The impact of private finance on publicly funded health care systems depends on how the relationship between public and private finance is structured. This essay first reviews the experience in five nations that exemplify different ways of drawing the public/private boundary to address the particular questions raised by each model. This review is then used to interpret aggregate empirical analy...

This paper demonstrates that some conventional indicators used in research evaluation may fail to account for the non-linearity between size of institution and performance. This can result in an overor under-estimation of the research performance of both large and small institutions and nations. This paper shows that a power law relationship exists between recognition or impact and (a) publishi...

This series of background papers was commissioned for the Global Development Outlook 2010: Shifting Wealth and the Implications for Development. These papers have been contributed by the Non-Residential Fellows of the Global Development Outlook, eminent scholars from developing and emerging countries, to provide insight and analysis on the areas covered by the main report. The opinions expresse...

Pursuant to Article 1 of the Convention signed in Paris on 14th December 1960, and which came into force on 30th September 1961, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) shall promote policies designed: − to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of living in Member countries, while maintaining financial stability, and thus t...

The literature testing for long-run impacts of fiscal policy on growth at the macro level has generally ignored short-run dynamics and treated all counties’ fiscal-growth dynamics identically. This paper examines how robust previous ‘long-run’ results for OECD countries are to new empirical methods that model short-run dynamics and allow fiscal-growth responses to be heterogeneous both across c...

This paper by Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke was submitted as background material for Item10 at the 127th meeting of OECD Competition Committee on 21-23 June 2017. The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of the Organisation or of the governments of its member countries. More documents related to this discussion can be found at www....

The OECD Workshops on the Economics of the Information Society are aimed at developing economic data, research and analysis under the aegis and direction of the ICCP Committee as the precursor for policy discussions within the Committee. The workshops will concentrate on providing leading edge research on the economics of the coming "information society", will have a quantitative and empirical ...