10-September-2018
English
These reports provide an overview of recent supply and demand developments and, when available, forecasts from publicly available sources.
10-September-2018
English
Governments participating in the OECD Steel Committee consider excess capacity as being one of the main challenges facing the global steel sector today. This data portal makes data on steel projects in OECD countries fully accessible for the first time.
10-September-2018
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This report assesses the extent and possible implications of the presence of state enterprises in the steel industry. It examines their financial performance, showing a weaker performance among state enterprises compared to their private counterparts, and discusses possible implications in the context of industry restructuring.
31-August-2018
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After briefly looking at economic and regulatory developments that might have an impact on shipbuilding, this report attempts to shed light on shipbuilding demand by looking at recent trends in contracts and the orderbook as well as prices. It also elaborates on shipbuilding supply by detailing market shares among countries and companies.
26-July-2018
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The STAN database provides analysts and researchers with a comprehensive tool for analyzing industrial performance at a relatively detailed level of activity across countries.
5-July-2018
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Data set on R&D expenditure by industry which addresses the problems of international comparability and breaks in the time series of the official business enterprise R&D data.
25-June-2018
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This working paper uses “centrality” metrics to reflect the changing structure of global value chains. It contrasts central hubs and peripheral countries and sectors, and examines how these changes impact firm productivity.
15-June-2018
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This study proposes a taxonomy of sectors according to the extent to which they have gone digital. The taxonomy accounts for some of the key facets of the digital transformation, and recognises that sectors differ in their development and adoption of the most advanced “digital” technologies, in the human capital needed to embed them in production and in the extent to which digital tools are used to deal with clients and suppliers.
12-June-2018
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While the size-wage and size-productivity premia are significantly weaker in market services compared to manufacturing, the link between wages and productivity is stronger. The combination of these results suggests that in a service economy the “size-wage premium” becomes more a “productivity-wage premium”.
26-April-2018
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This analysis examines dynamics of estimated firm mark-ups across 26 countries over 14 years. Price mark-ups are linked to measures of digital intensity of sectors in order to ascertain whether differences in exposure to digitalisation are related to differences in mark-ups across industries, and how this relationship has changed over time.