Banking regulation and supervision were designed to protect banks from failure, but this did not avoid the large number of banking crises recently experienced by OECD countries. Using binary response models for panel data and centering on OECD countries, this paper emphasizes the poor influence of regulation and supervision on banks’ soundness and presents the main determinants of banking crise...

This country section is an extract from chapter 3 of the OECD publication (2008) Environmental Performance of Agriculture in OECD countries since 1990, which is available at the OECD website indicated below. A summary version of this report is published as Environmental Performance of Agriculture: At a Glance, see the OECD website which also contains the agri-environmental indicator time series...

The new comparative economics focuses on individual institutions rather than considering the economic system as an entity. In this essay we argue that economic systems should be defined in terms of clusters of complementary or covarying institutions. A cluster analysis of OECD countries, using data on forty different economic institutions, shows that four economic systems can be used to charact...

32 Productivity is, once more, on the agenda in many OECD countries. It has long been regarded as the long-run driver of economic growth, but attention for productivity-related issues has waxed and waned over the past decades. In recent years, productivity growth has received a great deal of attention in several OECD countries, notably Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and ...

This country section is an extract from chapter 3 of the OECD publication (2008) Environmental Performance of Agriculture in OECD countries since 1990, which is available at the OECD website indicated below. A summary version of this report is published as Environmental Performance of Agriculture: At a Glance, see the OECD website which also contains the agri-environmental indicator time series...

This country section is an extract from chapter 3 of the OECD publication (2008) Environmental Performance of Agriculture in OECD countries since 1990, which is available at the OECD website indicated below. A summary version of this report is published as Environmental Performance of Agriculture: At a Glance, see the OECD website which also contains the agri-environmental indicator time series...

This country section is an extract from chapter 3 of the OECD publication (2008) Environmental Performance of Agriculture in OECD countries since 1990, which is available at the OECD website indicated below. A summary version of this report is published as Environmental Performance of Agriculture: At a Glance, see the OECD website which also contains the agri-environmental indicator time series...