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Restoring fiscal sustainability in the Euro Area: raise taxes or curb spending?

07-Nov-2006

Boris Cournède and Frédéric Gonand

This study quantitatively compares the growth implications of different fiscal consolidation strategies. Economics Department Working Paper 520.

Creation and Governance of Human Genetic Research Databases

31-Oct-2006

Summarises proceedings of a conference looking at examples of human genetic research databases, how they are established, how they are managed and governed, how they might be commercialised, and what the policy considerations might be.

Facilitating adjustment: Sector experiences from agriculture, telecommunications and chemicals

12-Oct-2006

Michael Engman, Osamu Onodera and Norbert Wilson

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 41.  How can governments facilitate structural adjustment?  This follow up to Trade and Structural Adjustment: Embracing Globalisation discusses benefits of multilateral commitments, possible costs of domestic regulations, and sequencing issues.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained: the long-run fiscal reward of structural reforms

30-Jun-2006

Peter Hoeller and Claude Giorno

This paper highlights the positive long-run budgetary effects of structural reforms in the euro area.  Economics Department Working Paper 493.

DEV Centre WP 250: Effects of Migration on Sending Countries: What Do We Know?

27-Jun-2006

Louka T. Katseli, Robert E.B. Lucas and Theodora Xenogiani

This paper, focusing mostly on European migration, provides an evaluative review which aims to enhance our understanding of migration and its potential role for development.

Government R&D Funding and Company Behaviour: Measuring Behavioural Additionality

08-Jun-2006

This publication explores the emerging concept of behavioural additionality (how government funding of business R&D affects the behaviour of firms) and summarises results of a multinational effort to measure it.

NERO 2006: Country size and strategic aspects of structural reforms in the EU - slides

06-Jun-2006

Jacques Le Cacheux

Presentation by Jacques Le Cacheux (OFCE) at the NERO meeting on the political economy of structural policy reform on 12 June 2006.

NERO 2006: The effects of EMU on structural reforms in labour and product market

06-Jun-2006

Romain Duval and Jorgen Elmeskov

Presentation by Romain Duval (OECD) at the NERO meeting on the political economy of structural policy reform on 12 June 2006.

NERO 2006: Country size and strategic aspects of structural reforms in the EU

06-Jun-2006

Eloi Laurent and Jacques Le Cacheux

Presentation by Jacques Le Cacheux (OFCE) at the NERO meeting on the political economy of structural policy reform on 12 June 2006.

New Europe, new frontiers, new opportunities, new challenges

28-Mar-2006

Donald J. Johnston, Secretary-General of the OECD

In this speech delivered at the European Banking and Financial Forum in Prague, the OECD's Secretary-General says that in order to represent an economic force greater than the US, and help move multilateralism ...