Materias: “…Natural gas Prices China…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Le volume des apports philanthropiques reste modeste par rapport à l'APD mais dans certains secteurs clés tels que la santé et la santé reproductive, les fondations privées sont des acteurs de premier plan -- 1.4.2. …”

“…Bayesian Model Averaging techniques are used to analyse how robustly it is possible to identify factors that may lead to the bursting of asset price bubbles in OECD economies. A large set of variables put forward in the literature is assessed, as well as interactions of these variables with estimates of asset price misalignments to evaluate the importance of the different channels postulated by theory. …”

“…Cette série de publications traite des différents aspects du développement du secteur privé dans les régions non-OCDE telles que l'Amérique latine et les Caraïbes, le Moyen-Orient et l’Afrique du Nord, l'Asie du Sud-Est, l’Europe du Sud-Est et l’Eurasie. …”

“…The OECD has adopted a new basket methodology for benchmarking wireless broadband prices. It adds to the existing baskets for voice, leased lines and fixed broadband services and reflects the increasing importance of wireless broadband for laptops, tablets and smartphones…”

“…As an application, the impact of crop yield shocks on price volatility is studied. Since the concurrent reduction in production in different countries is deemed as one of the factors of the price spike in 2007/08, the contribution of correlation of yield shocks to price volatility is measured. …”

“…The interest in marketing margins and price transmission has recently gained remarkable momentum and the amount of studies on this subject is rapidly growing. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Additional sources of information per country -- Policy challenges related to water pricing -- Water pricing in OECD countries: state of play -- Introduction -- Why water pricing is an issue…”

“…With corrections in many, but not all, housing markets having now occurred, and, in some countries, prices having rebounded rapidly in the low interest rate environment, the issue of whether prices are now close to another turning point is again of considerable policy interest. …”

“…This paper presents work on wage/price blocks for the smaller OECD countries which has been implemented in OECD's world econometric model, INTERLINK. …”

“…The housing market is also considered as an example where pronounced price "bubbles" have appeared. The paper concludes with a discussion of the potential welfare impact of departures from efficiency in the foreign exchange market, where it is argued that the case for some form of intervention is strongest ..…”

“…Improvements in the terms of trade due to rising export prices and/or falling import prices are associated with hikes in export volumes on the back of rising import demand and some labour shedding in the sectors using imported capital goods. …”

“…However, they have generated multiple (explicit and implicit) carbon prices, which can reduce the overall cost-effectiveness of climate change mitigation policy. …”

“…As for now, however, crude oil price (FOB-Free on board) accounts for less than a fifth of transport costs. …”

“…The paper employs a structural vector auto-regression (SVAR) along the lines of Blanchard and Quah (1989) and Clarida and Gali (1994) to identify the sources of changes in German international price competitiveness over the past 30 years. This leads to a separation of the driving forces of the real exchange rate into real demand, supply, and nominal shocks. …”

“…Le gouvernement flamand de Belgique a récemment approuvé l’affectation d’un investissement d’un milliard d’euros à des infrastructures scolaires dans le cadre de partenariats public-privé ; il s’agit de son premier grand projet de ce type. …”

“…It then discusses the link between carbon emission intensities and current energy prices, touching also on the relative price effects of current energy policies and the implicit carbon taxes reflected in present energy taxation for different fuels. …”

“…This annual publication contains a major international compilation of energy prices including crude oil and oil product spot prices, import costs by crude stream, industry prices and consumer prices. …”

“…The responsiveness of housing supply to changes in prices bears important implications for the evolution of housing prices and the speed of adjustment of housing markets. …”