How good is trust? Measuring trust and its role for the progress of societies

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21-Oct-2009

Adolfo Morrone, Giulia Ranuzzi, OECD Statistics Directorate and Noemi Tontoranelli, Unicredit

Statistics Working Paper 2009/3 - This paper investigates the notion and role of trust in modern societies as a first step towards the construction of indicators that could better inform our understanding ...

The final financial investment of French households

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26-Feb-2009

Denis Marionnet, Banque de France, Financial Accounts Division

Statistics Working Paper 2009/2 - This study wants to spot and analyse the “final financial instruments” in which French households’ financial savings are invested by making transparent their intermediated ...

Do financial systems converge? New evidence from household financial assets in selected OECD countries

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25-Feb-2009

Giuseppe Bruno and Riccardo De Bonis, Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relation Area

Statistics Working Paper 2009/1 - Many authors underlined the convergence of financial structures towards a model which combines elements of the Anglo Saxon one, where markets prevail, with characteristics ...

The OECD System of Unit Labour Cost and Related Indicators

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25-Mar-2008

Richard McKenzie and David Brackfield, OECD Statistics Directorate

Statistics Working Paper 2008/4 - This paper outlines in detail the methodology and statistical processes used for compiling the outputs of the OECD System of Unit Labour Cost and Related Indicators. This ...

Globalisation in Services: From Measurement to Analysis

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12-Feb-2008

Isabelle Bensidoun and Deniz Ünal-Kesenci, Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Information Internationales, Paris

Statistics Working Paper 2008/3/REV1 - This paper provides new estimates of international trade in services for mode 3 (foreign affiliates' sales in a host country) for four major OECD countries, thanks ...

A Framework for Addressing and Measuring Entrepreneurship

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28-Jan-2008

Nadim Ahmad, OECD and Anders N. Hoffmann, Danish Enterprise and Construction Authority

Statistics Working Paper 2008/2 - In recent years entrepreneurship has become a buzzword that‘s entered the mainstream. Politicians continuously cite its importance and the need to create more entrepreneurial ...

Defining Entrepreneurial Activity: Definitions Supporting Frameworks for Data Collection

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28-Jan-2008

Nadim Ahmad, OECD and Richard Seymour, The University of Sydney, Australia

Statistics Working Paper 2008/1 - This paper sets out definitions of the entrepreneur, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial activity for the purpose of supporting the development of related indicators. ...

Statistics and Politics in a "Knowledge Society"

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13-Jun-2007

Enrico Giovannini, OECD Statistics Directorate

Statistics Working Paper 2007/2 - Several studies have analysed the characteristics of the knowledge society, as well as its impact on the production of "official" statistics. In this paper we will not ...

Current period performance of OECD Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs) - Revision analysis of CLIs for OECD Member countries

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25-May-2007

by Ronny Nilsson and Emmanuelle Guidetti, OECD Statistics Directorate

This Statistics Working Paper 2007/1 presents a comprehensive analysis of the current period performance of the OECD composite leading indicators (CLIs) for 21 OECD Member countries and three zone aggregates ...

Composite leading indicators and growth cycles in major OECD non-member economies and recently new OECD member countries

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15-Feb-2007

By Ronny Nilsson, OECD Statistics Directorate

Statistics Working Paper 2006/5 - The OECD developed a System of Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs) for its member countries in the early 1980.s based on the "growth cycle" approach and up to 2006 the ...

Measuring the Progress of Societies

How does the well-being of societies evolve? Sets of key economic, social and environmental indicators are needed to provide a comprehensive picture. More about the Global Project


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