1250. Economic resilience: the usefulness of early warning indicators in OECD countries Mikkel Hermansen and Oliver Röhn

1249. Economic resilience: a new set of vulnerability indicators for OECD countries Oliver Röhn, Aida Caldera Sánchez, Mikkel Hermansen and Morten Rasmussen

1248. Fiscal : an empirical assessment Hansjörg Blöchliger and Jaroslaw Kantorowicz

1247. Sustaining the economic expansion in New Zealand Corinne Luu

1246. Policies for inclusive and sustainable growth in Indonesia Petar Vujanovic

1245. Enhancing the financing of the and financial stability in the United Kingdom Olena Havrylchyk and Rafał Kierzenkowski

1244. Improving infrastructure in the United Kingdom Mauro Pisu, Barbara Pels and Novella Bottini

1243. Restoring the financial sector and corporate deleveraging in Slovenia Urban Sila

1242. The economic consequences of an ageing population in Slovenia Peter Walkenhorst and Urban Sila

1241. Raising competitiveness and long-term growth of the Slovenian economy

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Urban Sila, Nataša Jemec and Hermes Morgavi

1240. Luxembourg - diversifying a small open economy Jan Stráský and Eckhard Wurzel

1239. Luxembourg - addressing new challenges in a major financial sector Eckhard Wurzel and Damien Azzopardi

1238. Productivity spillovers from the global frontier and public policy: industry level evidence Alessandro Saia, Dan Andrews and Silvia Albrizio

1237. The stabilisation properties of immovable property taxation: evidence from OECD countries Hansjörg Blöchliger, Balász Égert, Bastien Alvarez and Aleksandra Paciorek

1236. Making the most of natural resources in Indonesia Richard Dutu

1235. Reforming the pension system to increase coverage and equity in Colombia Christine de la Maisonneuve

1234. Making Colombia’s more efficient, fair and green Christian Daude, Sarah Perret and Bert Brys

1233. Skills and labour market performance in Sweden Margherita Bussi and Jon Kristian Pareliussen

1232. Skills and inclusive growth in Sweden Jon Kristian Pareliussen, Margherita Bussi, Christophe André and Vincent Koen

1231. Incorporating anchored expectations in the and in the derivation of OECD measures of equilibrium unemployment Elena Rusticelli, David Turner and Maria Chiara Cavalleri

1230. Macroeconomic uncertainties, prudent debt targets and fiscal rules Falilou Fall and Jean-Marc Fournier

1229. Limits to government debt sustainability Jean-Marc Fournier and Falilou Fall

1228. Government debt indicators: understanding the data Debbie Bloch and Falilou Fall

1226. Household finance and income inequality in the euro area Oliver Denk and Alexandre Cazenave-Lacroutz

1225. Financial sector pay and labour income inequality: evidence from Europe Oliver Denk

1224. Finance and income inequality in OECD countries Oliver Denk and Boris Cournède

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1223. Finance and economic growth in OECD and countries Boris Cournède and Oliver Denk

1222. What impedes household investment in energy efficiency and ? Nadia Ameli and Nicola Brandt

1221. Recent trends in productivity in China – shift-share analysis of labour productivity growth and the evolution of the productivity gap Margit Molnar and Thomas Chalaux

1220. Assessing China's skills gap and inequalities in education Margit Molnar, Boqing Wang and Ruidong Gao

1219. Providing the right skills to all in China – from "made in China" to "created in China" Margit Molnar and Vincent Koen

1218. Agricultural reforms and bridging the gap for rural China Ben Westmore

1217. A snapshot of China’s service sector Margit Molnar and Wei Wang

1216. Does the post-crisis weakness of global trade solely reflect weak demand? By Patrice Ollivaud and Cyrille Schwellnus

1215. Estonia: raising productivity and benefitting more from openness By Andreas Kappeler

1214. Estonia: making the most of human capital By Andrés Fuentes Hutfilter

1213. The Czech labour market: documenting structural change and remaining challenges By Sónia Araújo and Petr Maleček

1212. Reforming the Slovak public sector Lilas Demmou and Robert Price

1211. Spurring growth in lagging regions in the Slovak Republic Lilas Demmou, Martin Haluš, Gabriel Machlica and Robert Menkyna

1210. Skill mismatch and public policy in OECD countries Müge Adalet McGowan and Dan Andrews

1209. Labour market mismatch and labour productivity: evidence from PIAAC data Müge Adalet McGowan and Dan Andrews

1208. Maintaining an efficient and equitable housing market in Belgium Sanne Zwart

1207. Determinants of the low female labour force participation in India Piritta Sorsa, Jan Mares, Mathilde Didier, Caio Guimaraes, Marie Rabate, Gen Tang and Annamaria Tuske

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1206. Strengthening skill use and school-to-work transitions in the Czech Republic Sónia Araújo and Petr Maleček

1205. Reforming the tax on immovable property: taking care of the unloved Hansjörg Blöchliger

1204. Taxation and investment in Colombia Sarah Perret and Bert Brys OECD

1203. Efficiency and contestability in the Colombian banking system Christian Daude and Julien Pascal

1202. Fiscal decentralisation in Colombia: new evidence regarding sustainability, risk sharing and "fiscal fatigue" Guillaume Bousquet, Christian Daude and Christine de La Maisonneuve

1201. Effects of economic policies on microeconomic stability Boris Cournède, Paula Garda and Volker Ziemann

1200. The 2013 update of the OECD’s database on product market regulation – policy insights for OECD and non-OECD countries Isabell Koske, Isabelle Wanner, Rosamaria Bitetti and Omar Barbiero

1199. Improving taxes and transfers in Australia Philip Hemmings and Annamaria Tuske

1198. Federal-state relations in Australia Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou and Annamaria Tuske

1197. Sharing the fruits of growth with all Eduardo Olaberriá and Valéry Dugain

1196. What makes Mexicans happy? Valéry Dugain and Eduardo Olaberriá

1195. Improving the labour market integration of immigrants in Belgium Álvaro Pina, Vincent Corluy and Gerlinde Verbist

1194. Raising the potential of the domestically oriented sector in Germany André Eid and Andrés Fuentes Hutfilter

1193. Improving transport infrastructure in Russia Alexander Kolik, Artur Radziwill and Natalia Turdyeva

1192. Improving the business climate in Russia Artur Radziwill and Yana Vaziakova

1191. Determinants of female entrepreneurship in India Arnaud Daymard

1190. The changing role of the exchange rate for macroeconomic adjustment Patrice Ollivaud, Elena Rusticelli and Cyrille Schwellnus

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1189. Boosting productivity in Russia: skills, education and innovation By Lilas Demmou and Andreas Wörgötter

1188. Boosting growth and reducing informality in Mexico Sean Dougherty

1187. The conduct of monetary policy in the future: instrument use By Kei-Ichiro Inaba, Rory O’Farrell, Łukasz Rawdanowicz and Ane Kathrine Christensen

1186. A constant market share analysis of Spanish exports By Alberto Gonzalez Pandiella

1185. Raising the economic participation of women in India – a new growth engine? Piritta Sorsa

1184. Improving health outcomes and health care in India Isabelle Joumard and Ankit Kumar

1183. Challenges and opportunities of India’s manufacturing sector Isabelle Joumard, Urban Sila and Hermes Morgavi

2014

1182. The heterogeneity of product market regulations Jean-Marc Fournier

1181. Implicit regulatory barriers in the EU Single Market: new empirical evidence from gravity models Jean-Marc Fournier, Aurore Domps, Yaëlle Gorin, Xavier Guillet and Délia Morchoisne

1180. Can pro-growth policies lift all boats? An analysis based on household disposable income Orsetta Causa, Alain de Serres and Nicolas Ruiz

1179. Empirical evidence on the effects of stringency on productivity growth Silvia Albrizio, Tomasz Koźluk and Vera Zipperer

1178. The indicators of the economic burdens of environmental policy design – results from the OECD questionnaire Tomasz Koźluk

1177. Measuring environmental policy stringency in OECD countries - a composite index approach Enrico Botta and Tomasz Koźluk

1176. Do environmental policies matter for productivity growth? Insights from new cross- country measures of environmental policies Silvia Albrizio, Enrico Botta, Tomasz Koźluk and Vera Zipperer

1175. Making economic growth more socially inclusive in Germany

18

Andreas Kappeler, Andrés Fuentes Hutfilter

1174. New tax and expenditure elasticity estimates for EU budget surveillance Robert W.R. Price, Thai-Thanh Dang and Yvan Guillemette

1173. Moving towards a more dynamic business sector in Spain Alberto Gonzalez Pandiella

1172. Better harnessing talent and knowledge to boost sustainable medium-term growth in Spain David Haugh and Ben Westmore

1171. The internet economy – regulatory challenges and practices Isabell Koske, Rosamaria Bitetti, Isabelle Wanner and Ewan Sutherland

1170. A revival of the private rental sector of the housing market? Lessons from Germany, Finland, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands Rik De Boer and Rosamaria Bitetti

1169. Secular stagnation: evidence and implications for Łukasz Rawdanowicz, Romain Bouis, Kei-Ichiro Inaba and Ane Kathrine Christensen

1168. Investment gaps after the crisis Christine Lewis, Nigel Pain, Jan Strasky and Fusako Menkyna

1167. Factors behind the decline in real long-term government bond yields Romain Bouis, Kei-Ichiro Inaba, Łukasz Rawdanowicz and Ane Kathrine Christensen

1166. The effect of the global financial crisis on the OECD potential output Patrice Ollivaud and David Turner

1165. Determinants of ’ investment in energy efficiency and renewables - evidence from the OECD Survey on household environmental behaviour and attitudes Nadia Ameli and Nicola Brandt

1164. Addressing high household debt in Korea Randall S. Jones and Myungkyoo Kim

1163. Reducing the high rate of poverty among the elderly in Korea Randall S. Jones and Satoshi Urasawa

1162. Promoting the financing of SMEs and start-ups in Korea Randall S. Jones and Myungkyoo Kim

1161. Fostering inclusive growth in Turkey by promoting structural change in the business sector Rauf Gönenç, Oliver Röhn, Vincent Koen and Fethi Ögünç

1160. Reducing macroeconomic imbalances in Turkey Oliver Röhn, Rauf Gönenç, Vincent Koen and Evren Erdogan Cosar

1159. Reinvigorating the EU Single Market Jean-Marc Fournier

19

1158. An exploration of the determinants of the subjective well-being of Americans during the Great Recession Aida Caldera Sánchez and Caroline Tassot

1157. Boosting the development of efficient SMEs in the Netherlands Rafał Kierzenkowski and Jochebed Kastaneer

1156. Making the banking sector more resilient and reducing household debt in the Netherlands Rafał Kierzenkowski, Olena Havrylchyk and Pierre Beynet

1155. US long term rates and capital flows to emerging economies Eduardo Olaberria

1154. Productivity measurement with and bad outputs Nicola Brandt, Paul Schreyer and Vera Zipperer

1153. Reducing income inequality and poverty and promoting in Korea Randall S. Jones et Satoshi Urasawa

1152. Fostering a creative economy to drive Korean growth Randall S. Jones

1151. Economic uncertainties and their impact on activity in Greece compared with Ireland and Portugal Jan-David Schneider and Claude Giorno

1150. Workplace stress in the United States: issues and policies Michael Darden

1149. Taxing the rent of non-renewable resource sectors: a theoretical note Julien Daubanes and Saraly Andrade de Sá

1148. Health, work and working conditions: a review of the European economic literature Thomas Barnay

1147. Making the best of new energy resources in the United States Douglas Sutherland

1146. Improving well-being in the United States Aida Caldera Sánchez, Patrick Lenain and Sarah Fléche

1145. Deconstructing Canada’s housing markets: finance, affordability and urban sprawl Calista Cheung Restructurer les marchés canadiens du logement : financements, accessibilité financière et étalement urbain Calista Cheung

1144. Women’s role in the Swiss economy Richard Dutu Le rôle des femmes dans l’économie suisse Richard Dutu

20

1143. Overcoming skills in Canada David Carey Combler les pénuries de compétences au Canada David Carey

1142. Trade patterns in the 2060 world economy Jean Chateau, Lionel Fontagné, Jean Fouré, Åsa Johansson and Eduardo Olaberria

1141. The demand for skills 1995-2008: a global supply chain perspective Bart Los, Marcel P. Timmer and Gaaitzen J. De Vries

1140. International migration: the relationship with economic and policy factors in the home and destination country Ben Westmore

1139. Gross earning inequalities in OECD countries and major non-member economies: determinants and future scenarios Henrik Braconier and Jenifer Ruiz Valenzuela

1138. Determinants of tertiary graduations Henrik Braconier

1137. Managerial capital and business R&D as enablers of productivity convergence Dan Andrews and Ben Westmore

1136. Long-term patterns of trade and specialisation Åsa Johansson and Eduardo Olaberria

1135. Consequences of damages for economic growth – a dynamic quantitative assessment Rob Dellink, Elisa Lanzi, Jean Chateau, Francesco Bosello, Ramiro Parrado and Kelly de Bruin

1134. Comparing the robustness of PAYG pension schemes Falilou Fall

1133. Overcoming vulnerabilities of pension systems Falilou Fall and Debbie Bloch

1132. Overcoming vulnerabilities of health care systems Mauro Pisu

1131. Overcoming vulnerability of unemployment insurance schemes Jon Pareliussen

1130. Vulnerability of social institutions: lessons from the recent crisis and historical episodes Falilou Fall, Mauro Pisu, Jon Pareliussen and Debbie Bloch

1129. An update of the OECD international trade equations Myriam Morin and Cyrille Schwellnus

1128. What explains the volume and composition of trade? Industrial evidence from a panel of countries

21

Åsa Johansson, Przemyslaw Kowalski, Eduardo Olaberría and Dario Pellegrino

1127. Do resources flow to patenting firms? Cross-country evidence from firm level data Dan Andrews, Chiara Criscuolo and Carlo Menon

1126. Macroprudential policy tools in Norway: strengthening financial system resilience Yosuke Jin, Patrick Lenain and Paul O’Brien

1125. Strengthening competition in Poland Balázs Égert and Antoine Goujard

1124. Making the labour market work better in Poland Hervé Boulhol

1123. Enhancing competition and the business environment in Hungary Alvaro Pina

1122. Tackling labour mismatches and promoting mobility in Hungary Stéphane Sorbe

1121. Local public finances and municipal reform in Finland Christophe André and Clara Garcia

1120. The economic consequences of ageing: the case of Finland Christine de la Maisonneuve, Christophe André, Clara Garcia and Vincent Koen

1119. Making the most of skills in Denmark Stéphanie Jamet and Vincent Koen

1118. Trade specialisation and policies to foster competition and innovation in Denmark Müge Adalet McGowan

1117. Policies for making the Chilean labour market more inclusive Aida Caldera Sanchez

1116. effects from exiting higher expansionary monetary policies Lukasz Rawdanowicz, Romain Bouis, Jérôme Brezillon, Ane Kathrine Christensen and Kei-Ichiro Inaba

1115. Economic policies and microeconomic stability: a literature review and some empirics Paula Garda and Volker Ziemann

1114. How to improve Israel’s health-care system Philip Hemmings

1113. How to improve taxes and transfers in Israel Philip Hemmings

1112. New evidence on the determinants of industrial specialisation Asa Johansson and Eduardo Olaberria

1111. Economic growth from the household perspective: GDP and income distribution developments across OECD countries

22

Orsetta Causa, Sonia Araujo, Agnès Cavaciuti, Nicolas Ruiz and Zuzana Smidova

1110. Would a growth slowdown in emerging markets spill over to high-income countries? A quantitative assessment Patrice Ollivaud, Elena Rusticelli and Cyrille Schwellnus

1109. Short-term indicator models for quarterly GDP Growth in the BRIICS: a small-scale bridge model approach Thomas Chalaux and Cyrille Schwellnus

1108. The prudential regulation of financial institutions: why regulatory responses to the crisis might not prove sufficient William R. White

1107. OECD forecasts during and after the financial crisis: a post mortem Nigel Pain, Christine Lewis, Thai-Thanh Dang, Yosuke Jin and Pete Richardson

1106. Fairly sharing the social impact of the crisis in Greece Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou, Manos Matsaganis, Chrysa Leventi and Jan-David Schneider

1105. Dividing the pie in Brazil: income distribution, social policies and the new middle class Jens M. Arnold and João Jalles

2013

1104. New indicators of competition and policy in 2013 for OECD and non-OECD countries Enrico Alemani, Caroline Klein, Isabell Koske, Cristiana Vitale and Isabelle Wanner

1103. The effect of government debt, external debt and their interaction on OECD interest rates David Turner and Francesca Spinelli

1102. The state of the banking sector in Europe Dirk Schoenmaker and Toon Peek

1101. Getting Irish youth on the job track Alberto Gonzalez Pandiella

1100. New econometric estimates of long-term growth effects of different areas of public spending Omar Barbiero and Boris Cournède

1099. Cross-country spillovers from fiscal consolidations Antoine Goujard

1098. Informal employment in Russia: definitions, incidence, determinants and labour market segmentation Hartmut Lehmann and Anzelika Zaiceva

1097. Capacity needs in the automobile industry in the short- to medium run Caroline Klein and Isabell Koske

23

1096. Environmental policies and productivity growth - a critical review of empirical findings Tomasz Koźluk and Vera Zipperer

1095. challenges and the need for an energy reform in Mexico Carla Valdivia de Richter

1094. From bricks to brains: increasing the contribution of knowledge-based capital to growth in Ireland David Haugh

1093. China’s march to prosperity: reforms to avoid the middle-income trap Vincent Koen, Richard Herd and Sam Hill

1092. Productivity measurement with natural capital Nicola Brandt, Paul Schreyer and Vera Zipperer

1091. Growth-promoting policies and macroeconomic stability Douglas Sutherland and Peter Hoeller

1090. Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China Vincent Koen, Richard Herd, Xiao Wang and Thomas Chalaux

1089. Fiscal devaluation – can it help to boost competitiveness? Isabell Koske

1088. How to achieve growth- and equity-friendly fiscal consolidation? A proposed methodology for instrument choice with an illustrative application to OECD countries Boris Cournède, Antoine Goujard and Álvaro Pina

1087. Improving school-to-work transitions in New Zealand Alexandra Bibbee

1086. The agri food situation and policies in Switzerland Peter Jarrett and Charlotte Moeser

1085. Japan’s challenging debt dynamics Yvan Guillemette and Jan Strasky

1084. Transitions in and out of unemployment among young people in the Irish recession Elish Kelly, Seamus McGuinness, Philip O’Connell, David Haugh and Alberto González Pandiella

1083. Is there convergence of Russia’s regions? Exploring the empirical evidence: 1995-2010 Hartmut Lehmann and Maria Giulia Silvagni

1082. The benefits and costs of highly expansionary monetary policy Łukasz Rawdanowicz, Romain Bouis and Shingo Watanabe

1081. The effectiveness of monetary policy since the onset of the financial crisis Romain Bouis, Łukasz Rawdanowicz, Jean-Paul Renne, Shingo Watanabe and Ane Kathrine Christensen

24

1080. Responding to key well-being challenges in Austria Rauf Gönenç, Oliver Röhn, Christian Beer and Andreas Wörgötter

1079. Austria’s well-being goes beyond GDP Oliver Röhn, Rauf Gönenç, Christian Beer and Romina Boarini

1078. Improving fiscal federal relations for a stronger Mexico Aida Caldera Sánchez

1077. Deleveraging: challenges, progress and policies Romain Bouis, Ane Kathrine Christensen and Boris Cournède

1076. Policies to support sustainable long-term growth in New Zealand Calista Cheung

1075. Do structural policies affect macroeconomic stability? Volker Ziemann

1074. A simple fiscal stress testing model - case studies of Austrian, Czech and German economies Ondra Kamenik, Zdenek Tuma, David Vavra and Zuzana Smidova

1073. connectivity and the border effect: evidence from Europe Henrik Braconier and Mauro Pisu

1072. Fiscal consolidation across government levels. Part 3: Intergovernmental grants, pro- or counter-cyclical? Hansjörg Blöchliger and Balázs Égert

1071. Fiscal consolidation across government levels. Part 2: Fiscal rules for sub-central governments, update of the institutional indicator Kaja Fredriksen

1070. Fiscal consolidation across government levels. Part 1: How much, what policies? Hansjörg Blöchliger

1069. Restructuring the electricity sector and promoting green growth in Japan Randall S. Jones and Myungkyoo Kim

1068. Labour market policies to promote growth and social cohesion in Korea Randall S. Jones and Satoshi Urasawa

1067. in Korea Randall S. Jones

1066. Belgium: enhancing the cost efficiency and flexibility of the health sector to adjust to population ageing Stéphane Sorbe

1065. Italy and the euro area crisis: securing fiscal sustainability and financial stability Oliver Denk

1064. Policy implementation in Italy: legislation, public administration and the rule of law

25

Paul O’Brien

1063. Greening growth in Luxembourg Nicola Brandt Vers une croissance plus verte en Luxembourg Nicola Brandt

1062. The post-crisis narrowing of international imbalances – cyclical or durable? Patrice Ollivaud and Cyrille Schwellnus

1061. Restructuring welfare spending in Slovenia Rafał Kierzenkowski

1060. The economics of civil justice: new cross-country data and empirics G. Palumbo, G. Giupponi, L. Nunziata and J. Mora-Sanguinetti

1059. Banks’ restructuring and smooth deleveraging of the private sector in Slovenia Olena Havrylchyk

1058. Assessing the efficiency of welfare spending in Slovenia with data envelopment analysis Matevz Hribernik and Rafał Kierzenkowski

1057. Policy determinants of school outcomes under model uncertainty: evidence from South Africa Thomas Laurent, Fabrice Murtin, Geoff Barnard, Dean Janse van Rensburg, Vijay Reddy, George Frempong and Lolita Winnaar

1056. Improving education quality in South Africa Fabrice Murtin

1055. The 90% public debt threshold: the rise and fall of a stylised fact Balázs Égert

1054. Challenges to sustain Poland’s growth model Balázs Égert and Rafał Kierzenkowski

1053. Reforming agriculture and promoting Japan’s integration in the world economy Randall S. Jones and Shingo Kimura

1052. Inequality and poverty in the United States: public policies for inclusive growth Oliver Denk, Robert Hagemann, Patrick Lenain and Valentin Somma

1051. Fiscal federalism and its impact on economic activity, public investment and the performance of educational systems Hansjörg Blöchliger, Balázs Égert and Kaja Fredriksen

1050. Restoring Japan’s fiscal sustainability Randall S. Jones and Satoshi Urasawa

1049. Measuring total factor productivity at the firm level using OECD-ORBIS Peter N. Gal

26

1048. A projection method for public health and long-term care expenditures Christine de la Maisonneuve and Joaquim Oliveira Martins

1047. R&D, patenting and growth: the role of public policy By Ben Westmore

1046. Knowledge-based capital, innovation and resource allocation Dan Andrews and Chiara Criscuolo

1045. Reforms for a cleaner, healthier environment in China Sam Hill

1044. Making the tax system less distortive in Switzerland Andrés Fuentes

1043. The determinants of informality in Mexico’s states By Sean M. Dougherty and Octavio Escobar

1042. Legal reform, contract enforcement and firm size in Mexico By Sean M. Dougherty

1041. Improving the economic situation of young people in France By Hervé Boulhol Améliorer la situation économique des jeunes en France Par Hervé Boulhol

1040. Improving employment prospects for young workers in Spain By Anita Wölfl

1039. Youth labour market performance in Spain and its determinants - a micro-level perspective By Juan J. Dolado, Marcel Jansen, Florentino Felgueroso, Andrés Fuentes and Anita Wölfl

1038. The efficiency and equity of the tax and transfer system in France By Balázs Égert Efficacité et équité du système de prélèvements et de transferts en France Par Balázs Égert

1037. Income inequality and poverty in Colombia. Part 2. The redistributive impact of taxes and transfers By Isabelle Joumard and Juliana Londoño Vélez

1036. Income inequality and poverty in Colombia. Part 1. The role of the labour market By Isabelle Joumard and Juliana Londoño Vélez

1035. Policy options to durably resolve euro area imbalances By Yvan Guillemette and Dave Turner

1034. Labour market, welfare reform and inequality in the United Kingdom By Christophe André, Clara Garcia, Giulia Giupponi and Jon Kristian Pareliussen

1033. Work incentives and Universal Credit – reform of the benefit system in the United Kingdom

27

By Jon Kristian Pareliussen

1032. Strengthening social cohesion in Luxembourg: making efficiency and equity go hand in hand By Jean-Marc Fournier and Clara Garcia

1031. The price of oil – will it start rising again? By Jean-Marc Fournier, Isabell Koske, Isabelle Wanner and Vera Zipperer

1030. The system of revenue sharing and fiscal transfers in China by Xiao Wang and Richard Herd

1029. The declining competitiveness of French firms reflects a generalised supply-side problem by Hervé Boulhol and Patrizio Sicari

1028. Do the average level and dispersion of socio-economic background measures explain France’s gap in PISA scores? by Hervé Boulhol and Patrizio Sicari

1027. Labour market performance by age groups: a focus on France by Hervé Boulhol and Patrizio Sicari

1026. Moving towards a single labour contract: pros, cons and mixed feelings by Nicolas Lepage-Saucier, Juliette Schleich and Etienne Wasmer

1025. Boosting productivity in Australia by Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou and Omar Barbiero

1024. Housing, financial and capital taxation policies to ensure robust growth in Sweden by Müge Adalet McGowan

1023. Labour market and social policies to foster more inclusive growth in Sweden by Stéphanie Jamet, Thomas Chalaux and Vincent Koen

1022. Educational attainment and labour market outcomes in South Africa, 1994-2010 by Nicola Branson and Murray Leibbrandt

1021. Education quality and labour market outcomes in South Africa by Nicola Branson and Murray Leibbrandt

1020. Do policies that reduce unemployment raise its volatility? Evidence from OECD countries by Alain de Serres and Fabrice Murtin

1019. Slovakia: A catching up euro area member in and out of the crisis by Jarko Fidrmuc, Caroline Klein, Robert Price and Andreas Wörgötter

1018. Improving the fiscal framework to enhance growth in an era of fiscal consolidation in Slovakia by Caroline Klein, Robert Price and Andreas Wörgötter

1017. Investing efficiently in education and active labour market policies in Slovakia

28 by Caroline Klein

1016. The performance of road transport infrastructure and its links to policies by Henrik Braconier, Mauro Pisu and Debra Bloch

1015. The US labour market recovery following the great recession by Wendy Dunn

1014. Why do Russian Firms Use Fixed-Term and Agency Work Contracts? by Larisa Smirnykh, Andreas Wörgötter

1013. The Equity Implications of Fiscal Consolidation by Lukasz Rawdanowicz, Eckhard Wurzel, Ane Kathrine Christensen

1012. The Dutch Labour Market by Mathijs Gerritsen, Jens Høj

1011. Reforming Policies for the Business Sector to Harvest the Benefits of Globalisation in the Netherlands by Mathijs Gerritsen, Jens Høj

1010. Health Care Reform and Long-Term Care in the Netherlands by Erik Schut, Stéphane Sorbe, Jens Høj

1009. Enhancing the inclusiveness of the labour market in Belgium by Jens Høj

2012

1008. Reducing poverty in Estonia through activation and better targeting Sarah Flèche, Artur Radziwill

1007. Matching skills and jobs in Estonia by Lilas Demmou

1006. Debt and macroeconomic stability: An overview of the literature and some empirics by Douglas Sutherland and Peter Hoeller

1005. Debt and macroeconomic stability: Debt and the business cycle by Volker Ziemann

1004. Debt and macroeconomic stability: Case studies by Rossana Merola

1003. Debt and macroeconomic stability by Douglas Sutherland, Peter Hoeller, Rossana Merola and Volker Ziemann

1002. Reducing in a cost effective way in Switzerland By Anita Wölfl and Patrizio Sicari

1001. Strengthening innovation in the United States By David Carey, Christopher Hill and Brian Kahin

29

1000. Long-term growth scenarios By Åsa Johansson, Yvan Guillemette, Fabrice Murtin, David Turner, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Christine de la Maisonneuve, Philip Bagnoli, Guillaume Bousquet and Francesca Spinelli

999. Selected aspects of household in Germany – evidence from micro data By Christina Kolerus, Isabell Koske and Felix Hüfner

998. Improving the Tax System in Indonesia By Jens Arnold

997. Unleashing Business Innovation in Canada By Alexandra Bibbee

996. Public policy and resource allocation: evidence from firms in OECD countries By Dan Andrews and Federico Cingano

995. Promoting SME development in Indonesia By Annabelle Mourougane

994. Portugal: Rebalancing the Economy and Returning to Growth Through Job Creation and Better Capital Allocation By Álvaro Pina, Ildeberta Abreu

993. Public Debt, Economic Growth and Nonlinear Effects: Myth or Reality By Balázs Égert

992. Choosing the pace of fiscal consolidation By Lukasz Rawdanowicz

991. Tertiary education developing skills for innovation and long term growth in Canada By Calista Cheung, Yvan Guillemette and Shahrzad Mobasher Fard

990. Trade and product market policies in upstream sectors and productivity in downstream sectors: firm-level evidence from China By Maria Bas and Orsetta Causa

989. Intangible assets, resource allocation and growth: a framework for analysis By Dan Andrews and Alain de Serres

988. Current account benchmarks for Turkey By Oliver Röhn

987. Structural reforms to boost Turkey's long-term growth By Rauf Gönenç, Oliver Röhn, Vincent Koen and Şeref Saygili

986. Tackling Turkey's external and domestic macroeconomic imbalances By Oliver Röhn, Rauf Gönenç, Vincent Koen and Ramazan Karaşahin

985. Portugal: Solid foundations for a sustainable fiscal consolidation By David Haugh and Stéphane Sorbe

30

984. Portugal: Assessing the risks around the speed of fiscal consolidation in an uncertain environment By Stéphane Sorbe

983. The German labour market: preparing for the future By Felix Hüfner and Caroline Klein

982. Climate change policies in Germany: make ambition pay By Caroline Klein

981. Restarting the growth engine in Finland By Henrik Braconier

980. competition, domestic regulation and firm-level productivity growth in the OECD By Sarra Ben Yahmed and Sean Dougherty

979. Non-parametric stochastic simulations to investigate uncertainty around the OECD indicator model forecasts By Elena Rusticelli

978. Measuring GDP forecast uncertainty using quantile regressions By Thomas Laurent and Tomasz Kozluk

977. Implications of output gap uncertainty in times of crisis Romain Bouis, Boris Cournède and Ane Kathrine Christensen

976. Avoiding debt traps: financial backstops and structural reforms By , Urban Sila and Paul van den Noord

975. Sluggish productivity growth in Denmark: the usual suspects? By Müge Adalet McGowan and Stéphanie Jamet

974. Towards green growth in Denmark: improving energy and climate change policies By Stéphanie Jamet

973. An analysis of productivity performance in Spain before and during the crisis: Exploring the role of institutions By Juan S. Mora-Sanguinetti and Andrés Fuentes

972. Europe's new fiscal rules By Sebastian Barnes, David Davidsson and Łukasz Rawdanowicz

971. Credit crises and the shortcomings of traditional policy responses By William R. White

970. International Capital Mobility and Financial Fragility Part 7. Enhancing Financial Stability: Country-specific Evidence on Financial Account and Structural Policy Positions By Rudiger Ahrend and Carla Valdivia

969. International Capital Mobility and Financial Fragility Part 6. Are all Forms of Financial Integration Equally Risky in Times of Financial Turmoil? Asset Price Contagion during the Global Financial Crisis

31

By Rudiger Ahrend and Antoine Goujard

968. International Capital Mobility and Financial Fragility Part 5. Do Investors Disproportionately Shed Assets of Distant Countries under Increased Uncertainty? Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis By Rudiger Ahrend and Cyrille Schwellnus

967. International capital mobility and financial fragility Part 4. Which structural policies stabilise capital flows when investors suddenly change their mind? Evidence from bilateral bank data By Rudiger Ahrend, Cyrille Schwellnus

966. International Capital Mobility and Financial Fragility Part 3. How do structural policies affect financial crisis risk? Evidence from past crises across OECD and emerging economies By Rudiger Ahrend and Antoine Goujard

965. Sustaining Korea’s convergence to the highest-income countries By Randall S. Jones and Satoshi Urasawa

964. Achieving the “low carbon, green growth” vision in Korea By Randall S. Jones and Byungseo Yoo

963. Promoting social cohesion in Korea By Randall S. Jones and Satoshi Urasawa

962. Housing price and investment dynamics in Finland By Christophe André and Clara García

961. Improving health outcomes and system in Hungary By Mehmet Eris

960. Towards a more inclusive labour market in Hungary By Rafal Kierzenkowski

959. Ensuring stability and efficiency of the Hungarian financial sector By Olena Havrylchyk

958. Ensuring debt sustainability amid strong economic uncertainty in Hungary By Pierre Beynet and Rafal Kierzenkowski

957. Improving the health care system in Poland By Hervé Boulhol, Agnieszka Sowa and Stanislawa Golinowska

956. Options for benchmarking infrastructure performance By Mauro Pisu, Peter Hoeller and Isabelle Joumard

955. Greenhouse gas emissions and price elasticities of transport fuel demand in Belgium By Tom Schmitz

954. Bringing Belgian public finances to a sustainable path By Tomasz Kozluk, Alain Jousten and Jens Høj

32

953. Climate change policies in Poland – minimising abatement costs By Balázs Égert

952. Income inequality in the European Union By Kaja Bonesmo Fredriksen

951. Reducing poverty in Chile: cash transfers and better jobs By Nicola Brandt

950. Tax reform in Norway: a focus on capital taxation By Oliver Denk

949. The short-term effects of structural reforms: an empirical analysis By Romain Bouis, Orsetta Causa, Lilas Demmou, Romain Duval and Aleksandra Zdzienicka

948. Short-term gain or pain? A DSGE model-based analysis of the short-term effects of structural reforms in labour and product markets By Matteo Cacciatore, Romain Duval and Giuseppe Fiori

947. Do house prices impact consumption and ? Evidence from OECD countries using an agnostic identification procedure By Christophe André, Rangan Gupta and Patrick T. Kanda

946. Assessing the sensitivity of Hungarian debt sustainability to macroeconomic shocks under two reactions By Pierre Beynet and Edouard Paviot

945. Non-Keynesian effects of fiscal consolidation: an analysis with an estimated DSGE Model for the Hungarian economy By Szilárd Benk and Zoltán M. Jakab

944. Work incentives and recent reforms of the tax and benefit system in Hungary By Tímea Ladányi and Rafal Kierzenkowski

943. Building blocks for a better functioning housing market in Chile By Aida Caldera Sánchez

942. The impact of changes in second pension pillars on public finances in Central and Eastern Europe By Balázs Égert

941. Improving energy system efficiency in the Czech Republic By Artur Radziwill

940. Structural change and the current account: the case of Germany By Fabrizio Coricelli and Andreas Wörgötter

939. Reforming education in By Henrik Braconier

938. The nature of financial and real business cycles: the great moderation and banking sector pro-cyclicality By Balázs Égert and Douglas Sutherland

33

937. Fiscal consolidation: Part 6. What are the best policy instruments for fiscal consolidation? By Robert P. Hagemann

936. Fiscal consolidation: Part 5. What factors determine the success of consolidation efforts? By Margit Molnar

935. Fiscal consolidation: Part 4. Case studies of large fiscal consolidation episodes By Hansjörg Blöchliger, Dae-Ho Song and Douglas Sutherland

934. Fiscal consolidation: Part 3. Long-run projections and fiscal gap calculations By Rossana Merola and Douglas Sutherland

933. Fiscal consolidation: Part 2. Fiscal multipliers and fiscal consolidations By Ray Barrell, Dawn Holland and Ian Hurst

932. Fiscal consolidation: Part 1. How much is needed and how to reduce debt to a prudent level? By Douglas Sutherland, Peter Hoeller and Rossana Merola

931. Less income inequality and more growth – Are they compatible? Part 8. The drivers of labour income inequality – A literature review By Rafal Kierzenkowski and Isabell Koske

930. Less income inequality and more growth – are they compatible? Part 7. The drivers of labour earnings inequality – An analysis based on conditional and unconditional quantile regressions By Jean-Marc Fournier and Isabell Koske

929. Less income inequality and more growth – are they compatible? Part 6. The distribution of wealth by Kaja Bonesmo Fredriksen

928. Less income inequality and more growth – are they compatible? Part 5. Poverty in OECD countries By Mauro Pisu

927. Less income inequality and more growth – are they compatible? Part 4. Top incomes By Peter Hoeller

926. Less income inequality and more growth – are they compatible? Part 3. Income redistribution via taxes and transfers across OECD countries By Isabelle Joumard, Mauro Pisu and Debbie Bloch

925. Less income inequality and more growth – are they compatible? Part 2. The distribution of labour income By Isabell Koske, Jean-Marc Fournier and Isabelle Wanner

924. Less income inequality and more growth – are they compatible? Part 1. Mapping income inequality across the OECD By Peter Hoeller, Isabelle Joumard, Mauro Pisu and Debbie Bloch

34

2011

923. Current issues in managing government debt and assets By Łukasz Rawdanowicz, Eckhard Wurzel and Patrice Ollivaud

922. Public spending efficiency in the Czech Republic: fiscal policy framework and the main spending areas of and healthcare By Zuzana Smidova

921. Exploring determinants of subjective wellbeing in OECD countries – evidence from the World Value Survey By Sarah Fleche, Conal Smith and Piritta Sorsa

920. Russia: Progress in structural reform and framework conditions By Yana Vaziakova, Geoff Barnard and Tatiana Lysenko

919. Explaining the interest-rate-growth differential underlying government debt dynamics By David Turner and Francesca Spinelli

918. Reassessing the NAIRUs after the crisis By Stéphanie Guichard and Elena Rusticelli

917. Employment protection legislation and plant-level productivity in India By Sean Dougherty, Verónica Frisancho Robles & Kala Krishna

916. Systemically important banks and capital regulation challenges By Patrick Slovik

915. Improving educational outcomes in Slovenia By Mehmet Eris

914. Addressing challenges in the energy sector in Israel By Philip Hemmings

913. Issues in private sector finance in Israel By Philip Hemmings

912. How to improve the economic policy framework for the housing market in Israel By Philip Hemmings

911. Fiscal prospects and reforms in India By Richard Herd, Sam Hill and Vincent Koen

910. Structural reforms to reduce unemployment and restore competitiveness in Ireland By Álvaro Pina

909. Getting back on track: restoring fiscal sustainability in Ireland By David Haugh

908. A welfare analysis of climate change mitigation policies By Alain de Serres and Fabrice Murtin

35

907. Overcoming the banking crisis in Ireland By Muge Adalet McGowan

906. Macroeconomic and structural policies to further stabilise the Mexican economy By Cyrille Schwellnus

905. Reaping the benefits of a transition to greener growth in Slovakia By Caroline Klein

904. Fiscal reform for a stronger fairer and cleaner Mexican economy By Nicola Brandt and Rodrigo Paillacar

903. International capital mobility and financial fragility: Part 2. The demand for safe assets in emerging economies and global imbalances: new empirical evidence By Rudiger Ahrend and Cyrille Schwellnus

902. International capital mobility and financial fragility: Part 1. Drivers of Systemic Banking Crises: the Role of Bank-Balance-Sheet Contagion and Financial Account Structure By Rudiger Ahrend and Antoine Goujard

901. Explaining the appreciation of the Brazilian real By Annabelle Mourougane

900. Raising investment in Brazil By Jens Arnold

899. Refining macroeconomic policies to sustain growth in Brazil By Annabelle Mourougane

898. Promoting infrastructure development in Brazil By Annabelle Mourougane and Mauro Pisu

897. Austria: public sector inefficiencies have become less affordable By Karin Fischer, Rauf Gönenç and Robert Price

896. Informality in Mexico By Nicola Brandt

895. Reforming Austria’s highly regarded but costly By Rauf Gönenç, Maria M. Hofmarcher, Andreas Wörgötter

894. Greener growth in the Belgian federation By Tomasz Kozluk

893. Green growth and climate change policies in New Zealand By Alexandra Bibbee

892 Has deregulation increased investment in infrastructure? Firm-level evidence from OECD countries By Sónia Araújo

891 Ensuring a sustainable and efficient fishery in Iceland By Gunnar Haraldsson and David Carey

36

890. Japan’s New Growth Strategy to create demand and jobs By Randall S. Jones and Byungseo Yoo

889. Labour market reforms in Japan to improve growth and equity By Randall S. Jones and Satoshi Urasawa

888. Education reform in Japan By Randall S. Jones

887. The of climate change mitigation policies: how to build a constituency to address global warming? By Alain de Serres, John Llewellyn and Preston Llewellyn

886. Climate-change policy in the United Kingdom By Alex Bowen and James Rydge

885. Improving access and quality in the Indian education system By Sam Hill and Thomas Chalaux

884. How institutions shape the distributive impact of macroeconomic shocks: a DSGE analysis By Rudiger Ahrend, Charlotte Moeser and Tommaso Monacelli

883. Can India achieve double-digit growth? By Richard Herd, Paul Conway, Sam Hill, Vincent Koen and Thomas Chalaux

882. Predicting peaks and troughs in real house prices By Linda Rousová and Paul van den Noord

881. Public sector spending efficiency in Estonia: healthcare and local government By Zuzana Smidova

880. How to move product market regulation in New Zealand back towards the frontier By Paul Conway

879. Financial sector reform in India: time for a second wave? By Richard Herd, Vincent Koen, Ila Paitnak and Ajay Shah

878. Policies to rebalance housing markets in New Zealand By Calista Cheung

877. The sharing of macroeconomic risk: who loses (and gains) from macroeconomic shocks By Rudiger Ahrend, Jens Arnold and Charlotte Moeser

876. Estonia: making the most of globalisation By Robert Price and Andreas Wörgötter

875. The effects of downturns on labour force participation: evidence and causes By Romain Duval, Mehmet Eris and Davide Furceri

874. A dynamic factor model for world trade growth By Stéphanie Guichard and Elena Rusticelli

37

873. Towards a better understanding of the informal economy By Dan Andrews, Aida Caldera Sánchez and Åsa Johansson

872. between sub-central governments By Hansjörg Blöchliger and José-Maria Pinero-Campos

871. The growth effects of current account reversals: the role of macroeconomic policies By Luiz de Mello, Pier Carlo Padoan and Linda Rousová

870. Les politiques du logement en France By Bénédicte Rolland

869. How important is wealth for explaining household consumption over the recent crisis? An empirical study for the United States, Japan and the euro area By Clovis Kerdrain

868. Adjusting fiscal balances for asset price cycles By Robert Price and Thai-Thanh Dang

867. Improving the functioning of the housing market in the United Kingdom By Christophe André

866. Understanding the recent surge in the accumulation of international reserves By Petar Vujanovic

865. Episodes of large capital inflows and the likelihood of banking and crises and sudden stops By Davide Furceri, Stephanie Guichard and Elena Rusticelli

864. The effect of episodes of large capital inflows on domestic credit By Davide Furceri, Stephanie Guichard and Elena Rusticelli

863. Medium-term determinants of international investment positions: the role of structural policies By Davide Furceri, Stephanie Guichard and Elena Rusticelli

862. French social housing in an international context By Kathleen Scanlon and Christine Whitehead

861. Making the French housing market work better Améliorer le fonctionnement du marché du logement français By Hervé Boulhol

860. Surveillance by international institutions: lessons from the global financial and economic crisis By Kumiharu Shigehara and Paul Atkinson

859. France’s environmental policies: internalising global and local Politiques environnementales de la France : internaliser les externalités globales et locales By Balázs Égert

858. Bringing French public debt down: the options for fiscal consolidation

38

Réduire la dette publique française : les options de l’assainissement budgétaire By Balázs Égert

857. Policy frameworks in the post-crisis environment By Nigel Pain and Oliver Röhn

856. Global imbalances, exchange rate pegs and capital flows: a closer look By Paul van den Noord

855. Interest rate pass-through during the global financial crisis: the case of Sweden By Niels-Jakob Harbo Hansen and Peter Welz

854. What drives inflation in the major OECD economies? By Diego Moccero, Shingo Watanabe and Boris Cournède

853. Mitigation potential of removing fossil fuel subsidies: a general equilibrium assessment By J.M. Burniaux and J. Chateau

852. Enhancing labour utilisation in a socially inclusive society in Australia By Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou

851. Meeting infrastructure needs in Australia By Claude Giorno

850. Restoring fiscal sustainability in Spain By Pierre Beynet, Andrés Fuentes, Robert Gillingham and Robert Hagemann

849. Drivers of homeownership rates in selected OECD countries By Dan Andrews and Aida Caldera Sánchez

848. How efficient are banks in Hungary? By Margit Molnár and Dániel Holló

847. Strengthening the macroeconomic policy framework in South Africa By Tatiana Lysenko and Geoff Barnard

846. To move or not to move: what drives residential mobility rates in the OECD? By Aida Caldera Sánchez and Dan Andrews

845. Reforming the labour market in Spain By Anita Wölfl and Juan S. Mora-Sanguinetti

844. Macroeconomic Impact of Basel III By Patrick Slovik and Boris Cournède

843. The policy and institutional drivers of economic growth across OECD and non-OECD economies: new evidence from growth regressions By Romain Bouis, Romain Duval, and Fabrice Murtin

842. Limiting Long-Term Unemployment and Non-Participation in Sweden By Niels-Jakob Harbo Hansen

841. Enhancing the cost-effectiveness of climate change mitigation policies in Sweden

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By Stéphanie Jamet

840 Policies towards a sustainable use of water in Spain By Andrés Fuentes

839 Increasing public sector efficiency in Slovakia By Felix Hüfner

838 Raising education outcomes in Switzerland / Améliorer les résultats de l’enseignement en Suisse By Andrés Fuentes

837 The price responsiveness of housing supply in OECD countries By Aida Caldera Sánchez, Åsa Johansson

836 Housing markets and structural policies in OECD countries By Dan Andrews, Aida Caldera Sánchez, Åsa Johansson

835 Raising potential growth after the crisis: A quantitative assessment of the potential gains from various structural reforms in the OECD area and beyond By Romain Bouis and Romain Duval

834 The GDP impact of reform: a simple simulation framework By Sebastian Barnes, Romain Bouis, Philippe Briard, Sean Dougherty, Mehmet Eris

833. Improving the flexibility of the Dutch housing market to enhance labour mobility By Jens Høj

832. Making the Dutch pension system less vulnerable to financial crises By Jens Høj

2010

831. Real house prices in OECD countries: the role of demand shocks and structural and policy factors By Dan Andrews

830. International financial integration and the external positions of euro area countries By Philip R. Lane

829. Improving fiscal performance through fiscal councils By Robert Hagemann

828. Minimising risks from imbalances in European banking By Sebastian Barnes, Philip Lane and Artur Radziwill

827. Resolving and avoiding unsustainable imbalances in the euro area By Sebastian Barnes

826. Current account imbalances in the euro area: a comparative perspective By Sebastian Barnes, Jeremy Lawson and Artur Radziwill

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825. Does fiscal decentralisation strengthen social capital? Cross-country evidence and the experiences of Brazil and Indonesia By Luiz de Mello (published in Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Vol. 29, pp. 281-96)

824. Fiscal decentralisation and public investment: The experience of Latin America By Luiz de Mello

823. Product market regulation and competition in China By Paul Conway, Richard Herd, Thomas Chalaux, Ping He and Jianxun Yu

822. Reforming China’s monetary policy framework to meet domestic objectives By Paul Conway, Richard Herd and Thomas Chalaux

821. Regulatory reforms to unlock long term growth in Turkey By Rauf Gönenç and Lukasz Rawdanowicz

820. After the crisis: mitigating risks of macroeconomic instability in Turkey By Lukasz Rawdanowicz

819. The 2008-09 crisis in Turkey: performance, policy responses and challenges for sustaining the recovery By Lukasz Rawdanowicz

818. Fiscal consolidation strategies for Canadian governments By Yvan Guillemette

817. The land transport sector: policy and performance By Jan Persson and Daeho Song

816 A Simple Model of the Relationship Between Productivity, and the Current Account By Jean-Marc Fournier, Isabell Koske

815 The Impact of Structural Policies on Saving, Investment and Current Accounts Clovis Kerdrain, Isabell Koske, Isabelle Wanner

814. Towards a less distortive and more efficient tax system in Portugal By Alvaro Pina

813. Are global imbalances sustainable? Shedding further light on the causes of current account reversals By Luiz de Mello, Pier Carlo Padoan, Linda Rousová

812 Turkey’sH Improving Integration with the Global Capital Market: Impacts on Risk Premia and Capital Costs By Rauf Gönenç, Saygin Şahinöz, Őzge Tuncel

811 Trade linkages in the OECD trade system See also: trade matrices in excel By Jérôme Brézillon, Stéphanie Guichard and Dave Turner

810. Enhancing the Effectiveness of Social Policies in Indonesia

41

By Margherita Comola and Luiz de Mello

809. Tackling the Infrastructure Challenge in Indonesia By Mauro Pisu

808. Phasing Out Energy Subsidies in Indonesia By Annabelle Mourougane

807. Implementing Cost-Effective Policies in the United States to Mitigate Climate Change By David Carey

806. Restoring Fiscal Sustainability in the United States By Patrick Lenain, Robert Hagemann and David Carey

805. Norway - Sustainable Development: Climate Change and Fisheries Policies By Paul O’Brien

804. How the Transport System can Contribute to Better Economic and Environmental Outcomes in the Netherlands By Tomasz Koźluk

803. Public-Private Partnerships and Investment in Infrastructure By Sónia Araújo and Douglas Sutherland

802. Sustaining the Momentum of Fiscal Reform in Hungary By Colin Forthun and Robert Hagemann

801. The Consequences of Banking Crises for Public Debt By Davide Furceri and Aleksandra Zdzienicka

800. A Simulation Model of Federal, Provincial and Territorial Government Accounts for the Analysis of Fiscal-Consolidation Strategies in Canada By Yvan Guillemette

799. Product Market Regulation By Anita Wölfl, Isabelle Wanner, Oliver Röhn and Giuseppe Nicoletti

798. Korea’s Green Growth Strategy By Randall S. Jones and Byungseo Yoo

797. Health-Care Reform in Korea (English version) see also 한국의 보건의료개혁 (Korean translation) By Randall S. Jones

796. The Korean Financial System By Masahiko Tsutsumi, Randall S. Jones and Thomas F. Cargill

795. Are Global Imbalances Sustainable? By Luiz de Mello and Pier Carlo Padoan (also published in the Review of Economics and Institutions, Vol. 2 (2011), pp.1-32)

794. Is there a Case for Carbon-Based Border Tax Adjustment? By Jean-Marc Burniaux, Jean Chateau and Romain Duval

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793. Promoting Potential Growth: The role of structural reform By Luiz de Mello and Pier Carlo Padoan

792. Catching-up and Inflation in Europe: Balassa-Samuelson, Engel’s law and other culprits By Balázs Égert

791. Do Product Market Regulations in Upstream Sectors Curb Productivity Growth? Panel data evidence for OECD countries by Renaud Bourlès, Gilbert Cette, Jimmy Lopez, Jacques Mairesse & Giuseppe Nicoletti

790. Preparing for Euro Adoption in Poland By Rafal Kierzenkowski

789. Gauging the Impact of Higher Capital and Oil Costs on Potential Output By Boris Cournède

788. The German Banking System: Lessons from the Financial Crisis by Felix Hüfner

787. Measuring Competition in Slovenian Industries – estimation of mark-ups by Margit Molnar

786. Enhancing Financial Stability Through Better Regulation in Hungary by Margit Molnar

785. Chile: Boosting Productivity Growth by Strengthening Competition, Entrepreneurship and Innovation by Cyrille Schwellnus

784. Chile: Climbing on Giants’ Shoulders: better schools for all Chilean children by Nicola Brandt

783. Israel: Monetary and Fiscal Policy by Charlotte Moeser

782. Policy Options for Reducing Poverty and Raising Employment Rates in Israel by Philip Hemmings

781. Israeli Education Policy: How to move ahead in reform by Philip Hemmings

780. Germany’s Growth Potential, Structural Reforms and Global Imbalances by Isabell Koske and Andreas Wörgötter

779. European Energy Policy and the Transition to a Low–Carbon Economy by Jeremy Lawson

778. Making the Luxembourg Labour Market Work Better by Jeremy Lawson

777. Coping with the Job Crisis and Preparing for Ageing: The Case of Finland by Henrik Braconier

43

776. The Political Economy of Fiscal Consolidation by Robert Price

775. Structural and Cyclical Factors behind Current-Account Balances by Calista Cheung, Davide Furceri and Elena Rusticelli

774. A Framework for Assessing Green Growth Policies by Alain de Serres, Fabrice Murtin and Giusepppe Nicoletti

773. Modeling Institutions, Start-ups and Productivity during Transition by Zuzana Brixiova and Balázs Égert

772. Can Emerging Asset Price Bubbles be Detected? by Jesús Crespo Cuaresma

771. The nature of financial and real business cycles by Balázs Égert

770. The Effects of Fiscal Policy on Output: A DSGE analysis by Davide Furceri and Annabelle Mourougane

769. Health Care Systems: efficiency and institutions by Isabelle Joumard, Christophe André and Chantal Nicq

768 The OECD’s New Global Model by Karine Hervé, Nigel Pain, Pete Richardson, Franck Sédillot and Pierre-Olivier Beffy

767 Assessing the Impact of the Financial Crisis on Structural Unemployment in OECD Countries Stéphanie Guichard and Elena Rusticelli

766 After the Crisis - Bringing German Public Finances Back to a Sustainable Path by Isabell Koske

765 Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Stabilisation Policies By Klaus Adam

764 Asset Prices and Real Economic Activity By E. Philip Davis

763 Fiscal Policy Reaction to the Cycle in the OECD: Pro- or counter-cyclical? By Balázs Égert

762 New Evidence on the Private Saving Offset and Ricardian Equivalence By Oliver Röhn

761 Monetary Policy Reaction Functions in the OECD By Douglas Sutherland

760 Counter-cyclical Economic Policy by Douglas Sutherland, Peter Hoeller, Balázs Égert and Oliver Roehn

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759 Exports and Property Prices in France: are they connected? by Balázs Égert and Rafał Kierzenkowski

758 Further Advancing Pro-growth Tax and Benefit Reform in the Czech Republic by Zdeněk Hrdlička, Margaret Morgan, David Prušvic, William Tompson and Laura Vartia.

757 Advancing Structural Reforms in OECD Countries: Lessons from twenty case studies by William Tompson and Thai-Thanh Dang

756 Labour markets and the crisis

755 Long-term growth and policy challenges in the large emerging economies by Paul Conway, Sean Dougherty and Artur Radziwill

754 Explaining Household Saving Rates in G7 Countries: implications for Germany Felix Hüfner and Isabell Koske

753 Monetary Policy Responses to the Crisis and Exit Strategies Makoto Minegishi and Boris Cournède

752 Sub-central Governments and the Economic Crisis: Impact and policy responses Hansjörg Blöchliger, Claire Charbit, José Maria Pinero Campos and Camila Vammalle

751 Improving China's Health Care System Richard Herd, Yu-Wei Hu and Vincent Koen

750 Providing Greater Old-Age Security in China Richard Herd, Yu-Wei Hu and Vincent Koen

749 China's Labour Market in Transition: job creation, migration and regulation By Richard Herd, Vincent Koen and Anders Reutersward

748 A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China? By Richard Herd

747 China's Financial Sector Reforms By Richard Herd, Charles Pigott and Sam Hill

746 A Bird's Eye View of OECD Housing Markets By Christophe Andre

745 The Automobile Industry in and Beyond the Crisis by David Haugh, Annabelle Mourougane and Olivier Chatal 2009

744 Towards a flexible exchange rate policy in Russia by Roland Beck and Geoff Barnard

743 Fiscal federalism in Belgium: Main challenges and considerations for reform by Willi Leibfritz

742 Product Market Regulation in Russia

45 by Paul Conway, Tatiana Lysenko and Geoff Barnard

741 HowH to reform the Belgian tax system to enhance economic growth by Jens Høj

740 Improving the policy framework in Japan to address climate change By Randall S. Jones and Byungseo Yoo

739 Health-care reform in Japan: controlling costs, improving quality and ensuring equity By Randall S. Jones

738 Financial stability: overcoming the crisis and improving the efficiency of the banking sector in Japan By Randall S. Jones and Masahiko Tsutsumi

737 Recent Oil Price Movements– Forces and Policy Issues By Eckhard Wurzel, Luke Willard and Patrice Ollivaud

736 Promoting competition to strengthen economic growth in Belgium By Tomasz Koźluk

735 Prudential regulation and competition in financial markets By Rüdiger Ahrend, Jens Arnold and Fabrice Murtin

734 Keeping Slovenian public finances on a sustainable path By Pierre Beynet and Willi Leibfritz

733 Pedal to the metal: Structural reforms to boost long-term growth in Mexico and spur recovery from the crisis By David Haugh and Agustin Redonda

732 Achieving higher performance: Enhancing spending efficiency in health and By Cyrille Schwellnus

731 Russia’sH long and winding road to a more efficient and resilient banking sector By Geoff Barnard

730 How do institutions affect structural unemployment in times of crises?

By0B Davide Furceri & Annabelle Mourougane

729 Understanding the world trade collapse By Calista Cheung and Stéphanie Guichard

728 Estonia and euro adoption: Small country challenges of joining EMU By Zuzana Brixiova, Margaret H. Morgan and Andreas Wörgötter

727 Towards better schools and more equal opportunities for learning in Italy By Romina Boarini

726 Iceland: Challenging times for monetary and fiscal policies By Andrea De Michelis

46

725 Iceland: The financial and economic crisis By David Carey

724 The role of transparency in the conduct of monetary policy By Makoto Minegisi et Boris Cournède

723 Raising education outcomes in Greece By Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou

722 Improving the performance of the public health care system in Greece By Charalampos Economou and Claude Giorno

721 Is there a case for price-level targeting? H By Boris Cournède and Diego Moccero

720 The challenge of restoring French competitivenessH By Rafal Kierzenkowski

719 Improving the functioning of the Slovenian labour marketH By Isabell Koske

718 What drives sovereign risk premiums? An analysis of recent evidence from the Euro AreaH By David Haugh, Patrice Ollivaud, and David Turner

717 The English : an economic health checkH By Peter Smith and Maria Goddard

716 Financial stability in the United Kingdom: Banking on prudenceH By Philip Davis

715 Economic growth and the role of taxation- Disaggregate dataH By Gareth D. Myles, University of Exeter and Institute for Fiscal Studies

714 Economic growth and the role of taxation – Aggregate dataH By Gareth D. Myles, University of Exeter and Institute for Fiscal Studies

713 Economic growth and the role of taxation – TheoryH By Gareth D. Myles, University of Exeter and Institute for Fiscal Studies

712 The effectiveness of education and health spending among Brazilian municipalities By Luiz de Mello and Mauro Pisu

711 The bank lending channel of monetary transmission in Brazil: A VECM approachH By Luiz de Mello and Mauro Pisu (published in Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 50 (2010), pp. 50-60)

710 How does decentralised minimum setting affect unemployment and informality?

The case of Indonesia H By Margherita Comola and Luiz de Mello (forthcoming in Review of Income and Wealth)

709 Intergenerational social mobility in European OECD countriesH By Orsetta Causa, Sophie Dantan and Åsa Johansson

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708 Equity in student achievement across OECD countries: an investigation of the role of policies H By Orsetta Causa and Catherine Chapuis

707 Intergenerational social mobility H By Orsetta Causa and Åsa Johansson

706 Taxes or grants: what revenue source for sub-central governments?H By Hansjörg Blöchliger and Oliver Petzold

705 The spending power of sub-central governments: A pilot study By Steffen Bach, Hansjörg Blöchliger and Dominik Wallau

704 Price and volume elasticities of Brazilian foreign trade: A function approachH By Luiz de Mello and Mauro Pisu

703 Current account sustainability in Brazil: A non linear approach By Luiz de Mello and Matteo Mogliani

702 The incentives to participate in and the stability of international climate coalitions: a game-theoretic approach using the WITCH Model By Valentina Bosetti, , Enrica De Cian, Romain Duval, Emanuele Massetti and Massimo Tavoni

701 The economics of climate change mitigation: how to build the necessary global action in a cost-effective manner By Jean-Marc Burniaux, Jean Chateau, Rob Dellink, Romain Duval and Stéphanie Jamet

700 Capital inflows, household debt and the boom bust cycle in Estonia by Zuzana Brixiova, Laura Vartia and Andreas Wörgötter

699 The effect of financial crises on potential output: new empirical evidence from OECD countries By Davide Furceri and Annabelle Mourougane

698 Employment - productivity trade-off and labour composition By Hervé Boulhol and Laure Turner

697 Labour market flexibility in Estonia: what more can be done? By Zuzana Brixiova

696 Structural policies to overcome geographic barriers and create prosperity in New Zealand By Yvan Guillemette

695 Ten years of product market reform in OECD countries – insights from a revised PMR indicator By Anita Wölfl, Isabelle Wanner, Tomasz Kozluk and Giuseppe Nicoletti

694 Structural reforms and the benefits of the enlarged EU internal market: Much achieved and much to do By Jens Arnold, Peter Höller, Margaret Morgan and Andreas Wörgötter

693 Co-benefits of climate change mitigation policies: literature review and new results

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By Johannes Bollen, Bruno Guay, Stéphanie Jamet and Jan Corfee-Morlot

692 The impact of monetary and commodity fundamentals, macro news and communication on the exchange rate: Evidence from South Africa By Balázs Égert

691 Assessing the impacts of climate change: a literature review By Stéphanie Jamet and Jan Corfee-Morlot

690 The determinants of employment and earnings in Indonesia: A multinomial selection approach By Margherita Comola and Luiz de Mello

689 Inflation responses to recent shocks: do G7 countries behave differently? By Lukas Vogel, Elena Rusticelli, Pete Richardson, Stéphanie Guichard and Christian Gianella

688 Infrastructure investment in network industries: the role of incentive regulation and regulatory independence By Balázs Égert

687 Government consumption volatility and the size of nations By Davide Furceri and Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro

686 Infrastructure investment: links to growth and the role of public policies By Douglas Sutherland, Sonia Araujo, Balázs Égert and Tomasz Koźluk

685 Infrastructure and growth: empirical evidence By Balázs Égert and Tomasz Kozluk and Douglas Sutherland

684 The effects of population structure on employment and productivity By Hervé Boulhol

683 The Macroeconomic Consequences of Banking Crises in OECD Countries By David Haugh, Patrice Ollivaud and David Turner

682 AdjustingH housing policies in Slovakia in light of euro adoption By Felix Hüfner

681 Achieving fiscal flexibility and safeguarding sustainability - The case of Slovakia By Isabell Koske

680 RaisingH the flexibility of the Slovak economy during the catch-up phase H By Isabell Koske

679 Do Latin American central bankers behave non linearly? The experiences of Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico By Luiz de Mello, Diego Moccero and Matteo Mogliani

678 Enhancing educational performance in Australia By Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou

677 Quantifying the effect of financial conditions in the euro area, Japan, United Kingdom andH United States 49

By Stéphanie Guichard, David Haugh and David Turner

676 Taking stock of existing structural policy and outcome indicators By Davide Furceri and Annabelle Mourougane

675 Stabilization Effects of Social Spending: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries By Davide Furceri

674 Fiscal Convergence, Business Cycle Volatility and Growth By Davide Furceri

673 Boosting productivity in Korea’s service sector By Randall S. Jones

672 SustainingH growth in Korea by reforming the labour market and improving the education system By Randall S. Jones and Masahiko Tsutsumi

671 Reforming the tax system in Korea to promote economic growth and cope with rapid population ageing By Randall S. Jones

670 Financial market stability in the European Union: Enhancing regulation and supervision By Jeremy Lawson, Sebastian Barnes and Marte Sollie

669 Overcoming the Financial Crisis in the United States By Andrea De Michelis

668 Financial crises: past lessons and policy implications By Davide Furceri and Annabelle Mourougane

667 Reforms to open sheltered sectors to competition in Switzerland By Andrés Fuentes

666 Raising education outcomes in Spain By Andrés Fuentes

665 Health Care Reform in the United States By David Carey, Bradley Herring and Patrick Lenain

664 The role of R&D and technology diffusion in climate change mitigation: new perspectives using the WITCH Model

By Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, RomainH Duval,H Alessandra Sgobbi and Massimo Tavoni

663 Long-run GDP growth framework and scenarios for the world economy

By RomainH Duval H and Christine de la Maisonneuve

662 Realising South Africa’s employment potential By Geoff Barnard

661 Making the most of Norwegian schools By Romina Boarini

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660 Can the financial sector continue to be the main growth engine in Luxembourg?

LeH secteur financier peut-il rester le principal moteur de la croissance au Luxembourg ? By Arnaud Bourgain, Patrice Pieretti and Jens Høj

2008

659: Fiscal policy responsiveness, persistence, and discretion

By António Afonso, Luca Agnello and DavideH Furceri

658: The economics of climate change mitigation: policies and options for the future

By Jean-Marc Burniaux, Jean Chateau, RomainH Duval H and Stéphanie Jamet

657: Maximising Mexico’s gains from integration in the world economy

By H David Haugh,H Roselyne Jamin and Bruno Rocha

656: How do taxes affect investment and productivity? - An industry-level analysis of OECD countries By Laura Vartia

655: Strategies for countries with favourable fiscal positions

By Robert PriceH, HIsabelle Joumard,H HChristophe André H and Makoto Minegishi

654: Monetary transmission mechanism in Central and Eastern Europe: Surveying the surveyable

By BalázsH Égert andH Ronald MacDonald

653: An Overview of the OECD ENV-Linkages model By Jean-Marc Burniaux and Jean Chateau

652: Reforming the labour market in Japan to cope with increasing dualism and population ageing By Randall S. Jones

651: Enhancing the productivity of the service sector in Japan by Randall S. Jones and Taesik Yoon

650: Reforming the tax system in Japan to promote fiscal sustainability and economic growth by Randall S. Jones and Masahiko Tsutsumi

649: What Drives the NAIRU? Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries By Christian Gianella, Isabell Koske, Elena Rusticelli and Olivier Chatal

648: Short-term distributional effects of structural reforms: selected simulations in a DGSE framework

By AnnabelleH Mourougane H and Lukas Vogel

647: Speed of adjustment to selected labour market and tax reforms

By AnnabelleH Mourougane H and Lukas Vogel

646: The challenges of monetary policy in Turkey By Olcay Çulha, Ali Çulha and Rauf Gönenç

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645: Improving cost effectiveness in the health care sector in Iceland By Hannes Suppanz

644: Understanding Russian regions' economic performance during periods of decline and growth – an extreme bound analysis approach

By RudigerH Ahrend

643: Do tax structures affect aggregate economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of OECD countries

By JensH Arnold

642: Accounting for one-off operations when assessing underlying fiscal positions

By HIsabelle Joumard,H Makoto Minegishi, ChristopheH AndréH, Chantal Nicq and Robert Price

641: Do corporate taxes reduce productivity and investment at the firm level? Cross-country evidence from the Amadeus dataset

By Cyrille Schwellnus and JensH Arnold

640: The challenge of rapidly improving transport infrastructure in Poland By Rafał Kierzenkowski

639: Bridging the housing gap in Poland By Rafał Kierzenkowski

638: Improving the business and investment climate in Indonesia By Diego Moccero

637: Indonesia: Growth performance and policy challenges

By LuizH de Mello

636:A taxonomy of instruments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and their interactions

By RomainH Duval

635: Quantifying the effect of financial conditions on US activity

By StéphanieH Guichard H and David Turner

634: Have long-term financial trends changed the transmission of monetary policy?

By BorisH Cournède,H RudigerH Ahrend,H and Robert Price

633: Raising education achievement and breaking the cycle of inequality in the United Kingdom By Anne-Marie Brook

632: The euro changeover in the Slovak Republic: implications for inflation and interest rates by FelixH Hüfner H and HIsabell Koske

631: Tax reform for efficiency and fairness in Canada by Alexandra Bibbee

630: Reforming the Polish tax system to improve its efficiency

By AlainH de Serres

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629: Modernising Canada’s agricultural policies

By PeterH Jarrett H and Shuji Kobayakawa

628: Recent trends and structural breaks in US and EU15 labour productivity growth

By Laure Turner and HHervé Boulhol

627: Health status determinants: lifestyle, environment, health care resources and efficiency

By HIsabelle Joumard,H ChristopheH André,H Chantal Nicq and Olivier Chatal

626: Market Mechanisms in Public Service Provision By Hansjörg Blöchliger

625: Improving human capital formation in India

By Sean Dougherty H and Richard Herd

624: Labour Regulation and Employment Dynamics at the State Level in India By Sean Dougherty

623: India’s growth pattern and obstacles to higher growth

By Sean Dougherty,H Richard Herd, Thomas Chalaux and Abdul Azeez Erumban

622: Reaping the benefits of stronger competition in network industries in Germany By Nicola Brandt

621: The usefulness of output gaps for policy analysis

By HIsabell Koske H and NigelH Pain

620: Taxation and Economic Growth

By Åsa Johansson, Christopher Heady, JensH Arnold,H Bert Brys and Laura Vartia

619: Coping with labour shortages: How to bring outsiders back to the labour market

By EkkehardH Ernst

618: Achieving sustainability of the energy sector in Canada

By AnnabelleH Mourougane

617: The Dutch tax-benefit system and life-cycle employment: Outcomes and reform options

By EkkehardH Ernst H and Timo Teuber

616: Regulation, allocative efficiency and productivity in OECD countries: industry and firm-level evidence

By JensH Arnold,H HGiuseppe Nicoletti H and Stefano Scarpetta

615: Public social spending in Korea in the context of rapid population ageing by Randall S. Jones

614: Enhancing the globalisation of Korea by Randall S. Jones and Taesik Yoon

613: Reforming housing and regional policies in Korea by Randall S. Jones and Tadashi Yokoyama

612: Moving towards more sustainable healthcare financing in Germany

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611: Improving education outcomes in Germany by David Carey

610: Have developed countries escaped the curse of distance? by HervéH Boulhol,H AlainH de Serres

609: Measures of international transport cost for OECD countries by Stephen S. Golub and Brian Tomasik

608: Encouraging labour force participation in Chile by D. Contreras, L.H de Mello H and E. Puentes

607: Tackling business and labour informality in Chile by D. Contreras, L.H de Mello H and E. Puentes

606: Delivering cost efficient public services in health care, education and housing in Chile by Diego Moccero

605: Managing Chile’s macroeconomy during and after the copper price boom by LuizH de Mello

604: Avoiding the value added tax: Theory and cross country evidence by LuizH de Mello.H Published in Public Finance Review, Vol. 37, pp. 27-46, 2009

603: Oil Price Shocks, Rigidities and the Conduct of Monetary Policy: Some Lessons from a New Keynesian Perspective by RomainH Duval H and Lukas Vogel

602: The Contribution of to GDP Per Capita

By HervéH Boulhol,H AlainH de Serres H and Margit Molnar

601: Estimating a supply block for Poland H by Rafał Kierzenkowski, Patrice Ollivaud, Franck Sédillot and Philippe Briard

600: Product Market Regulation and economic performance across Indian StatesH by Paul Conway, Richard Herd & Thomas Chalaux 599: Improving Product Market Regulation in India: An International and Cross-State comparison H by Paul Conway and Richard Herd

598: Revenue Buoyancy and its Fiscal Policy Implications H by HIsabelle Joumard H and ChristopheH André

597: Monetary Policy, Market Excesses and Financial Turmoil H by RudigerH Ahrend,H BorisH Cournède H and RobertH Price

596: Explaining differences in hours worked among OECD countries: an empirical analysis H by Orsetta Causa

595: Fiscal policy in India: past reforms and future challengesH by Richard Herd and Willi Leibfritz

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594: The significance of Switzerland’s enormous current account surplus H by PeterH Jarrett H and Céline Letremy 593: Interdependencies between monetary policy and foreigh-exchange intervention under inflation targeting: The case of Brazil and the Czech Republic H by Jean-Yves Gnabo, HLuiz de Mello H and Diego Moccero (published in International Finance, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2010), pp. 195-221)

2007

592: Solow or Lucas? Testing growth models using panel data from OECD countriesH by JensH Arnold,H Andrea Bassanini and Stefano Scarpetta

591: The private internal rates of return to tertiary education: new estimates for 21 OECD countriesH by Romina Boarini and Hubert Strauss

590: Making federalism work in Italy H by Alexandra Bibbee

589: The wage premium on tertiary education: new estimates for 21 OECD countriesH by Hubert Strauss and Christine de la Maisonneuve

588: Enhancing the benefits of financial liberalisation in Belgium H by Stefan Ide, Jens Høj and Patrick Lenain

587: Improving incentives in tertiary education in Belgium H by Jens Høj

586: Globalisation and the European Union: Which countries are best placed to cope?H by David Rae & Marte Sollie

585: Primary and secondary education in the United States H by Peter Tulip and Gregory Wurzburg

584: Financing higher education in the United States by Peter Tulip

583: Corporate lending: A review of recent trendsH by ChristopheH AndréH, StéphanieH Guichard,H Mike Kennedy and David Turner

582: The costs of delaying fiscal consolidation: a case study for GreeceH by VassilikiH Koutsogeorgopoulou H & David Turner

581: Local government finances: The link between intergovernmental transfers and net worthH by LuizH de Mello.H Published in G.D. Ingram and Y.H. Hong (Eds.), Fiscal and Land Policies (Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute), 2008

580: Boosting Austria's Innovation PerformanceH by Willi Leibfritz and Jürgen Janger

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579: Improving employment prospects in the Slovak Republic: building on past reformsH by Andrés Fuentes

578: Improving education outcomes in the Slovak Republic H by David Carey

577: How regulatory reforms in Sweden have boosted productivity H by Espen Erlandsen and Jens Lundsgaard

576: The Policy Determinants of Investment in Tertiary Education H by Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Romina Boarini, Hubert Strauss,Christine de la Maisonneuve and Clarice Saadi

575: Product Market Competition in the OECD Countries: Taking Stock and Moving ForwardH by Jens Høj, Miguel Jimenez, Maria Maher, Giuseppe Nicoletti, and Michael Wise

574: Too Little Destruction, Too Little Creation: A Schumpeterian Diagnosis of Barriers to

Sustained Growth in Ukraine H by ChristianH Gianella H and WilliamH Tompson

573: How do the OECD growth projections for the G7 economies perform? A post-mortemH by Lukas Vogel

572: Austria’s deepening economic integration with Central and Eastern EuropeH by Rina Bhattacharya

571: Meeting the challenges of decentralisation in FranceH by StéphanieH Jamet

570: Enhancing incentives to improve performance in the education system in FranceH by Paul O'Brien

569: Combating poverty and social exclusion in FranceH by StéphanieH Jamet

568: and Policy Indicators for the OECD countries H by Jens Høj

567: Structural policies and economic resilience to shocksH by RomainH Duval,H Jørgen Elmeskov and Lukas Vogel

566: Family policy in Hungary: how to improve the reconciliation between work and family? H by Philip Hemmings

565: Encouraging sub-national government efficiency in Hungary H by Alessandro Goglio

564: Integration of immigrants in OECD countries: do policies matter?H by Orsetta Causa and Sébastien Jean

563: The unemployment impact of immigration in OECD countriesH by Sébastien Jean and Miguel Jiménez

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562: Migration in OECD countries: labour market impact and integration issuesH by Sébastien Jean, Orsetta Causa, Miguel Jimenez and Isabelle Wanner

561: The internationalisation of production, international outsourcing and employment in the

OECDH by Margit Molnar, NigelH Pain H and Daria Taglioni

560: Why has Swedish inflation been persistently low?H by FelixH Hüfner

559: The Swedish housing market – better allocation via less regulation H by FelixH Hüfner H and Jens Lundsgaard

558: Linkages between performance and institutions in the primary and secondary education sectorH by DouglasH Sutherland H and RobertH Price

557: Toward a more efficient taxation system in New Zealand H by AnnabelleH Mourougane

556: Income inequality, poverty and social spending in Japan H by Randall S. Jones

555. HImproving the efficiency of health care spending: selected evidence on hospital performanceH by Espen Erlandsen

554. Cross-country analysis of efficiency in OECD health care sectors: options for research H by Unto Häkkinen and HIsabelle Joumard

553. What promotes fiscal consolidation: OECD country experiencesH by StéphanieH Guichard,H Mike Kennedy, Eckhard Wurzel and ChristopheH André

552. Globalisation and the Macroeconomic Policy Environment H by Karine Hervé, HIsabell Koske,H NigelH Pain H and Franck Sédillot. May 2007

551. Why has core inflation remained so muted in the face of the oil shock?H by Paul van den Noord and ChristopheH André.H April 2007

550. Housing markets and adjustments in monetary union H by PeterH Hoeller H and David Rae. April 2007

549. Financial markets in Iceland H by Peter Tulip. April 2007

548. The political economy of delaying fiscal consolidation H

BorisH Cournède.H March 2007

547. The impact on growth of higher efficiency of public spending on schools H Frédéric Gonand. March 2007

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546. Performance indicators for public spending efficiency in primary and secondary education H

DouglasH Sutherland,H RobertH Price,H HIsabelle Joumard H and Chantal Nicq. February 2007

545. Monetary policy and macroeconomic stability in Latin America: The cases of Brazil,

Chile, Colombia and Mexico H Luiz de Mello and Diego Moccero. February 2007

544. The Brazilian "tax war": The case of value-added tax competition among the statesH Luiz de Mello. February 2007. Published in Public Finance Review, Vol. 36, pp. 169-193, 2007.

543. Public spending efficiency: institutional indicators in primary and secondary H

Frédéric Gonand, HIsabelle Joumard H and RobertH Price.H February 2007

542. Enhancing Turkey's growth prospects by improving formal sector business conditions H Rauf Gönenç, Willi Leibfritz and Gökhan Yilmaz. January 2007

541. Fiscal relations across levels of government in Australia H Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou. January 2007

540. Russian manufacturing and the threat of 'Dutch disease'. A comparison of competitiveness developments in Russia and Ukrainian industry H

RudigerH Ahrend,H Donato De Rosa and WilliamH Tompson.H January 2007

539. Stimulating innovation in Russia: The role of instititutions and policies H

ChristianH Gianella H and William Tompson.H January 2007

538. Healthcare reform in Russia: Problems and prospectsH

WilliamH Tompson.H January 2007

537. A golden rule for Russia? How a rule-based fiscal policy can allow a smooth adjustment to the new terms of tradeH

ChristianH Gianella.H January 2007

536. From "clientelism" to a "client-centred orientation"? The challenge of public administration reform in Russia H

WilliamH Tompson.H January 2007

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2006

535. Has the rise in debt made households more vulnerable?H

Nathalie Girouard, Mike Kennedy and ChristopheH André.H December 2006

534. Social security reform in Brazil: Achievements and remaining challengesH Fabio Giambiagi and Luiz de Mello. December 2006

533. Improving labour utilisation in Brazil H Luiz de Mello, Naércio Menezes Filho and Luiz G. Scorzafave. December 2006

532. Boosting innovation performance in Brazil H Carlos H. de Brito Cruz and Luiz de Mello. December 2006

531. Consolidating macroeconomic adjustment in Brazil H Luiz de Mello and Diego Moccero. December 2006

530. Product market regulation in the non-manufacturing sectors of OECD countries: measurement and highlights H Paul Conway and Giuseppe Nicoletti. December 2006

529. The Turkish pension system: further reforms to help solve the informality problem H Anne Marie Brook and Edward Whitehouse. December 2006

528. Policies to improve Turkey's resilience to financial market shocksH Anne-Marie Brook. December 2006

527. Upgrading Japan's innovation system to sustain economic growthH Randall S. Jones and Tadashi Yokoyama. December 2006

526. Strengthening the integration of Japan in the world economy to benefit more fully from globalisation H Randall S. Jones and Taesik Yoon. December 2006

525. OECD's FDI regulatory restrictiveness index: Revision and extension to more economies H Takeshi Koyama and Stephen Golub. December 2006

524. Globalisation and inflation in the OECD economiesH

NigelH Pain,H HIsabell Koske H and Marte Sollie. November 2006

523. Identifying determinants of Germany's international price competitiveness - A structural

VAR approach H Martin Meurers. November 2006

522. Short-term pain for long-term gain: The impact of structural reform on fiscal outcomes in EMU H

Paul van den Noord and BorisH CournèdeH. November 2006

521. Interactions between monetary and fiscal policy: How monetary conditions affect fiscal consolidation H

RudigerH Ahrend,H Pietro Catte and RobertH Price.H November 2006

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520. Restoring fiscal sustainability in the Euro Area: raise taxes or curb spending? H

BorisH Cournède H and Frédéric Gonand. October 2006

519. Should measures of fiscal stance be adjusted for terms of trade effects?H David Turner. October 2006

518. Monetary policy and inflation expectations in Latin America: Long run effects and volatility spilloversH Luiz de Mello and Diego Moccero. October 2006. Published in Journal of , Credit and Banking, Vol. 41 (2009)

517. Social safety nets and H

Paul van den Noord, Nathalie Girouard and ChristopheH AndréH. October 2006

516. Adapting the Icelandic education system to a changing environment H Hannes Suppanz. September 2006

515. Forecasting monthly GDP for CanadaH

AnnabelleH Mourougane.H September 2006

514. Finland's housing market: reducing risks and improving policies H Laura Vartia. September 2006

513. The Danish housing market: less subsidy and more flexibility H

Espen Erlandsen, Jens Lundsgaard and FH elix Hüfner.H September 2006

512. Labour market reform in Germany: How to improve effectivenessH Eckhard Wurzel. September 2006

511. Removing obstacles to employment for women in Ireland H

BorisH Cournède.H September 2006

510. Assessing Russia's non-fuel trade elasticities: Does the Russian economy react

"normally" to exchange rate movements?H

ChristianH Gianella H and Corinne Chanteloup. September 2006

509. Regulation, competition and productivity convergenceH Paul Conway, Donato De Rosa, Giuseppe Nicoletti and Faye Steiner. September 2006 This work has also been published in OECD Economic Studies No. 43/1 2007 (forthcoming)

508. Improving education achievement and attainment in Luxembourg to compete in the labour marketH David Carey and Ekkehard Ernst. September 2006

507. Raising economic performance by fostering product market competition in GermanyH Andrés Fuentes, Eckhard Wurzel and Andreas Reindl. August 2006

506. Regulation of financial systems and economic growthH

AlainH de SerresH, Shuji Kobayakawa, Torsten Sløk and Laura Vartia. August 2006

505. Enhancing Portugal's human capital H

StéphanieH Guichard H and Bénédicte Larre. August 2006

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504. Improving labour market performance in FranceH

StéphanieH Jamet.H July 2006

503. Wage setting in Finland: increasing flexibility in centralised wage agreementsH Åsa Johansson. July 2006

502. Taxation, business environment and FDI location in OECD countries H Dana Hajkova, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Laura Vartia and Kwang-Yeol Yoo. July 2006 This work has also been published in OECD Economic Studies No. 43/1 2007 (forthcoming)

501. The political economy of structural reform: Empirical evidence from OECD countriesH Jens Høj, Vincenzo Galasso, Giuseppe Nicoletti and Thai-Thanh Dang. July 2006 This work has also been published in OECD Economic Studies No. 43/1 2007 (forthcoming)

500. Labour market performance, income inequality and poverty in OECD countries and

AnnexesH Jean-Marc Burniaux, Flavio Padrini and Nicola Brandt. July 2006

499. Improving public-spending efficiency in Czech regions and municipalities H Philip Hemmings. July 2006

498. Policies to promote innovation in the Czech Republic H Alessandro Goglio. July 2006

497. Getting education right for long-term growth in the Czech Republic H Alessandro Goglio. July 2006

496. Assessing the 2005 Czech proposals for pension reformH Philip Hemmings and Edward Whitehouse. July 2006

495. Poland's education and training: Boosting and adapting human capital H Paul O'Brien and Wojciech Paczynski. June 2006

494. The rates and revenue of bank transaction taxesH Jorge Baca-Campolonico, Luiz de Mello and Andrei Kirilenko. June 2006

493. Nothing ventured, nothing gained: The long-run fiscal reward of structural reformsH

PeterH Hoeller H and ClaudeH Giorno.H June 2006

492. Ireland's housing boom: What has driven it and have prices overshot?H David Rae and Paul van den Noord. June 2006

491. Boosting competition in Ireland David Rae, Line Vogt and Michael Wise. June 2006

490. Factors behind low long-term interest rates H

RudigerH Ahrend,H Pietro Catte and RobertH Price.H June 2006

489. The Fiscal challenge in Portugal H

StéphanieH Guichard H and Willi Leibfritz. June 2006

488. Are house prices nearing a peak? A probit analysis for 17 OECD countries H Paul van den Noord. June 2006

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487. Maintaining Switzerland's top innovation capacity H Florence Jaumotte. June 2006

486. Employment patterns in OECD countries: reassessing the role of policies and institutions H

Andrea Bassanini and RomainH Duval.H June 2006

485. Brazil's fiscal stance during 1995-2005: The effect of indebtedness on fiscal policy over the business cycleH Luiz de Mello and Diego Moccero. May 2006

484. Realising the oil supply potential of the CIS: the impact of institutions and policiesH

RudigerH Ahrend H and WilliamH Tompson.H May 2006

483. Summary of a workshop on global convergence scenarios: structural and policy issuesH Nick Vanston (Rapporteur). May 2006

482. New OECD methods for supply-side and medium-term assessment: a capital services approach H

Pierre-Olivier Beffy, Patrice Ollivaud, PeteH Richardson H and Frank Sédillot. July 2006

481. Balancing health care quality and cost containment: the case of NorwayH Alexandra Bibbee and Flavio Padrini. February 2006

480. The ageing challenge in Norway: ensuring a sustainable pension and welfare systemH Benoît Bellone and Alexandra Bibbee. February 2006

479: Strengthening innovation in the Netherlands: making better use of knowledge creation in innovation activities H David Carey, Ekkehard Ernst, Rebecca Oyomopito and Jelte Theisens. February 2006

478: How to sustain growth in a resource based economy? The main concepts and their application to the Russian caseH

RudigerH Ahrend.H February 2006

477: Projecting OECD health and long-term care expenditures: What are the main drivers?H February 2006. This work has also been published as Oliveira Martins and de la Maisonneuve, "The Drivers of Public Expenditure on Health and Long-Term Care: an Integrated Approach", OECD Economic Studies, no. 42 2006

476: Alternative measures of well-being H Romina Boarini, Åsa Johansson and Marco Mira D'Ercole. February 2006

475: Recent house price developments: the role of fundamentals H

Nathalie Girouard, Mike Kennedy, Paul van den Noord and HChristophe André.H January 2006

474: Reforming federal fiscal relations in Austria H Andrés Fuentes, Eckhard Wurzel and Andreas Wörgötter. January 2006

473: Product market competition and economic performance in FranceH Jens Høj and Michael Wise. January 2006

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2005

472: Product market reforms and employment in OECD countriesH Giuseppe Nicoletti and Stefano Scarpetta. December 2005

471: Fast-falling barriers and growing concentration: the emergence of a private economy in China

Sean DoughertyH and Richard Herd. December 2005. This work has also been published in the China Economic Review, Vol. 18/3, 2007.

470: Sustaining high growth through innovation: reforming the R&D and education systems in Korea H Yongchun Baek and Randall S. Jones. December 2005

469: The labour market in Korea: Enhancing flexibility and raising participation H Randall S. Jones. December 2005

468: Getting the most out of public-sector decentralisation in KoreaH Randall S. Jones and Tadashi Yokoyama. December 2005

467: Coping with the inevitable adjustment in the US current accountH

PeterH Jarrett.H December 2005

466: Is there a case for sophisticated balanced-budget rulesH Antonio Fatás. December 2005

465: Fiscal rules for sub-central governments: design and impact H

DouglasH Sutherland,H RobertH Price H and HIsabelle Joumard.H December 2005

464: Assessing the robustness of demographic projections in OECD countries H Frédéric Gonand. December 2005

463: The benefits of liberalising product markets and reducing barriers to international trade and investment in the OECDH December 2005

462: Fiscal relations across levels of government in the United StatesH Thomas Laubach. November 2005

461: Assessing the value of indicators of underlying inflation for monetary policy H Pietro Catte and Torsten Sløk. November 2005

460: Regulation and economic performance: product market reforms and productivity in the

OECDH Giuseppe Nicoletti and Stefano Scarpetta. November 2005 This work has also been published in Institutions, Development, and Economic Growth, (T.S. Eicher and C. García-Peñalosa eds.), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006.

459: Innovation in the Business SectorH

Florence Jaumotte and HNigel Pain.H December 2005

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458: From innovation development to implementation: evidence from the Community

Innovation SurveyH

Florence Jaumotte and HNigel Pain.H December 2005

457: From ideas to development: the determination of R&D and patenting H

Florence Jaumotte and HNigel Pain.H December 2005

456: An overview of public policies to support innovation H

Florence Jaumotte and HNigel Pain.H December 2005

455: Strengthening regulation in Chile: the case of network industries H Alexander Galetovic and Luiz de Mello. November 2005

454: Fostering innovation in Chile H José-Miguel Benavente, Luiz de Mello and Nanno Mulder. November 2005

453: Getting the most out of public sector decentralisation in MexicoH

IsabelleH Joumard.H October 2005

452: Raising Greece's potential output growthH Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou and Helmut Ziegelschmidt. October 2005

451: Product market competition and economic performance in Australia H Helmut Ziegelschmidt, Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou, Simen Bjornerud and Michael Wise. October 2005

450: House prices and inflation in the Euro Area H

BorisH Cournède.H October 2005

449: The EU's single market: at your service?H Line Vogt. October 2005

448: Slovakia's introduction of a flat tax as part of wider economic reforms H Anne-Marie Brook and Willi Leibfritz. September 2005

447: The education challenge in Mexico: delivering good quality education to all H

StéphanieH Guichard.H September 2005

446: In search of efficiency: improving health care in Hungary H Alessandro Goglio. September 2005

445: Hungarian innovation policy: what's the best way forward?H Philip Hemmings. September 2005

444: The challenges of EMU accession faced by catching-up countries: A Slovak Republic case studyH Anne-Marie Brook. September 2005

443: Getting better value for money from Sweden's healthcare systemH David Rae. September 2005

442: How to reduce sickness absences in Sweden: lessons from international experienceH David Rae. September 2005

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441: The labour market impact of rapid ageing of government employees: Some illustrative scenariosH Jens Høj and Sylvie Toly. September 2005

440: The new OECD international trade model H

NigelH Pain,H AnnabelleH Mourougane,H Franck Sédillot and Laurence Le Fouler. August 2005

439: The French tax system: Main characteristics, recent developments and some considerations for reform H Willi Leibfritz and Paul O'Brien. July 2005

438: The effects of EMU on structural reforms in labour and product marketsH

RomainH Duval H and Jørgen Elmeskov. July 2005

437: Product market competition and economic performance in New Zealand H

AnnabelleH Mourougane H and Michael Wise. July 2005

436: Getting the most out of public sector decentralisation in Spain H

IsabelleH Joumard H and ClaudeH Giorno.H July 2005

435: Sources of inflation persistence in the Euro AreaH

BorisH Cournède,H Alexandra Janovskaia and Paul van den Noord. July 2005

434: Measuring cyclically-adjusted budget balances for OECD countriesH

Nathalie Girouard and ChristopheH AndréH. July 2005

433: Product market competition and economic performance in the United Kingdom H Maria Maher and Michael Wise. June 2005

432: The benefits of liberalising product markets and reducing barriers to international trade and investment: the case of the United States and the European Union H June 2005

431: Boosting growth through greater competition in DenmarkH Martin Jorgensen. May 2005

430: Fifteen years of economic reform in Russia: what has been achieved? What remains to be done?H

RudigerH Ahrend H and William Tompson.H May 2005

429: Assessing the OECD Jobs Strategy: Past developments and reforms and AnnexesH

Nicola Brandt, Jean-Marc Burniaux and RomainH Duval.H May 2005

428: Ageing, welfare services and municipalities in Finland H Jens Lundsgaard. May 2005

427: The impact of structural policies on trade-related adjustment and the shift to servicesH Per Mathis Kongsrud and Isabelle Wanner. April 2005

426: Product market competition and economic performance in Iceland H Thomas Laubach and Michael Wise. April 2005

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425: Enhancing Brazil's regulatory framework for network industries: the case of electricity, oil and gas, and water and sanitation H Edmar Almeida and Nanno Mulder. April 2005

424: Education attainment in Brazil: the experience of FUNDEFH Luiz de Mello and Mombert Hoppe. April 2005

423: Estimating a fiscal reaction function: the case of debt sustainability in Brazil H Luiz de Mello. April 2005. Published in , Vol. 40, pp. 271-84, 2007.

422: Product market competition and economic performance in the Netherlands H Maria Maher and Michael Wise. March 2005

421: Product market competition and economic performance in Canada H Maria Maher and Jay Shaffer. March 2005

420: The impact of ageing on demand, factor markets and growthH Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Frédéric Gonand, Pablo Antolin, Christine de la Maisonneuve and Kwang-Yeol Yoo. March 2005

419: Product market regulation in OECD countries: 1998 to 2003H Paul Conway, Véronique Janod, Giuseppe Nicoletti. February 2005

418: Reforming Turkey's public expenditure managementH Rauf Gönenç, Willi Leibfritz and Erdal Yilmaz. February 2005

417: Fiscal gimmickry in Europe: One-off measures and creative accounting H

VincentH Koen H and Paul van den Noord. February 2005. This work has also been published in Wierts, P., S. Deroose, E. Flores and A. Turrini (eds), Fiscal Policy Surveillance in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

416: Getting the most out of public sector decentralisation in Japan H

IsabelleH Joumard H and Tadashi Yokoyama. January 2005

415: Structural policy reforms and external imbalances H Mike Kennedy and Torsten Sløk. January 2005

414: The jobs challenge in Poland: policies to raise employmentH Andrew Burns and Przemyslaw Kowalski. December 2004

2004

413: Product market competition and economic performance in Finland H Jens Høj and Michael Wise. December 2004

412: Oil price developments: drivers, economic consequences and policy responsesH

Anne-Marie Brook, RobertH Price,H DouglasH Sutherland,H Niels Westerlund and ChristopheH André.H December 2004

411: Wealth effects on money demand in EMU: econometric evidenceH , Fanny Mikol and Paul van den Noord. November 2004

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410: Banking reform in Russia: problems and prospectsH

WilliamH Tompson.H November 2004

409: Public expenditure management in FranceH Andrew Burns and Alessandro Goglio. October 2004

408: Russian industrial restructuring: trends in productivity, competitiveness, and comparative advantageH

RudigerH Ahrend.H October 2004

407: Improving the capacity to innovate in Germany H Andrés Fuentes, Eckhard Wurzel and Margaret Morgan. October 2004

406: Tax treatment of private pension savings in OECD countries and the net tax cost per unit of contribution to tax-favoured schemesH

Kwang-Yeol Yoo and AlainH de Serres.H October 2004

405: The reform of health care system in Portugal H

StéphanieH Guichard.H October 2004

404: Accounting for Russia’s post-crisis growthH

RudigerH Ahrend.H September 2004

403: Restructuring Russia’s electricity sector: Towards effective competition or faux liberalisation? H

WilliamH Tompson.H September 2004

402: Russia's gas sector: the endless wait for reform?H

RudigerH Ahrend H and WilliamH Tompson.H September 2004

401: One money, one cycle? Making Monetary Union a smoother ride H

PeterH Hoeller,H ClaudeH GiornoH and Christine de la Maisonneuve. September 2004

400: Modelling cyclical divergence in the euro area: the housing channel H Paul van den Noord. September 2004

399: Product market competition and economic performance in KoreaH Yongchun Baek, Randall Jones and Michael Wise. August 2004

398: Product market competition and economic performance in the United StatesH Hannes Suppanz, Michael Wise and Michael Kiley. July 2004

397: SavingH behaviour and the effectiveness of fiscal policy H

Luiz de Mello, Per Mathis Kongsrud and RobertH Price.H July 2004

396: The impact of exchange rate regimes on real exchange rates in South America, 1990-

2002 H Anne-Laure Baldi and Nanno Mulder. June 2004

395: How market imperfections and trade barriers shape specialisation: South America vs.

OECDH Joaquim Oliveira Martins and Tristan Price. June 2004. This work has also been published in

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394: Housing Markets, wealth and the business cycleH

Pietro Catte, Nathalie Girouard, RobertH Price H and ChristopheH André.H June 2004

393: Long-term budgetary implications of tax-favoured plans H

Pablo Antolin, AlainH de Serres H and Christine de la Maisonneuve. June 2004

392: Enhancing income convergence in after EU accession H Patrick Lenain and Lukasz Rawdanowicz. June 2004

391: Asset price cycles, "one-off" factors and structural budget balance H

Nathalie Girouard and RobertH Price.H June 2004

390: Channels for narrowing the US current account deficit and implications for other economiesH Anne-Marie Brook, Franck Sédillot and Patrice Ollivaud. May 2004

389: Product market competition and economic performance in NorwayH Jens Høj and Michael Wise. May 2004

388: Product market competition and economic performance in SwedenH Deborah Roseveare, Martin Jørgensen and Lennart Goranson. May 2004

387. Product market competition and economic performance in Japan H Jens Høj and Michael Wise. May 2004

386: MigrationH and integration of immigrants in DenmarkH Deborah Rozeveare and Martin Jorgensen. April 2004

385: FactorsH driving risk premia H Torsten Sløk and Mike Kennedy. April 2004

384: Rationalising public expenditure in the Slovak Republic H Rauf Gönenç and Peter Walkenhorst. March 2004

383: Product market competition and economic performance in Switzerland H

ClaudeH Giorno,H Miguel Jimenez and Philippe Gugler. March 2004

382: Differences in resilience between the euro-area and US economiesH Aaron Drew, Mike Kennedy and Torsten Sløk. March 2004

381: ProductH market competition and economic performance in Hungary H Carl Gjersem, Philip Hemmings and Andreas Reindl. March 2004

380: EnhancingH the effectiveness of public spending: experience in OECD countries H

IsabelleH Joumard,H Per Mathis Kongsrud, Young-Sook Nam and RobertH Price.H February 2004

379: Is there a change in the trade-off beween output and inflation at low or stable inflation rates? Some evidence in the case of Japan H

AnnabelleH Mourougane H and Hideyuki Ibaragi. February 2004

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378: Policies bearing on product market competition and growth in EuropeH Carl Gjersem. January 2004

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377: ReformingH the public expenditure system in KoreaH Young-Sook Nam and Randall Jones. December 2003

376: Female labour force participation: past trends and main determinants in OECD countriesH Florence Jaumotte. December 2003

375: Fiscal relations across government levels H

IsabelleH Joumard H and Per Mathis Kongsrud. December 2003

374: Health-care systems: lessons from the reform experienceH Elizabeth Docteur and Howard Oxley. December 2003

373: Non-tariff measures affecting EU exports: Evidence from a complaints-inventoryH Peter Walkenhorst and Barbara Fliess. December 2003

372: The OECD medium-term reference scenario: No. 74H Peter Downes, Aaron Drew and Patrice Ollivaud. December 2003

371: Coping with ageing: a dynamic approach to quantify the impact of alternative policy options on future labour supply in OECD countriesH

Jean-Marc Burniaux, RomainH Duval H and Florence Jaumotte. November 2003

370: The retirement effects of old-age pension systems and other social transfer programmes in OECD countries H

RomainH Duval.H November 2003

369: Policies for an ageing society: recent measures and areas for further reformH

Bernard Casey, Howard Oxley, Edward Whitehouse, Pablo Antolin, RomainH Duval H and Willi Leibfritz November 2003

368: Financial market integration in the euro areaH Carl Gjersem. October 2003

367: Recent and prospective trends in real long-term interest rates: Fiscal policy and other driversH Anne-Marie Brook. September 2003

366: Consolidating Germany's finances: Issues in public sector spending reformH Eckhard Wurzel. September 2003

365: Corporate taxation of Foreign Direct Investment income 1991-2001 H Kwang-Yeol Yoo. August 2003

364: IndicH ator models of real GDP growth in selected OECD countriesH

Franck Sédillot and NigelH Pain.H July 2003

363: Post-crisis changes in banking and corporate landscapes - the case of Thailand H Margit Molnar. June 2003 69

362: Post-crisis changes in banking and corporate landscapes in Dynamic Asia H Margit Molnar. June 2003

361: After the bubble H Patrick Lenain and Sam Paltridge. June 2003

360: Controlling public spending in Iceland H Hannes Suppanz. June 2003

359: Policies and international integration: Influences on trade and foreign direct investment H Giuseppe Nicoletti, Steve Golub, Dana Hajkova, Daniel Mirza and Kwang-Yeol Yoo. June 2003 This work has also been published in OECD Economic Studies No. 36/1 2003

358: Enhancing the effectiveness of public spending in Finland H Philip Hemmings, David Turner and Seija Parviainen. June 2003

357: Measures of restrictions on inward foreign direct investment for OECD countriesH Stephen S. Golub. June 2003

356: Tax incentives and house price volatility in the Euro Area: Theory and evidenceH Paul van den Noord. June 2003

355: Stuctural policies and growth: a non-technical overviewH

AlainH de SerresH. May 2003

354: Tax reform in Belgium H David Carey. May 2003

353: Macroeconomic policy and economic performanceH

Pedro de Lima, AlainH de Serres H and Mike Kennedy. April 2003

352: Regulation and investment H Alberto Alesina, Silvia Ardagna, Giuseppe Nicoletti and Fabio Schiantarelli. March 2003 This work has also been published in Journal of the European Economic Association, 3(4), June 2005.

351: Discretionary fiscal policy and elections: the experience of the early years of EMUH Marco Buti and Paul van den Noord. March 2003

350: The US health system: an assessment and prospective directions for reformH Elizabeth Docteur, Hannes Suppanz and Jaejoon Woo. February 2003

349: The effectiveness of public expenditure in Portugal H Chiara Bronchi. February 2003

348: Comparative analysis of firm demographics and survival: micro-level evidence for the

OECD countriesH Eric Bartelsman, Stefano Scarpetta and Fabiano Schivardi. January 2003

347: Regulation, productivity and growth: OECD evidenceH Giuseppe Nicoletti and Stefano Scarpetta. January 2003 Also available in Spanish: Regulación, productividad y crecimiento: evidencia en la OCDE (Mexican Federal Competition Commission, Gaceta Año 6 num. 16(Mayo - Agosto, 2003)

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346: Public expenditure management in Poland H Andrew Burns and Kwang-Yeol Yoo. December 2002

345: Enhancing the effectiveness of public expenditure in SwedenH Deborah Roseveare. December 2002

344: The decline in private saving rates in the 1990s in OECD countries: How much can be explained by non-wealth determinants? H

AlainH de SerresH and Florian Pelgrin. December 2002

343: Enhancing the effectiveness of public expenditure in NorwayH

IsabelleH Joumard H and Wim Suyker. October 2002

342: ProductivityH and convergence in a panel of OECD industries: Do regulations and institutions matter?

StefanoH Scarpetta and Thierry Tressel. September 2002

341: ManagingH public expenditure - the UK approach H Paul van den Noord. September 2002

340: The Brazilian pension system - Recent reforms and challenges ahead H Marcos Bonturi. August 2002

339: Challenges in the Mexican financial sectorH Marcos Bonturi. August 2002

338: Coping with population ageing in HungaryH Andrew Burns and Jaromir Cekota. August 2002

337: Next steps for public spending in New Zealand: the pursuit of effectivenessH Dave Rae. July 2002

336: Strengthening the management of public spending in Hungary H Jaromir Cekota, Rauf Gönenç and Kwang-Yeol Yoo. July 2002

335: Automatic stabilisers and market flexibility in EMU: is there a trade-off?H Marco Buti, Carlos Martinez-Mongay, Khalid Sekkat and Paul van den Noord. July 2002

334: The economic consequences of terrorismH

Patrick Lenain, Marcos Bonturi and VincentH Koen.H July 2002

333: Investment in human capital through post-compulsory education and training: selected efficiency and equity aspectsH Sveinbjörn Blöndal, Simon Field and Nathalie Girouard. July 2002

332: Enhancing the effectiveness of public spending in Switzerland H

IsabeH lle Joumard H and ClaudeH Giorno.H July 2002

331: CompetitionH and efficiency in publicly funded servicesH Jens Lundsgaard. June 2002

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330: PolicyH pre-commitment and institutional design: a synthetic indicator applied to currency boardH Marie-Thérèse Camilleri Gilson. May 2002

329: The role of policy and institutions for productivity and firm dynamics: Evidence from micro and industry data H Stefano Scarpetta, Philip Hemmings, Thierry Tressel and Jaejoon Woo. April 2002

328: Improving the efficiency and sustainability of public expenditure in the Czech Republic H Andrew Burns and Kwang-Yeol Yoo. April 2002

327: Increases in business investment rates in OECD countries in the 1990s: How much can be explained by fundamentals? H

Florian Pelgrin, Sebastian Schich and AlainH de Serres.H April 2002

326: Sectoral shifts in Europe and the United States: How they affect aggregate labour shares and the properties of wage equations H

AlainH de SerresH, Stefano Scarpetta and Christine de la Maisonneuve. April 2002

325: Coping with population ageing in the Netherlands H David Carey. March 2002

324: Public spending in Italy: policies to enhance its effectivenessH Alexandra Bibbee and Alessandro Goglio. March 2002

323: Overheating in small euro area economies: Should fiscal policy react?H

PeterH Hoeller,H ClaudeH GiornoH and Christine de la Maisonneuve. February 2002

322: EncouragingH environmentally sustainable growth in Austria H Jens Høj and Andreas Wörgötter. February 2002

321: Health care reform in Japan Yutaka Imai. February 2002

320: Enhancing Expenditure Control with a Decentralised Public Sector in DenmarkH Steen Daugaard. February 2002

319: Options for Reforming the Finnish Tax SystemH

IsabelleH Joumard H and Wim Suyker. February 2002

318: Product Market Regulation and Wage Premia in Europe and North America: An Empirical

Investigation H Sébastien Jean and Giuseppe Nicoletti. January 2002 This work has also been published in CEPII Working Paper 2004-12, also published as Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Labour Markets Research Paper, No. 2004-26, September 2004

317: Competition, Innovation and Productivity Growth: A Review of Theory and EvidenceH Sanghoon Ahn. January 2002

316: Labour Market Institutions, Product Market Regulation, and Innovation : Cross Country

EvidenceH Andrea Bassanini and Ekkehard Ernst. January 2002

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315: OngoingH Changes in the Business Cycle - Evidence and CausesH Thomas Dalsgaard, Jorgen Elmeskov and Cyn-Young Park. January 2002

2001

314: Comment encourager une croissance écologiquement durable en France?H Ann Vourc'h and Patrick Lenain. December 2001

313: Increasing Efficiency and Reducing Complexity in the Tax System in the United States

RichardH Herd and Chiara Bronchi. December 2001

312: Product and Labour Markets Interactions in OECD CountriesH Giuseppe Nicoletti, Andrea Bassanini, Ekkehard Ernst, Sébastien Jean, Paulo Santiago and Paul Swaim. December 2001

311: Modelling Import Responsiveness for OECD Manufactures TradeH Mara Meacci and David Turner. October 2001

310: Trade Linkages and the Trade Matrices in the OECD Interlink Model H Laurence Le Fouler, Wim Suyker and Dave Turner. October 2001

309: Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Australia H

Ann Vourc'h and RobertH Price.H October 2001

308: Financial market liberalisation, wealth and consumption H Laurence Boone, Nathalie Girouard and Isabelle Wanner. September 2001

307: The economic integration of Germany's new LänderH Eckhard Wurzel. September 2001

306: Standard shocks in the OECD INTERLINK model H

Thomas Dalsgaard, ChristopheH AndréH and Pete Richardson. September 2001

305: FiscalH implications of ageing: projections of age-related spending H Thai-Thanh Dang, Pablo Antolín and Howard Oxley. September 2001

304: The width of the intra-european economic bordersH

AlainH de SerresH, PeterH Hoeller H and Christine de la Maisonneuve. August 2001

303: Surveillance of tax policies: a synthesis of findings in economic surveysH Paul van den Noord and Christopher Heady. July 2001

302: Reforming the tax system in Portugal H Chiara Bronchi and José C. Gomes-Santos. July 2001

301: Tax systems in European Union countries

IsabelleH Joumard.H June 2001

300: EncouragingH environmentally sustainable growth in Belgium H Paul O'Brien, David Carey, Jens Høj and Andreas Woergoetter. June 2001

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298: Tracking the euro

VincentH Koen,H Laurence Boone, AlainH de Serres H and Nicola Fuchs. June 2001. This work has also been published as L’insoutenable légèreté de l’euro, Economie Internationale, No. 88, 2001.

297: Firm dynamics and productivity growth: a review of micro evidence from OECD countriesH Sanghoon Ahn. June 2001

296: HowH should Norway respond to ageing? H Pablo Antolin and Wim Suyker. May 2001

295: How will ageing affect Finland? H Pablo Antolin , Howard Oxley and Wim Suyker. May 2001

294: Sectoral regulatory reforms in Italy: framework and implications H Alessandro Goglio. May 2001

293: Encouraging environmentally sustainable growth: experience in OECD countriesH Paul O'Brien and Ann Vourc'h. May 2001

292: Increasing simplicity, neutrality and sustainability: a basis for tax reform in Iceland H Richard Herd and Thorsteinn Thorgeirsson. May 2001

291: Options for reforming the tax system in GreeceH Chiara Bronchi. April 2001

290: Encouraging environmentally sustainable growth in Canada H Ann Vourc'h. March 2001

289: Encouraging environmentally sustainable growth in SwedenH Deborah Roseveare. March 2001

288: Public spending in Mexico: how to enhance its effectivenessH Bénédicte Larre and Marcos Bonturi. March 2001

287: Regulation in services: OECD patterns and economic implications H Giuseppe Nicoletti. February 2001 This work has also been published in Innovation and Productivity in Services, 2001, OECD, Paris.

286: A small global forecasting model H David Rae and David Turner. February 2001

285: Managing public expenditure: some emerging policy issues and a framework for analysis H Paul Atkinson and Paul van den Noord. February 2001

284: Trends in immigration and economic consequencesH Jonathan Coppel, Jean-Christophe Dumond and . February 2001

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283: Economic growth: the role of policies and institutions. Panel data evidence from OECD countriesH Andrea Bassanini, Stefano Scarpetta and Philip Hemmings. January 2001

282: Does human capital matter for growth in OECD countries? Andrea Bassanini and Stefano Scarpetta. January 2001

281: The tax system in New Zealand: an appraisal and options for changeH Thomas Dalsgaard. January 2001

280: ContributionsH of financial systems to growth in OECD countriesH Michael Leahy, Sebastian Schich, Gert Wehinger, Florian Pelgrin and Thorsteinn Thorgeirsson. January 2001. Updated 21 March 2001

279: House prices and economic activity H Nathalie Girouard and Sveinbjörn Blöndal. January 2001

278: Encouraging environmentally sustainable growth in the United StatesH Paul O'Brien. January 2001

277: Encouraging environmentally sustainable growth in DenmarkH Paul O'Brien and Jens Høj. January 2001

276: Making growth more environmentally sustainable in GermanyH

Grant Kirkpatrick, Gernot Klepper and RobertH Price.H January 2001

275: Central control of regional budgets: theory with applications to Russia H John M. Litwack. January 2001

2000

274: A post-mortem on Economic Outlook projections H Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou. December 2000

273: Fixed cost, imperfect competition and bias in technology measurement: Japan and the

United StatesH Kiyohiko G. Nishimura and Masato Shirai. December 2000 Working Papers No.272 to 268 below were presented at a Workshop on "The causes of economic growth", at the OECD, 6-7 July 2000

272: Entry, exit, and aggregate productivity growth: micro evidence on Korean manufacturing H Chin-Hee Hahn. December 2000

271: The tax system in Korea: more fairness and less complexity requiredH Thomas Dalsgaard. December 2000

270: A multi-gas assessment of the Protocol H Jean-Marc Burniaux. October 2000

269: TheH changing health system in FranceH Yukata Imai, Stéphane Jacobzone and Patrick Lenain. October 2000

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268: InwardH investment and technical progress in the UK manufacturing sectorH

Florence Hubert and HNigel Pain.H October 2000

267: Aggregate growth: what have we learned from microeconomic evidence?H John Haltiwanger. October 2000

266: Determinants of long-term growth: a Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) approach H Gernot Doppelhofer, Ronald I. Miller and Xavier Sala-i-Martin. October 2000

265: The great reversals: the politics of financial development in the 20th centuryH Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales. October 2000

264: Trade and growth: still disagreement about the relationship H Robert Baldwin. October 2000

263: Growth effects of education and social capital in the OECD countries H Jonathan Temple. October 2000

262: Human capital in growth regressions: how much difference does data quality make?H Angel de la Fuente and Rafael Doménech. October 2000

261: Raising the speed limit: US economic growth in the information ageH Dale W. Jorgenson and Kevin J. Stiroh. October 2000

260: Summary of an informal workshop on the causes of economic growth H Jonathan Temple. October 2000

259: Knowledge, technology and economic growth: recent evidence from OECD countriesH Andrea Bassanini, Stefano Scarpetta and Ignazio Visco. October 2000

258: Average effective tax rates on capital, labour and consumption H David Carey and Harry Tchilinguirian. October 2000

257: The health care system in Poland H Nathalie Girouard and Yutaka Imai. September 2000

256: Public expenditure reform: the health care sector in the United Kingdom H

VincentH Koen.H August 2000

255: Regulatory reform in road freight and retail distribution H Olivier Boylaud. August 2000

254: Regulation, market structure and performance in air passenger transportation H Rauf Gonenc and Giuseppe Nicoletti. August 2000 This work has also been published in OECD Economic Studies, Special issue: Regulatory Reform, n. 32, 2001.

253: Policy interdependence during economic transition: the case of Slovakia 1999-2000 H Joaquim Oliveira Martins and Tristan Price. June 2000

252: E-commerce: impacts and policy challengesH Jonathan Coppel. June 2000

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251: The implementation and the effects of regulatory reform: past experience and current issuesH Rauf Gonenc, Maria Maher and Giuseppe Nicoletti. June 2000 This work has also been published in OECD Economic Studies, Special issue: Regulatory Reform, n. 32, 2001.

250: The concept, policy use and measurement of structural unemployment: estimating a time varying NAIRU across 21 OECD countriesH

PeteH Richardson,H Laurence Boone, ClaudeH Giorno,H Mara Meacci, David Rae and David Turner. June 2000

249: OptionsH for reforming the Spanish tax systemH

IsabelleH Joumard H and Aristomène Varoudakis. June 2000

248: EconomicH growth in the OECD area: recent trends at the aggregate and sectoral level H Stefano Scarpetta, Andrea Bassanini, Dirk Pilat and Paul Schreyer. June 2000

247: Economic effects of the 1999 Turkish earthquakes: an interim report H

Alexandra Bibbee, Rauf Gonenc, Scott Jacobs, Josef Konvitz and RobertH Price.H June 2000

246: PolicyH influences on economic growth in OECD countries: an evaluation of the evidenceH Sanghoon Ahn and Philip Hemmings. June 2000

245: The tax system in the Czech Republic H Chiara Bronchi and Andrew Burns. May 2000

244: TheH tax system in Norway: past reforms and future challenges H Paul van den Noord. May 2000

243: AH changing financial environment and the implications for monetary policy H Paul Mylonas, Sebastian Schich and Gert Wehinger. May 2000

242: Carbon emission leakages - a general equilibrium view H Jean-Marc Burniaux and Joaquim Oliveira Martins. May 2000

241: The healthcare system in HungaryH Eva Orosz and Andrew Burns. April 2000

240: Comparing semi-structural methods to estimate unobserved variables: the HPMV and

Kalman filters approachesH Laurence Boone. April 2000

239: NewH issues in public debt management: governement surpluses in several OECD countries, the common currency in Europe and rapidly rising debt in Japan Paul Mylonas, Sebastian Schich, Thorsteinn Thorgeirsson and Gert Wehinger. April 2000

238: Regulation,H industry structure and performance in the electricity supply industry H Faye Steiner. April 2000

237: Regulation, market structure and performance in telecommunicationsH Olivier Boylaud and Giuseppe Nicoletti. April 2000 This work has also been published in OECD Economic Studies, Special issue: Regulatory Reform, n. 32, 2001

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236: Predicting the evolution and effects of the Asia crisis from the OECD perspectiveH

PeteH Richardson,H Ignazio Visco and HClaude Giorno.H April 2000

235: Modelling manufacturing export volumes equations a system estimation approachH Keiko Murata, Dave Turner, Dave Rae and Laurence Le Fouler. April 2000

234: The Polish tax reformH Patrick Lenain and Leszek Bartoszuk. March 2000

233: The tax system in Mexico - a need for strengthening the revenue-raising capacity H Thomas Dalsgaard. February 2000

232: EMU, the euro and the European policy mix H Jonathan Coppel, Martine Durand and Ignazio Visco. February 2000

231: The tax system in Japan- a need for comprehensive reformH Thomas Dalsgaard and Masaaki Kawagoe. February 2000

230: TheH size and role of automatic fiscal stabilisers in the 1990s and beyond H Paul van den Noord. January 2000

229: Enhancing environmentally sustainable growth in Finland H Ann Vourc'h and Miguel Jimenez. January 2000

228: Finance and growth, Some theoretical considerations, and a review of the empirical literatureH Kotaro Tsuru. January 2000

1999

227: What the yield curves say about inflation - does it change over timeH Sebastian T. Schich. December 1999

226: Summary indicators of product market regulation with an extension to employment protection legislation H Giuseppe Nicoletti, Stefano Scarpetta and Olivier Boylaud. December 1999

225: Some issues related to the equity-efficiency trade-off in the Swedish tax and transfer systemH Henning Strand. November 1999

224: The economic effects of employment-conditional income support schemes for the low- paid- an illustration from a CGE model applied to four OECD countriesH Andrea Bassanini, Jørn Henrik Rasmussen and Stefano Scarpetta. October 1999

223: The use of financial market indicators by monetary authorities H Paul Mylonas and Sebastian Schich. September 1999

222: Tax reform in Switzerland H David Carey, Kathryn Gordon and Philippe Thalmann. August 1999

221: Trends in market opennessH Jonathan Coppel and Martine Durand. August 1999 78

220: Technology upgrading with learning cost - a solution for two "productivity puzzles" Sanghoon Ahn. July 1999

219: Testing for a common OECD Phillips curveH Dave Turner and Elena Seghezza. July 1999

218: Sustainable economic growth- natural resources and the environment in NorwayH Paul van den Noord and Ann Vourc'h. July 1999

217: Coping with population ageing in Australia H David Carey. July 1999

216: Estimating prudent budgetary margins for 11 EU countries- A simulated SVAR model approach H

Thomas Dalsgaard and HAlain de SerresH. July 1999

215: The problems and prospects faced by pay-as-you-go pension systems- A case study of Greece Paul Mylonas and Christine de la Maisonneuve. May 1999

214: Greek public enterprises - Challenges for reform H

Paul Mylonas and IsabelleH Joumard.H May 1999

213: The levels and cyclical behaviour of mark-ups across countries and market structuresH Joaquim Oliveira Martins and Stefano Scarpetta. April 1999. This work has also been published in "Estimation of the Cyclical Behaviour of Mark-ups: A technical note", OECD Economic Studies, no. 34, 2002

212: Poverty dynamics in four OECD countries H Pablo Antolín, Thai-Thanh Dang and Howard Oxley. April 1999

211: The recent experience with capital flows to economiesH Sveinjörn Blöndal and Hans Christiansen. March 1999

210: Foreign portfolio investors before and during a crisis H Woochan Kim and Shang-Jin Wei. February 1999

209: Towards more efficient government- reforming federal fiscal relations in GermanyH Eckhard Wurzel. February 1999

1998

208: Stock market fluctuations and consumption behaviour - some recent evidenceH

Laurence Boone, ClaudeH GiornoH and PeteH Richardson.H December 1998

207: Microeconometric analysis of the retirement decision- the Netherlands H Maarten Lindeboom. June 1998

206: Microeconometric analysis of the retirement decision- United Kingdom H Raffaele Miniaci and Elena Stancanelli. June 1998

205: Microeconometric analysis of the retirement decision - Italy H Raffaele Miniaci. June 1998 79

204: Microeconometric analysis of the retirement decision - GermanyH Pablo Antolin and Stefano Scarpetta. June 1998

203: Microeconometric analysis of the retirement decision- United StatesH Joseph Quinn, Richard Burkhauser, Kevin Cahill and Robert Weathers. June 1998

202: The retirement decision in OECD countries H Sveinbjörn Blöndal and Stefano Scarpetta. June 1998

201: Macroeconomic effects of pension reforms in the context of ageing populations- overlapping generations model simulations for seven OECD countries H Ketil Hviding and Marcel Mérette. June 1998

200: The of ageing, pensions and savings- a surveyH Richard Kohl and Paul O'Brien. June 1998

199: Marginal effective tax rates on physical, human and R&D capital H Kathryn Gordon and Harry Tchilinguirian. June 1998

198: The Norwegian health care systemH Paul van den Noord, Terje Hagen and Tor Iversen. May 1998

197: APEC trade liberalisation - its implications Seunghee Han and Inkyo Cheong. May 1998

196: The OECD jobs strategy - progress report on implementation of country-specific recommendations H May 1998

196: La Stratégie de l'OCDE pour l'emploi - Rapport sur l'état d'avancement de la mise en oeuvre des recommandations by paysH Mai 1998

195: Trends in OECD countries' international competitiveness - the influence of emerging market economiesH Martine Durand, Christophe Madaschi and Flavia Terribile. April 1998

194: TheH European Union's trade policies and their economic effects H

PeterH Hoeller,H Nathalie Girouard and Alessandra Colecchia. April 1998

193: The macroeconomic implications of ageing in a global contextH

Dave Turner, ClaudeH GiornoH, AlainH de Serres,H Ann Vourc'h and PeteH Richardson.H March 1998

192: Efficiency and distribution in computable models of carbon emission abatementH Joaquim Oliveira Martins and Peter Sturm. March 1998. This work has also been published in "Efficiency and Distribution in Computable Models of Carbon Emission Abatement", in G. Heal and G. Chichilnisky (eds.) Environmental Markets: Equity and Efficiency, Columbia University Press, 2000.

191: Monetary policy when inflation is low H Charles Pigott and Hans Christiansen. March 1998

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190: Submission by the OECD to the G8 growth, employability and inclusion ConferenceH March 1998

189: Income distribution and poverty in selected OECD countriesH Jean-Marc Burniaux, Thai-Thanh Dang, Douglas Fore, Michael Förster, Marco Mira d'Ercole and Howard Oxley. March 1998

188: Asset prices and monetary policy H Mike Kennedy, Angel Palerm, Charles Pigott and Flavia Terribile. February 1998

187: NAIRU - incomes policy and inflation H Silvia Fabiani, Alberto Locarno, Gian Paolo Oneto and Paolo Sestito. January 1998

1997

186: OECD submission to the Irish National Commission H December 1997

185: OECD submission to the UK Low Pay Commission H December 1997

184: Concept, measurement and policy implications of the NAIRU - perspective from Belgium H Joost Verlinden. October 1997

183: Structural unemployment in DenmarkH Agnete Gersing. September 1997

182: The United Kingdom NAIRU - Concepts, measurement and policy implications H Chris Mellis and A.E. Webb. September 1997

181: Globalisation and linkages - Macro-structural challenges and opportunities H

PeteH Richardson H [editor]. September 1997

180: Regulation and performance in the distribution sectorH Dirk Pilat. September 1997

179: Measurement of non-tariff barriersH Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern. July 1997

178: The NAIRU-concept- A few remarksH Karl Pichelmann and Andreas Ulrich Schuh. July 1997

177: Structural unemployment in Finland H Pasi Holm and Elina Somervouri. July 1997

176: Taxation and economic performanceH Willi Leibfritz, John Thornton and Alexandra Bibbee. June 1997

175: Long-term interest rates in globalised marketsH Hans Christiansen and Charles Pigott. May 1997

174: InternationalH implications of European Economic and Monetary Union H Norbert Funke and Mike Kennedy. May 1997

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173: TheH NAIRU in Japan - Measurement and its implications H Fumihira Nishizaki. February 1997

172:The unemployment problem - A Norwegian perspectiveH Steinar Holden. February 1997

171: The reliability of quarterly in seven major countries- A user's perspective H Robert York and Paul Atkinson. February 1997

1996

170: Confidence indicators and their relationship to changes in economic activity H Teresa Santero and Niels Westerlund. November 1996

169: Labour productivity levels in OECD countries - Estimates for manufacturing and selected service sector

DirkH Pilat. September 1996

168: Ageing populations, pension system and government budgets- Simulations for 20 OECD countries Deborah Roseveare, Willi Leibfritz, Douglas Fore and Eckhard Wurzel. September 1996

167: Modelling the supply side of the seven major OECD economiesH

Dave Turner, PeteH RichardsonH and Sylvie Rauffet. August 1996

166: SizeH distribution of output and employment- A data set for manufacturing industries in five OECD countries, 1960s-1990 H Bart van Ark and Erik Monnikhof, Economics Debartment. August 1996

165: Trade and competition- Frictions after the RoundH The International Trade and Investment Division, Economics Department. July 1996

164: , competition and performanceH Colin Mayer. June 1996

163: FiscalH relations within the European Union H

PeterH Hoeller,H Marie-Odile Louppe and Patrice Vergriete. April 1996

162: MarkH -up ratios in manufacturing industries - Estimates for 14 OECD countriesH Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Stefano Scarpetta and Dirk Pilat. April 1996. This work has also been published in "Mark-ups pricing, Market structure and the Business cycle", OECD Economic Studies, no. 27, 1996.

161: Innovation firm size and market structure- Schumpeterian hypotheses and some new themesH George Symeonidis. April 1996

160: ValuingH the right to tax incomes - An options pricing approachH Teun Draaisma and Kathryn Gordon. April 1996

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159: Innovation and competitive advantageH P.A. Geroski. September 1995

158: Monetary policy at price stability- A review of some issuesH Malcolm Edey, Norbert Funke, Mike Kennedy and Angel Palerm. September 1995

157: Technical progress, factor productivity and macroeconomic performance in the medium term

ClaudeH Giorno,H HPete Richardson H and Wim Suyker. September 1995

156: Ageing populations, pension systems and government budgets: How do they affect saving? H Willi Leibfritz, Deborah Roseveare, Douglas Fore and Eckhard Wurzel. July 1995

155: The determinants of real long-term interest rates- 17 country pooled-time-series evidenceH Adrian Orr, Malcolm Edey and Michael Kennedy. June 1995

154: An assessment of financial reform in OECD countriesH Malcolm Edey and Ketil Hviding. May 1995

153: Markets for tradeable CO2 emission quotas principles and practiceH and Geoffrey Heal. March 1995

152: Estimating potential output, output gaps and structural budget balancesH by ClaudeH GiornoH, Pete Richardson,H Deborah Roseveare and Paul van den Noord. February 1995

151: SOx emissions and carbon abatementH by Christophe Complainville and Joaquim Oliveira Martins. January 1995

1994

150: The determinants and properties of monetary conditions- Direct survey evidence from

New Zealand H Andreas Fischer and Adrian Orr. December 1994

149: Health care reform, controlling spending and increasing efficiency H Howard Oxley and Maitland MacFarlan. December 1994

148: Macroeconomic performance and fiscal policy adjustments in the medium term-

Alternative medium-term scenariosH

PeteH Richardson,H ClaudeH GiornoH and Stephan Thurman. October 1994

147: The EC's internal market- Implementation, economic consequences, unfinished businessH

PeterH Hoeller H and Marie-Odile Louppe. August 1994

146: OECD model comparison project (II) on the costs of cutting carbon emissions.

Comparison of model structure and policiy scenarios- GREEN and 12RTH Alan Manne and Joaquim Oliveira Martins. August 1994

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145: An international sectoral data base for fourteen OECD countries (Second edition) H F.J.M. Meyer zu Schlochtern and J.L. Meyer zu Schlochtern. June 1994

144: FiscalH policy, government debt and economic performanceH Willi Leibfritz, Deborah Roseveare and Paul van den Noord. June 1994

143: GREEN - The Reference Manual H Dominique van der Mensbrugghe. May 1994

1993

142: Pension liabilities in the seven major economiesH Paul van den Noord and Richard Herd. December 1993

141: The distribution system in Sweden H Sören Wibe. October 1993

140: The distribution sector in the United KingdomH John A. Dawson. October 1993

139: The Italian distribution systemH Luca Pellegrini and Angelo M. Cardani. October 1993

138: The French distribution industry and the openess of the French economyH Patrick Messerlin. October 1993

137: TheH German distribution systemH Josef Lachner, Uwe Chr. Täger and Günter Weitzel. October 1993

136: AH study of the distribution system in Japan H Masayoshi Maruyama. October 1993

135: AnH analysis of the U.S. distribution systemH Roger R. Betancourt. October 1993

134: MarketH structure, international trade and relative wagesH Joaquim Oliveira Martins. October 1993. This work has also been published in "Market Structure, Trade and Industry Wages", OECD Economic Studies, no. 22, 1994.

133: The Economic Analysis of Institutions and Organisations- in general and with respect to

Country studies H Oliver E. Williamson. September 1993

132: High and persistent unemployment- assessment of the problem and its causesH Jørgen Elmeskov. September 1993

131: Centralisation of wage bargaining and macroeconomic performance - a surveyH Lars Calmfors. September 1993

130: UnemploymentH and labour force participation - trends and cyclesH Jørgen Elmeskov and Karl Pichelmann. June 1993

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129: Trends and cycles in labour productivity in the major OECD countries H Giuseppe Nicoletti and Lucrezia Reichlin. June 1993 This work has been also published in CEPR Working Paper, No. 808, July 1993

128: InternationalH integration of financial markets and the cost of capital H Mitushiro Fukao. March 1993

127: The international spillovers of capital income taxation- an applied general equilibrium analysis H François Delorme, Lawrence H. Goulder and Philippe Thalmann. January 1993

126: The future of capital income taxation in a liberalised financial environmentH David Carey, Jean-Claude Chouraqui and Robert P. Hagemann. January 1993

1992

125: GlobalH effects of the European carbon taxH Giuseppe Nicoletti and Joaquim Oliveira Martins. December 1992. This work has also been published in "The Global Effects of the European ", in The European Carbon Tax: an Economic Assessment, (eds.) C. Carraro and D. Siniscalco, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993 (with G. Nicoletti) This work has also been published in French as "Effets globaux de l'écotaxe européenne"", Revue Economique, Vol. 45, n. 3, Mai 1994

124: TheH Chinese economic area - economic integration without a free trade agreementH Randall Jones, Robert King and Michael Klein. July 1992

123: NewH issues, new results - the OECD's second survey of the macroeconomic costs of reducing CO2 emissions H

PeterH Hoeller,H Andrew Dean and Masahiro Hayafuji. July 1992

122: CostsH of reducing CO2 emissions - evidence from six global models H

Andrew Dean and HPeter Hoeller.H July 1992

121: ResultsH for the OECD comparative modelling project from the Whalley-Wigle model H John Whalley (University of W.Ontario) and Randall Wigle (Wilfried Laurier University). July 1992

120: OECD's indicators of international trade and competitivenessH Martine Durand, Jacques Simon and Colin Webb. July 1992

119: LH es indicateurs de compétitivité et de commerce internationaux de l'OCDEH Martine Durand, Jacques Simon and Colin Webb. July 1992

118: The costs of reducing CO2 emissions - a comparison of carbon tax curves with GREENH Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Jean-Marc Burniaux, John P. Martin and Giuseppe Nicoletti. July 1992. This work has also been published in "The Costs of Reducing CO2 Emissions: a Comparison of Carbon Tax Cost Curves with GREEN" in A. Dean (ed.) The Costs of Cutting Carbon Emissions: Results from Global Models, OECD Monographs, 1993.

117: AdjustmentH under fixed exchange rates- application to the European Monetary Union H A. Steven Englander and Thomas Egebo. July 1992

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116: GREENH - a multi-sector, multi-region, dynamic general equilibrium model for quantifying the costs of curbing CO2 emissions- a technical manual H Jean-Marc Burniaux, John P. Martin, Giuseppe Nicoletti and Joaquim Oliveira Martins. May 1992.This work has also been published in "GREEN: A Global Model for Quantifying the Costs of Policies to Curb CO2 Emissions", OECD Economic Studies, no. 19, 1992.

115: The costs of reducing CO2 emissions - evidence from GREENH Jean-Marc Burniaux, John P. Martin, Giuseppe Nicoletti and Joaquim Oliveira Martins. May 1992. This work has also been published in "The Costs of International Policies to Reduce CO2 Emissions: Evidence from GREEN", OECD Economic Studies, no. 19, 1992.

114: CarbonH taxes and CO2 emissions targets - results from the IEA model H E. Lakis Vouyakas, IEA. April 1992

113: Use of the Edmonds-Reilly model to model energy-related greenhouse gas emissions H D.W. Barns, J.A. Edmonds and J.M. Reilly, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Washington D.C. April 1992

112: TheH welfare effects of fossil carbon restrictions- results from a recursively dynamic trade model H Thomas Rutherford, University of Western Ontario. April 1992

111: GlobalH 2100 - alternative scenarios for reducing carbon emissionsH Alan S. Manne, Stanford University. April 1992

110: EnergyH taxation and price distortions in fossil fuel markets- some implications for climate change policy

PeterHH Hoeller H and Jonathan Coppel. April 1992

109: The information content of interest rate spreads across financial systems

FrankH Browne and Warren Tease. April 1992

108: IsH there a future for capital income taxation? Jack M. Mintz. March 1992

107: A "credit" crunch- the recent slowdown in bank lending and its implications for monetary policy H Paul Francis O'Brien and Frank Browne. March 1992

1991

106: EnergyH prices, taxes and carbon dioxide emissions H

PeterH Hoeller H and Markku Wallin. July 1991

105: Saving trends and measurement issuesH Jørgen Elmeskov, Jeffrey Shafer and Warren Tease. July 1991

104: GREENH - a multi-sector, multi-region, dynamic general equilibrium model for quantifying the costs of curbing CO2 emissions- a technical manual H J.M. Burniaux, J.P. Martin, G. Nicoletti and J. Oliveira Martins. June 1991

103: The costs of policies to reduce global emissions of CO2- initial simulation results with

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J.M. Burniaux, J.P. Martin, G. Nicoletti and J. Oliveira Martins. June 1991. This work has also been published in "The Economic Costs of International Agreements to Emissions of CO2", The Economic and Social Research Institute papers no. 14, May, 1992.

102: PatternsH of recoveries for the major seven OECD countriesH Marco Mira d'Ercole. June 1991

101: PH -star as an indicator of inflationary pressureH

PeterH Hoeller H and Pierre Poret. April 1991

100: Old age income maintenance H Murray Petrie and Peter Sturm. April 1991

99: TheH measurement of output and factors of production for the business sector in OECD countries (the OECD Business Sector Database)H

Mark Keese, Gérard Salou and PeteH Richardson.H March 1991

98: MacroeconomicH consequences of financial liberalisation- a summary reportH Adrian Blundell-Wignall and Frank Browne. March 1991

97: Deregulation,H credit , financial fragility and economic performanceH Michael Driscoll. February 1991

96: Increasing financial market integration, real exchange rates and macroeconomic adjustment H Adrian Blundell-Wignall and Frank Browne. February 1991

95: Financial liberalisation, asset prices and exchange ratesH Marcus Miller and Paul Weller. February 1991

94: FinancialH liberalisation and international trends in stock, corporate bond and foreign exchange market volatilities H Paul Kupiec. February 1991

93: A for debt analysis of the Latin America region and debt accounting models for the highly indebted countries H Peter Dittus and Paul O'Brien. February 1991

92: Unemployment persistence and insider-outsider forces in wage determination Bertil Holmlund. February 1991

91: Infrastructure and private-sector productivity H Robert Ford and Pierre Poret. January 1991

1990

90: TheH public sector - issues for the 1990sH Howard Oxley, Maria Maher, John P. Martin and Giuseppe Nicoletti. December 1990

89: A survey of studies of the costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions H

PeterH Hoeller,H Andrew Dean and Jon Nicolaisen. December 1990

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88: Business investment in the OECD economies- recent performance and some implications for policy H Robert Ford and Pierre Poret. November 1990

87: TheH "puzzle" of wage moderation in the 1980s H Pierre Poret. November 1990

86: ModellingH wages and prices for the smaller OECD countriesH

Kenichi Kawasaki, PeterH Hoeller H and Pierre Poret. October 1990

85: SimulatingH the OECD Interlink model under alternative monetary policy rulesH

PeteH Richardson.H October 1990

84: WalrasH - a multi-sector, multi-country applied general equilibrium model for quantifying the economy-wide effects of agricultural policies- a technical manual H Jean-Marc Burniaux, François Delorme, Ian Lienert and John P. Martin. August 1990

83: ExchangeH rate policy in advanced commodity-exporting countries- the case of Australia and New Zealand H Adrian Blundell-Wignall and Robert G. Gregory. July 1990

82: EconomicsH and the environment- a survey of issues and policy optionsH

Jon Nicolaisen and PeterH Hoeller.H July 1990

81: FinancialH liberalisation and consumption behaviour H Adrian Blundell-Wignall, Frank Browne and Stefano Cavaglia. March 1990

80: Fiscal indicatorsH Edward E. Gramlich, The University of Michigan. April 1990

79: SuggestionsH for a new set of fiscal indicators H Olivier Blanchard (MIT and NBER). April 1990

78: Indicators of fiscal policy- a re-examination H Jean-Claude Chouraqui, Robert P. Hagemann and Nicola Sartor. April 1990

77: MonetaryH policy in the wake of financial liberalisation H Adrian Blundell-Wignall, Frank Browne and Paolo Manasse. April 1990

76: TheH dollar position of the non-US private sector, portofolio effects, and the exchange rate of the dollar H Bixio Barenco. February 1990

75: MeasuringH industrial subsidies- some conceptual issues H Neil Bruce. February 1990

74: IndustrialH subsidies in the OECD countriesH Robert Ford and Wim Suyker. January 1990

73: TheH saving behaviour of Japanese households H Kenichi Kawasaki. January 1990

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72: TheH role of indicators in structural surveillanceH Andrew Dean. January 1990

1989

71: ModellingH business sector supply for the smaller OECD countriesH

Raymond Torres, PeterH Jarrett H and Wim Suyker. October 1989

70: On the sequencing of structural reforms Sebastian Edwards. September 1989

69: TheH information content of the term structure of interest rates- theory and practiceH Frank Browne and Paolo Manasse. September 1989

68: The impact of increased government saving on the economy Richard Herd. June 1989

67: SavingH trends and behaviour in OECD countriesH

Andrew Dean, Martine Durand, John Fallon and PeterH Hoeller.H June 1989

66: Potential output in the seven major OECD countries H Raymond Torres and John P. Martin. May 1989

65: AH post mortem on OECD short-term projections from 1982 to 1987 H Byron Ballis. February 1989

64: Revised groupings for non-OECD countries in OECD's macroeconomic model Interlink

PaulHH O'Brien, Laure Meuro and Arthur Camilleri. January 1989

63: ModellingH housing investment for seven major OECD countriesH Thomas Egebo and Ian Lienert. December 1988

62: TheH economic dynamics of an ageing population- the case of four OECD countriesH Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Rob. P. Hagemann and G. Nicoletti. January 1989 This work has also been published in OECD Economic Studies, n.12, Spring 1989 and NBER Working Paper, n. 2797, 1989

61: Ageing populations: economic effects and implications for public financeH Robert P. Hagemann and Giuseppte Nicoletti. January 1989 This work has also been published in OECD Economic Studies, n.12, Spring 1989

1988

60: CompatibleH trade and production data base - 1970-1985 Claude Berthet-Bondet, Derek Blades and Annie Pin. November 1988

59: Eliminating the U.S. federal budget deficit by 1993 - the interaction of monetary and fiscal policy Richard and Byron Ballis. December 1988

58: EmpiricalH research on trade liberalisation with imperfect competition: a surveyH J. David Richardson. November 1988

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57: AnH international sectoral data base for thirteen OECD countries F.J.M. Meyer-zu-Schlochtern. November 1988

56: On aggregation methods of purchasing power parities

R.H and M. Cuthbert. November 1988

55: QuantifyingH the economy-wide effects of agricultural policies- a general equilibrium approach

Jean-Marc Burniaux, François Delorme, Ian Lienert, John P. Martin and PeterH Hoeller.H July 1988

54: Tests of total factor productivity measurement

A.H Steven Englander. June 1988

53: AlternativeH solution methods in applied general equilibrium analysis Richard G. Harris. April 1988

52: TheH so-called "non-economic" objectives of L. Alan Winters. April 1988

51: The effects of monetary policy on the real sector- an overview of empirical evidence for selected H OECD countries Jean-Claude Chouraqui, Michael Driscoll and Marc-Olivier Strauss-Kahn. April 1988

50: PrivateH consumption, inflation and the "debt neutrality hypothesis", the case for eight

OECD countriesH Giuseppe Nicoletti. January 1988 This work has also been published in OECD Economic Studies, n.11, Fall 1988

49: AreH commodity prices leading indicators of OECD prices?H Martine Durand and Sveinbjörn Blondal. February 1988

1987

48: The medium-term macroeconomic strategy revisited Jean-Claude Chouraqui, Kevin Clinton and Robert Bruce Montador. December 1987

47: AH review of the simulation properties of OECD's Interlink model H

PeteH Richardson.H July 1987

46: RecentH developments in OECD's international macroeconomic model H

PeteH Richardson.H June 1987

45: International investment-income determination in Interlink- models for 23 OECD countries and six non-OECD regions David T. Coe, Richard Herd and Marie-Christine Bonnefous. June 1987

44: PriceH determination in the major seven country models in Interlink H Ulrich Stiehler. July 1987

43: Import and export price equations for manufactures Richard Herd. June 1987

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42: OECDH economic activity and non-oil commodity prices- reduced-form equations for Interlink Gerald Holtham and Martine Durand. June 1987

41: AH revised supply block for the major seven countries in Interlink H

PeterH Jarrett H and Raymond Torres. April 1987

40: TaxH reform in OECD countries- economic rationale and consequences H Robert P. Hagemann, Brian R. Jones and Robert Bruce Montador. August 1987

39: MonH etary policy in the second half of the 1980s- how much room for manoeuvre?

KevinH Clinton and Jean-Claude Chouraqui. February 1987

38: TrackingH the U.S. external deficit, 1980-1985- experience with the OECD Interlink model H

PeteH Richardson.H February 1987

1986

37: Internationalisation of financial markets- some implications for macroeconomic policy and for the allocation of capital Mitsuhiro Fukao and Masaharu Hanazaki. November 1986

36: TheH government household transfer data base 1960 - 1984H Rita Varley. September 1986

35: WealthH and inflation effects in the aggregate consumption function H G.H. Holtham and H. Kato. July 1986

34: PureH profit rates and Tobin's q in nine OECD countries H James H. Chan-Lee. April 1986

33: MécanismesH de transmission et effets macro-économiques de la politique monétaire en

France: les principaux enseignements économétriques H Marc-Olivier Strauss-Kahn. March 1986

32: TheH formulation of monetary policy- a reassessment in the light of recent experienceH Paul Atkinson and Jean-Claude Chouraqui. March 1986

31: TheH OECD compatible trade and production data base 1970-1983 H Anders Brodin and Derek Blades.March 1986

30: PublicH debt in a medium-term context and its implications for fiscal policy H Jean-Claude Chouraqui, Brian Jones and Robert Bruce Montador. May 1986

29: Method of calculating effective exchange rates and indicators of competitivenessH Martine Durand. February 1986

28: ExchangeH rates and real long-term interest-rate differentials- evidence for eighteen

OECD countriesH David T. Coe and Stephen S. Golub. February 1986

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1985

27: CommodityH prices in Interlink H Gerry Holtham, Tapio Saavalainen, Paul Saunders and Helen Sutch. November 1985

26: AggregateH supply in Interlink - model specification and empirical results H John Helliwell, Peter Sturm, Peter Jarrett and Gérard Salou. November 1985

25: ÉcartH entre les importations et les exportations dans les statistiques du commerce extérieur de l'OCDEH Derek Blades and Marina Ivanov. September 1985

24: FlexibilitéH du marché du travail et chocs extérieurs sur les prixH F. Klau and A. Mittelstadt. September 1985

23: ChangesH in the composition of output and employment H Axel Mittelstädt and Françoise Correia. June 1985

22: LesH prix de l'énergie: évolution et prespectivesH Axel Mittelstädt. June 1985

21: Taux d'intérêt réels et perspectives de croissance durable Paul Atkinson and Jean-Claude Chouraqui. May 1985

20: ProfitsH and rates of return in OECD countries H James H. Chan-Lee and Helen Sutch. May 1985

19: NominalH wage determination in ten OECD economiesH David T. Coe and Francesco Gagliardi. March 1985

18: BasesH de données compatibles sur le commerce et la production de l' OCDEH Derek Blades and Wendy Simpson. January 1985

1984

17:RealH gross product in OECD countries and associated purchasing power parities H Peter Hill

16: Monetary policy in the OECD Interlink model H A. Blundell-Wignall, M. Rondoni, H. Ziegelschmidt and J. Morgan. September 1984

15: StructuralH budget deficits and fiscal stance H Patrice Muller and Robert W.R. Price. July 1984

14: La conduite de la politique monétaire dans la phase actuelle de reprise économique H Paul Atkinson and Jean-Claude Chouraqui. April 1984

13: The and velocity in major OECD countries A. Blundell-Wignall, M. Rondoni and H. Ziegelschmidt. February 1984

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12: TauxH d'activité: analyse et projectionsH James H. Chan-Lee. January 1984

11: L'acH tion exercée par l'Etat sur la redistribution du revenu H Paul Saunders. January 1984

1983

10: Dynamique des prix et structure industrielle: une analyse théorique économétrique David Encaoua (with collaboration from Paul Geroski et Riel Miller). July 1983

9: MediumH -term financial strategy- the co-ordination of fiscal and monetary policy H

Jean-Claude Chouraqui and RobertH Price.H July 1983

8: Simulation des effets macro-économiques d'une forte baisse des prix pétroliers Flemming Larsen and John Llewellyn. June 1983

7: TheH determinants of exchange rate movements H Graham Hacche. June 1983

6: SouplesseH de la production et inflation: étude globale H David T. Coe and Gerald Holtham. April 1983

5: PrixH des ressources naturelles et politique macro-économique: les enseignements de deux chocs pétroliersH John Llewellyn. April 1983

4: ServiceH lives of fixed assetsH Derek Blades. March 1983

3: WageH formation in France- sectoral aspectsH Patrick Artus. March 1983

2: Capital, energy and labour substitution- the supply block in OECD medium-term models H Patrick Artus. March 1983

1: UtilisationH des élasticités de la demande de l'énergie H Axel Mittelstädt. March 1983

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