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Environmental Policies and Productivity Growth: A Critical Review of Empirical Findings

Koźluk, Tomasz; Zipperer, Vera - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

The economic effects of environmental policies are of central interest to policymakers. The traditional approach sees environmental policies as a burden on economic activity, at least in the short to medium term, as they raise costs without increasing output and restrict the set of production...

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A Framework for Assessing Green Growth Policies

Serres, Alain de; Murtin, Fabrice; Nicoletti, Giuseppe - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

This paper proposes an analytical framework for assessing policies that will contribute to a better integration of environmental externalities in the pursuit of economic efficiency and growth objectives. The framework consists of two parts. The first part lays out principles and criteria for the...

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A Framework for Assessing Green Growth Policies

de Serres, Alain - 2010

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Towards net zero in the Czech Republic

Sila, Urban - 2023

The Czech economy is very carbon-intensive and has among the highest greenhouse gas emissions per unit of GDP in the OECD. Getting on the path towards net zero will require rapid emission reductions over the coming decades. Coal still makes up close to one third of the energy supply and the...

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Towards net zero emissions in Denmark

Barker, Andrew - 2022

Denmark has been a frontrunner in policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and now plans to cut emissions by 70% by 2030 from 1990 levels and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Such ambition induces halving emissions from 2019 levels and making the same emission abatement effort in ten...

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The 2013 update of the OECD's database on product market regulation: Policy insights for OECD and non-OECD countries

Koske, Isabell; Wanner, Isabelle; Bitetti, Rosamaria; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015

This paper investigates patterns in product market regulation across 34 OECD and 21 non-OECD countries, using an updated and revised version of the OECD’s indicators of product market regulation (PMR). The analysis shows that liberalisation of product markets has further slowed over the past...

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Import Competition, Domestic Regulation and Firm-Level Productivity Growth in the OECD

Yahmed, Sarra Ben; Dougherty, Sean - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012

This paper examines how import penetration affects firms' productivity growth taking into account the heterogeneity in firms' distance to the efficiency frontier and country differences in product market regulation. Using firm-level data for a large number of OECD countries, the analysis reveals...

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Exports and Property Prices in France: Are They Connected?

Égert, Balázs; Kierzenkowski, Rafal - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

France has seen a marked deterioration in its export performance in the last 10 years or so. Previous empirical … research pointed out that weak export performance was due to i) vigorous domestic demand; ii) lower mark-ups due to head …. Our econometric analysis shows that the resource reallocation argument helps explain French export performance between the …

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Modeling Institutions, Start-ups and Productivity during Transition

Brixiova, Zuzana; Égert, Balázs - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

The transition paths from plan to market have varied markedly across countries. Central and Eastern European and the Baltic countries, which opted for a fast and profound transformation of their institutions, rapidly narrowed the productivity gap with advanced economies. In contrast, in...

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How Market Imperfections and Trade Barriers Shape Specialisation: South-America vs. OECD

Martins, Joaquim Oliveira; Price, Tristan - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004

The paper set out four types of market structure clusters (based on an OECD benchmark) to assess different entry barriers, both endogenous and policy-induced that may affect the ability of enterprises in emerging countries to penetrate international markets. This framework is then applied to...

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