Advertising bans can increase or decrease alcohol consumption due to effects on beverage choice, price competition, and substitution by producers toward non-banned media. We study bans on broadcast advertising in seventeen OECD countries for the years 1977-95, in relation to per capita alcohol consumption, liver cirrhosis mortality, and motor vehicle fatalities. The results indicate that advert...

The main purpose of this paper is to determine the effect unemployment on non-performing loans through a comparative analysis between Western Balkans countries and some selected OECD countries. size (NPLs) plays key role in stability banking sector country. Macroeconomic factors that explain NPLs contain very important information for banks as well country studies regard, which compare developi...

Many of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries use global budgeting to control all or certain portions of their health care expenditures. Although the use of global budgets as a cost-containment tool has not been implemented in the United States in any comprehensive way, recent health care reform initiatives have increased the need for research into such tools. In g...

Econometric investigations of individual countries’ experiences with inflation and unemployment in the 1970’s have shown that it is no longer sufficient to simply assume that wages are sticky in order to explain observed macroeconomic phenomena and make policy recommendations. A number of theoretical papers appearing in the last few years, motivated in part by the international econometric comp...

This paper argues that income inequality has increased in several, but not all, developed countries over the last twenty years. The increase in some countries supports the conclusion that the deregulation of markets, resulting in the concentration of economic power, is the fundamental cause as well as the gross manifestation of inequality of both income and wealth. JEL classifi cation: D30 (Gen...

Medical resources and usage data collected regularly could be considered a major benchmark for countries. We aimed to classify the Organisation Economic Co-operation Development(OECD) member countries using World Bank in terms of medical usage. This is cross - sectional study. The between 2010-2015 were evaluated. Among 36 OECD countries, 13 them that lacked couldn’t included Hierarchical clust...

A large amount of recent evidence finds a negative relationship between local unemployment and wages in OECD countries, a relationship christened a ‘wage curve’. This contradicts the conventional model of the labour market in which high unemployment regions have higher wages to compensate for search and other costs. This paper discovers a wage curve in South Africa, a country with several times...

The paper illustrates an unconventional approach to providing adequate nourishment worldwide. Regions with an insufficient calorie supply receive transfer payments in order to increase their food budgets. The transfer payments are financed by a flat income tax in OECD countries. A general equilibrium model, which contains this transfer payment mechanism as well as information about nutrition, i...

Table 1 Centenarians Rates in 32 OECD Countries OECD Countries Centenarians Aged 50-54 CR (50–54) 2011 (A) 1961 (B) (A/B) * 10,000 Japan 49,457 4,235,088 116.78 Canada 6,030 860,932 70.04 After publication of the original article [1], the author noted that several of the figures in Table two (Table 1 here) were incorrect. The corrected table is reproduced here. We apologize for any confusion th...

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has completed phase 1 of the Hershberger validation intended to identify in vivo activity of suspected androgens and antiandrogens. Seventeen laboratories from 7 countries participated in phase 1, and results were collated and evaluated by the OECD with the support of an international committee of experts. Five androgen-responsive...