The measurement of productivity is a complex task. The OECD has recently released a comprehensive manual or guide to the measurement of industry-level and aggregate productivity. In the fifth article, Paul Schreyer from the OECD and the author of the OECD productivity manual provides an overview...

Dirk Pilat and Paul Schreyer of the OECD discuss the new OECD Productivity Database. The database covers 26 OECD countries for labour productivity estimates, as well as 14 countries for multifactor productivity estimates. While the database represents the most comparable productivity estimates...

This paper presents the literature about econometric learning and its impact on the performances of monetary policy rules in the framework of the new canonical macroeconomic model. Rational expectations which are a building block of the original model can thus be replaced by expectations based...

We propose methods for testing hypothesis of non-causality at various horizons, as defined in Dufour and Renault (1998, Econometrica). We study in detail the case of VAR models and we propose linear methods based on running vector autoregressions at different horizons. While the hypotheses...

This paper presents a retropolation of regional sectoral employment's data series since 1967 to 2006. They have been computed from various INSEE's data series distributed along various nomenclatures. We present a technique based on 1° the "classical" (econometric + RAS) method and 2° a matrix...

An economic classification is a partition of the economy which must describe it. When description is bad, why we have to change this classification, it become difficult to built long run time series data, because we cant link data between old and new classification. This paper presents our...

This paper presents the building of long run data series about the French employment by employment area (zone d'emploi) from 1989 to 2010. We have completed the data series expressed by INSEE from 1998 to 2007. In the paper we describe our methodology and we present the results. This work is...

This "summary" of national accounting is intended to be used as support to complete the course of national accounting during exercises (*). This "summary" does't replace the main course of national accounting, but we hope the students will find a quick presentation of macroeconomic tools, their...

Il n'existe pas à l'heure actuelle d'indicateurs pertinents des politiques d'ouverture des pays du Nord à l'immigration du Sud. On propose ici un indicateur de politique « révélée », mesuré par l'écart entre les flux d'immigration observés et les flux d'immigration « normaux » qui...

De nombreuses bases de données d'indicateurs de développement, d'institutions ou de politiques de développement sont actuellement disponibles mais n'ont pas de présentation homogène car elles proviennent de diverses sources. Ce document présente l'élaboration d'une base de données «...