Many OECD countries had key crisis management arrangements in place prior to COVID

Public Long-term Care Financing Arrangements in OECD Countries

With population ageing and reductions in family care, utilisation of formal long-term care for disabled people is growing in all high-income countries. Higher demand for formal services is emerging also because of people’s expectations for high-quality care. These factors are pushing up the cost of formal long-term care across OECD countries and raise questions about who should pay more promine...

Management Strategies to Control the COVID-19 Crisis in Masih Daneshvari Hospital, Tehran, Iran

Debt management and crisis in developing countries

Debt management policy for governments of developing countries must balance conflicting objectives. The structure of explicit and implicit government debt influences the amount of lending private creditors are willing to extend, contractual debt service costs, the probability of default and the costs of default. Because default is not relevant for governments of industrial countries, their debt...

Regulatory issues in management of chemicals in OECD member countries.

The chemical risk assessment is determinant for the approval of any kind of chemical. Each aspect of chemical is taken into consideration for the new chemical legislation registration, evaluation, and authorization of chemicals (REACH). However, some improvements can be made in order to select and authorize a chemical. QSAR techniques have been used for the study of several kind of toxicologica...

Evidence from OECD Countries

In this paper we use a representative consumer model to analyse the equilibrium relation between the transitory deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for both stock returns and housing returns. The evidence based on data for 15 OECD countries shows that when agents expect future stock returns to be higher, the...