Structural Reform in Open Economies
A Road to Success?
Edward Elgar Publishing
Published on 28. July 1999
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-84064-065-6 (ISBN)
Description
This insightful book focuses on the economic consequences of structural reform policies in the economies at the cutting edge of reform: Denmark, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Norway. The contributors examine policies aimed at improving the underlying path of growth, employment and saving-investment balances of the economy and apply state of the art methods to measure and model structural reforms. They examine the areas of competition policy, regulation of entry barriers, non-tariff trade barriers and employment protection rules as well as the quality of education and training, the efficiency of various public sector agencies and labour supply effects of care for children and the elderly. Special attention is paid to two 'success stories': New Zealand's 'Kiwi-model' and the Dutch 'Polder-model'. The book provides a welcome addition to the scarce evidence on both the costs and the benefits of structural reform and identifies the policy problems and the analytical issues at stake.
This book will be indispensable to policymakers and academics with an interest in structural reform and macroeconomic policy.
This book will be indispensable to policymakers and academics with an interest in structural reform and macroeconomic policy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84064-065-6 (9781840640656)
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Persons
Edited by Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, Professor of International Economics and Macroeconomics, international Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Hague, The Netherlands, Jarig van Sinderen, Professor of Economic Policy, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University, the Netherlands and Ben A. Vollaard, formerly of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, The Netherlands
Content
Contents: Preface 1. Structural Reform: The Issues Part I: Experiences with Structural Reform 2. Reform and Experience in New Zealand 3. The Policy Experience of Structural Reform in the Netherlands 4. Structural Reform in the Netherlands and New Zealand: Two Roads to Success? Part II: Modelling Structural Reform 5. Gains from Improved Sectoral Efficiency in Norway 6. A Dynamic CGE Analysis of the Danish 1993 Tax Reform Act Part III: Measuring Structural Reform 7. A Miracle or Not? Recent Trends in the Growth Performance of the Dutch Economy 8. Productivity, Wage Moderation, and Specificity in Factor Inputs Index