Performing Research and Development Abroad: International Comparisons of Value and Price, Report to the National Science Foundation, 2003 (with Bart van Ark, Robert Inklaar, and Robert H. McGuckin). Appendicies
"Long-term projections: Different paths to fiscal sustainability of health systems", in Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems, OECD Publishing, Jan. 2024 (with Luca Lorenzon and Pietrangelo de Biase).
"Housing supply responsiveness across levels of government: Novel evidence on tax and spending autonomy", in Bricks, Taxes and Spending, OECD Publishing, Oct. 2023 (with Frank van Hoenselaar and Boris Cournède).
"Reducing housing inequity: What can governments do?" in Bricks, Taxes and Spending, OECD Publishing, Oct. 2023 (with Peter Hoeller and Junghum Kim).
"Financing and delivering early childhood education and childcare across levels of government", OECD Journal on Budgeting, Vol. 23(2), 2023 (with Christian Morabito).
"Going global, locally? Decentralized environmental expenditure and air quality", Public Sector Economics, Vol. 46(4), 2022 (with Andoni Montes).
"Understanding differences in health care spending: a comparative study of prices and volumes across OECD countries", Health Services Insights, Vol. 15, 2022 (with Luca Lorenzoni).
"The impact of decentralisation on the performance of health care systems: A non-linear relationship", European Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 23, 2022 (with Luca Lorenzoni, Alberto Marino and Fabrice Murtin).
"Who absorbs the shock? An analysis of the fiscal impact of the COVID-19 crisis on different levels of government", Journal of International Economics and Economic Policy, Vol. 18, 2021 (with Pietrangelo de Biase).
"Independent Oversight Bodies: Lessons from Fiscal, Productivity and Regulatory Institutions"
(with Andrea Renda and Lisa von Trapp), in Plaatjies, D. (ed.) (2021), Making Institutions Work, HSRC Press, Cape Town.
"COVID-19 and fiscal relations across levels of government", Tackling Coronavirus (COVID-19), July 2020 (with Camila Vammalle, Pietrangelo De Biase and Kass Forman).
"Synthesising good practices in fiscal federalism", OECD Economic Policy Papers, No. 28, March 2020 (with Kass Forman and Hansjörg Blöchliger).
"Decentralisation in the health sector and responsibilities across levels of government: Impact on spending decisions and the budget" and "Performance measurement systems in the health sector and their budgetary implications", in OECD Journal on Budgeting, Special Issue on Health, Vol. 19, Issue 3, December 2019 (with Ivor Beazley, Caroline Penn, Leah Phillips and Chris James).
"Decentralisation in a globalised world: Consequences and opportunities " (with Robin Boadway), in Dougherty, S. and J. Kim (eds.), Fiscal Decentralisation and Inclusive Growth in Asia, OECD and KIPF, Paris, June 2019.
"What policies to combat labour informality? Evidence from Mexico", Applied Economics, Vol. 51, 2019 (with Octavio Escobar).
"Globalisation, Decentralisation and Inclusive Growth" (with Oguzhan Akgun), in Dougherty, S. and J. Kim (eds.), Fiscal Decentralisation and Inclusive Growth, OECD and KIPF, Paris, May 2018.
"Pro-Productivity Institutions: Learning from National Experience", International Productivity Monitor, Spring, No. 32, 2017.
Also issued as OECD Productivity Working Paper Nº7, OECD Global Forum on Productivity and CEPS (with Andrea Renda).
"Domestic Regulation, Import Penetration and Firm-Level Productivity Growth",
Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 26(3), 2017. Also issued as Paris School of Economics G-MonD Working Paper No. 38 and as OECD Working Paper No. 980 (with S. Ben Yahmed).
"Could Mexico become the new `China'? Policy drivers of firm-level competitiveness," European Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2016. Also issued as OECD Productivity Working Paper Nº4.
"Legal reform, contract enforcement and firm size in Mexico," Review of International Economics, Vol. 22, No. 4, September 2014. Also issued as OECD Economics Department Working Paper No. 1042.
"State-level Labour Reform and Firm-level Productivity in India," India Policy Forum (Brookings-NCAER), 2013-14 (with Verónica C. Frisancho Robles and Kala Krishna). Also issued as
"Employment Protection Legislation and Plant-Level Productivity in India," NBER Working Paper No. 17693 and
OECD Economics Dept. Working Paper No. 917. Based partially on this dataset of state-level Indian labor regulations and practices.
[Related article in the New York Times, Dec 1, 2011.]
"Boosting Growth Potential (Chapter 1)," and "Fiscal Policy to Support Inclusiveness (Chapter 3)" in Getting It Right: A Strategic Agenda for Reforms in Mexico, OECD Publishing, 2013 (Ch. 3 with B. Brys).
"The GDP Impact of Reform: A Simple Simulation Framework," Report for OECD Economic Policy Committee Working Party No. 1, used in OECD reports to the G20. Also issued as OECD Economics Department Working Paper No. 834, 2011/12 (with S. Barnes, R. Bouis, P. Briard, M. Eris).
"Long-term Growth and Policy Challenges in the Large Emerging Economies," in OECD Going for Growth, 2010. Also issued as OECD Economics Department Working Paper No. 755, 2010 (with P. Conway and A. Radziwill).
"Incorporating Terms-of-Trade Gains and Losses into International Income Comparisons," in OECD Going for Growth, 2010 (with Hervé Boulhol).
"Labour regulation and employment dynamics at the state level in India," Review of Market Integration, Vol. 1 (2009), No. 3.
Dataset available here. [Related article in the Business Standard, Jan 10, 2008.] Also issued as OECD Economics Department
Working Paper No. 624.
"India's growth pattern and obstacles to higher growth," "What is Holding Back Productivity Growth in India? Recent Microevidence," OECD Economic Studies, Vol. 45 (2009), No. 1. Also issued as OECD Economics Department Working Paper No. 523 (with R. Herd, T. Chalaux, and A. Erumban).
"Priorities for Growth in OECD Economies," in Carlos Braga (editor), Innovation and Catch-up in a Globalized World, OECD and The World Bank, 2009 (with Sven Blöndal).
"Improving human capital formation in India," OECD Economics Department Working Paper No. 625, 2008 (with R. Herd). Elaboration of last chapter of 2007 OECD Economic Survey of India, including micro-based estimates of rates of return to education.
"The structure and location of business R&D: recent trends and measurement implications," International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, Vol. 4 (2008), Issue 1/2 (with B. van Ark, R. Inklaar, and R.H. McGuckin).
"Growth Prospects in China and India Compared." European Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 4 (2007), No. 1 (with R. Herd).
"Has a Private Sector Emerged in China's Industry? Evidence from a Quarter of a Million Chinese Firms," China Economic Review, Vol. 18 (2007), No. 3. Also issued as "Fast-falling barriers and growing concentration: the emergence of a private economy in China," OECD Economics Department Working Paper No. 471 (with R. Herd). [Focus of debate with Yasheng Huang OpEd in the Financial Times (Feb 1/6, 2007), elaborated in Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics.]
"International Comparisons of R&D Expenditures: Does an R&D PPP make a difference?," in Ernst R. Berndt and Charles M. Hulten (eds.), Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services: Essays in Honor of Zvi Griliches, University of Chicago Press, 2007. Also issued as NBER Working Paper No. 12829 (with Robert Inklaar, Robert H. McGuckin, and Bart van Ark).
"The Effect of Federalism on Productivity in Chinese Firms," Management and Organization Review, Vol. 4 (2008), Issue 1 (with R.H. McGuckin).
"Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Development in China," in Carsten Fink and Keith E. Maskus (eds.), Empirical Investigations of the Effects of Intellectual Property Protection on Market Structure, Trade, and Direct Foreign Investment, The World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2005 (with Keith E. Maskus and Andrew Mertha).
"Strategic Issues for the Chinese Economy," Economic and Financial Review, Vol. 11, No. 3, Autumn 2004.
"Federalism and the Impetus for Reform in China," China Law and Practice, Vol. 15 No. 4, May 2002 (with R.H. McGuckin).