Cassandra Castle, Y. Hemmerlé, Giuliana Sarcina, Enes Sunel, F. d’Arcangelo, Tobias Kruse, D. Haugh, Álvaro M. Pina, M. Pisu, Álvaro Pereira, L. Mello, A. Serres, I. Koske, Vincent Koen, T. Kózluk, N. Pain, D. Sutherland, Jonas Teusch, Hamza Belgroun, Grégoire Garsous
{"title":"Aiming better: Government support for households and firms during the energy crisis","authors":"Cassandra Castle, Y. Hemmerlé, Giuliana Sarcina, Enes Sunel, F. d’Arcangelo, Tobias Kruse, D. Haugh, Álvaro M. Pina, M. Pisu, Álvaro Pereira, L. Mello, A. Serres, I. Koske, Vincent Koen, T. Kózluk, N. Pain, D. Sutherland, Jonas Teusch, Hamza Belgroun, Grégoire Garsous","doi":"10.1787/839e3ae1-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/839e3ae1-en","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113152,"journal":{"name":"OECD Economic Policy Papers","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126452782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spurring growth and closing gaps through digitalisation in a post-COVID world: Policies to LIFT all boats","authors":"","doi":"10.1787/b9622a7a-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/b9622a7a-en","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113152,"journal":{"name":"OECD Economic Policy Papers","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128643837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The long game: Fiscal outlooks to 2060 underline need for structural reform","authors":"","doi":"10.1787/a112307e-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/a112307e-en","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113152,"journal":{"name":"OECD Economic Policy Papers","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122879154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthesising good practices in fiscal federalism","authors":"K. Forman, Shaun Dougherty, H. Blöchliger","doi":"10.1787/89cd0319-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/89cd0319-en","url":null,"abstract":"The design of intergovernmental fiscal relations can help to ensure that tax and spending powers are assigned in a way to promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth. Decentralisation can enable sub-central governments to provide better public services for households and firms, while it can also make intergovernmental frameworks more complex, harming equity. The challenges of fiscal federalism are multi-faceted and involve difficult trade-offs. This synthesis paper consolidates much of the OECD’s work on fiscal federalism over the past 15 years, with a particular focus on OECD Economic Surveys. The paper identifies a range of good practices on the design of country policies and institutions related strengthening fiscal capacity delineating responsibilities across evels of government and improving intergovernmental co-ordination.","PeriodicalId":113152,"journal":{"name":"OECD Economic Policy Papers","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130729835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stéphane Sorbe, P. Gal, G. Nicoletti, Christina Timiliotis
{"title":"Digital Dividend: Policies to Harness the Productivity Potential of Digital Technologies","authors":"Stéphane Sorbe, P. Gal, G. Nicoletti, Christina Timiliotis","doi":"10.1787/273176BC-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/273176BC-EN","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a range of policies to enhance adoption of digital technologies and firm productivity. It quantifies illustratively the effect of policy changes by combining the results of two recent OECD analyses on the drivers of adoption and their productivity benefits. Increasing access to high-speed internet, upgrading technical and managerial skills and implementing product and labour market reforms to facilitate the reallocation of resources in the economy are found to be the main factors supporting the efficient adoption of a selection of digital technologies. The most productive firms have benefitted relatively more from digitalisation in the past, contributing to a widening productivity gap with less productive firms. Policies should create the conditions for efficient adoption by less productive firms, which would help them to catch up, achieving a double dividend in terms of growth and inclusiveness. Enhancing skills has a key role to play in this area since less productive firms suffer relatively more from skill shortages.","PeriodicalId":113152,"journal":{"name":"OECD Economic Policy Papers","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115970388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public finance structure and inclusive growth","authors":"Boris Cournéde, J. Fournier, P. Hoeller","doi":"10.1787/E99683B5-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/E99683B5-EN","url":null,"abstract":"Tax and spending reforms offer numerous opportunities to promote inclusive growth. There is potential for so-called win-win reforms that simultaneously boost economic output and enhance income equality. Other changes in the structure of public finances will produce benefits only along a single dimension, while some involve trade-offs between average income gains and adverse distributional effects. Empirical analyses of the experience of OECD countries provide evidence about which tax and spending reforms influence prosperity and income distribution -- and by how much.","PeriodicalId":113152,"journal":{"name":"OECD Economic Policy Papers","volume":"22 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130852313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Long View","authors":"Yvan Guillemette, D. Turner","doi":"10.1787/B4F4E03E-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/B4F4E03E-EN","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents long-run economic projections for 46 countries, extending the short-run projections of the Spring 2018 OECD Economic Outlook. It first sets out a baseline scenario under the assumption that countries do not carry out institutional and policy reforms. This scenario is then used as a reference point to illustrate the potential impact of structural reforms in alternative scenarios, including better governance and educational attainment in the large emerging-market economies and competition-friendly product market and labour market reforms in OECD economies. Flexibility-enhancing labour market reforms not only boost living standards but, by raising the employment rate, also help alleviate fiscal pressures associated with population ageing. Another scenario illustrates the potential positive impact of linking the pensionable age to life expectancy on the participation rate of older workers, and in particular that of women. Additional scenarios illustrate the potential economic gains from raising public investment and spending more on research and development. A final ‘negative’ scenario shows how slipping back on trade liberalisation – returning to 1990 average tariff rates – might depress standards of living everywhere.","PeriodicalId":113152,"journal":{"name":"OECD Economic Policy Papers","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126411697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Income redistribution across OECD countries","authors":"O. Causa, J. Browne, Anna Vindics","doi":"10.1787/3b63e61c-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/3b63e61c-en","url":null,"abstract":"Income inequality has increased in most OECD countries over the past two decades. This is both because market incomes (wages, dividends, interest income) have become more unequally distributed, and also because redistribution through taxes and transfers has fallen. New OECD work explores cross-country evidence on trends in income redistribution since the mid-1990s to shed some light on the main drivers of the general decline.","PeriodicalId":113152,"journal":{"name":"OECD Economic Policy Papers","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131023657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}