The quantification of structural reforms in OECD countries: A new framework

Balázs Égert and Peter Gal

OECD Journal: Economic Studies, 2017, vol. 2016, issue 1, 91-108

Abstract: This document describes and discusses a new supply side framework that quantifies the impact of structural reforms on per capita income in OECD countries. It obtains the overall macroeconomic reform impacts by aggregating over the effects on physical capital, employment and productivity through a production function. On the basis of reforms defined as observed changes in policies, the paper finds that product market regulation has the largest overall single policy impact five years after the reforms. But the combined impact of all labour market policies is considerably larger than that of product market regulation. The paper also shows that policy impacts can differ at different horizons. The overall long-term effects on GDP per capita of policies transiting through capital deepening can be considerably larger than the 5- to 10-year impacts. By contrast, the long-term impact of policies coming only via the employment rate channel materialises at shorter horizon.

Keywords: Structural reforms; simulation; per capita impact (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 E17 E22 E24 J08 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Working Paper: The quantification of structural reforms in OECD countries: A new framework (2017)
Working Paper: The Quantification of Structural Reforms in OECD countries: A New Framework (2017)
Working Paper: The quantification of structural reforms in OECD countries: A new framework (2017)
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