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259: Knowledge, Technology and Economic Growth: Recent Evidence from OECD Countries

Andrea Bassanini, Stefano Scarpetta and Ignazio Visco

258: Average Effective Tax Rates on Capital, Labour and Consumption

David Carey and Harry Tchilinguirian

257: The Health Care System in Poland

Nathalie Girouard and Yutaka Imai

256: Public Expenditure Reform: The Health Care Sector in the United Kingdom

Vincent Koen

255: Regulatory Reform in Road Freight and Retail Distribution

Olivier Boylaud

254: Regulation, Market Structure and Performance in Air Passenger Transportation

Rauf Gönenç and Giuseppe Nicoletti

253: Policy Interdependence during Economic Transition: The Case of Slovakia 1999-2000

Joaquim Oliveira Martins and Tristan Price

252: E-Commerce: Impacts and Policy Challenges

Jonathan Coppel

251: The Implementation and the Effects of Regulatory Reform: Past Experience and Current Issues

Rauf Gönenç, Maria Maher and Giuseppe Nicoletti

250: The Concept, Policy Use and Measurement of Structural Unemployment: Estimating a Time Varying NAIRU Across 21 OECD Countries

Peter Richardson, Laurence Boone, Claude Giorno, Mara Meacci, David Rae and David Turner

249: Options for Reforming the Spanish Tax System

Isabelle Joumard and Aristomene Varoudakis

248: Economic Growth in the OECD Area: Recent Trends at the Aggregate and Sectoral Level

Stefano Scarpetta, Andrea Bassanini, Dirk Pilat and Paul Schreyer

247: Economic Effects of the 1999 Turkish Earthquakes: An Interim Report

Alexandra Bibbee, Rauf Gönenç, Scott Jacobs, Josef Konvitz and Robert Price

246: Policy Influences on Economic Growth in OECD Countries: An Evaluation of the Evidence

Sanghoon Ahn and Philip Hemmings

245: The Tax System in the Czech Republic

Chiara Bronchi and Andrew Burns

244: The Tax System in Norway: Past Reforms and Future Challenges

Paul Van den Noord

243: A Changing Financial Environment and the Implications for Monetary Policy

Paul Mylonas, Sebastian Schich and Gert Wehinger

241: The Healthcare System in Hungary

Eva Orosz and Andrew Burns

240: Comparing Semi-Structural Methods to Estimate Unobserved Variables: The HPMV and Kalman Filters Approaches

Laurence Boone

239: New Issues in Public Debt Management: Government Surpluses in Several OECD Countries, the Common Currency in Europe and Rapidly Rising Debt in Japan

Paul Mylonas, Sebastian Schich, Thorsteinn Thorgeirsson and Gert Wehinger

238: Regulation, Industry Structure and Performance in the Electricity Supply Industry

Faye Steiner

237: Regulation, Market Structure and Performance in Telecommunications

Olivier Boylaud and Giuseppe Nicoletti

236: Predicting The Evolution and Effects of The Asia Crisis from The OECD Perspective

Peter Richardson, Ignazio Visco and Claude Giorno

235: Modelling Manufacturing Export Volumes Equations: A System Estimation Approach

Keiko Murata, Dave Turner, David Rae and Laurence Le Fouler

234: The Polish Tax Reform

Patrick Lenain and Leszek Bartoszuk

233: The Tax System in Mexico: A Need for Strengthening the Revenue-Raising Capacity

Thomas Dalsgaard

232: EMU, The Euro and The European Policy Mix

Jonathan Coppel, Martine Durand and Ignazio Visco

231: The Tax System in Japan: A Need for Comprehensive Reform

Thomas Dalsgaard and Masaaki Kawagoe

230: The Size and Role of Automatic Fiscal Stabilizers in the 1990s and Beyond

Paul Van den Noord

229: Enhancing Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Finland

Ann Vourc'h and Miguel Jimenez

228: Finance and Growth: Some Theoretical Considerations and a Review of the Empirical Literature

Kotaro Tsuru

227: What the Yield Curves say About Inflation: Does it Change Over Time?

Sebastian Schich

226: Summary Indicators of Product Market Regulation with an Extension to Employment Protection Legislation

Giuseppe Nicoletti, Stefano Scarpetta and Olivier Boylaud

225: Some Issues Related to the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off in the Swedish Tax and Transfer System

Henning Strand

224: The Economic Effects of Employment-Conditional Income Support Schemes for the Low-Paid: An Illustration from a CGE Model Applied to Four OECD Countries

Andrea Bassanini, Jørn Henrik Rasmussen and Stefano Scarpetta

223: The Use of Financial Market Indicators by Monetary Authorities

Paul Mylonas and Sebastian Schich

222: Tax Reform in Switzerland

David Carey, Kathryn Gordon and Philippe Thalmann

221: Trends in Market Openness

Jonathan Coppel and Martine Durand

220: Technology Upgrading with Learning Cost: A Solution for Two ‘Productivity Puzzles'

Sanghoon Ahn

219: Testing for a Common OECD Phillips Curve

Dave Turner and Elena Seghezza

218: Sustainable Economic Growth: Natural Resources and the Environment in Norway

Paul Van den Noord and Ann Vourc'h

217: Coping with Population Ageing in Australia

David Carey

216: Estimating Prudent Budgetary Margins for 11 EU Countries: A Simulated SVAR Model Approach

Thomas Dalsgaard and Alain de Serres

215: The Problems and Prospects Faced by Pay-As-You-Go Pension Systems: A Case Study of Greece

Paul Mylonas and Christine de la Maisonneuve

214: Greek Public Enterprises: Challenges for Reform

Paul Mylonas and Isabelle Joumard

213: The Levels and Cyclical Behaviour of Mark-ups Across Countries and Market Structures

Joaquim Oliveira Martins and Stefano Scarpetta

212: Poverty Dynamics in Four OECD Countries

Pablo Antolin, Thai-Thanh Dang and Howard Oxley

211: The Recent Experience with Capital Flows to Emerging Market Economies

Sveinbjörn Blöndal and Hans Christiansen

210: Foreign Portfolio Investors Before and during a Crisis

Woochan Kim and Shang-Jin Wei

209: Towards More Efficient Government: Reforming Federal Fiscal Relations in Germany

Eckhard Wurzel