Why has physical piracy of music grown globally in recent years despite international efforts to reduce the problem? This research employs cross-country time series data analysis to examine physical music piracy rates across developed and developing economies. We provide 1999-2004 cross-country evidence from 70 countries that mean global music piracy rates grew over this period, and observe dif...

Non-clinical animal studies to assess the safety of compounds under development have to comply with Good Laboratory Practice (GLP). The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has established the Mutual Acceptance of Data (MAD) system in OECD member countries for the mutual acceptance of non-clinical safety study data. Since 1997 non-OECD-member countries have also been ab...

This paper extends the literature on productivity spillovers from inward FDI. We use comparable industry level data for 17 OECD countries and investigate the importance of horizontal and vertical spillovers, and differences between CEEC and other OECD countries. Results show that there is evidence for spillovers through vertical backward linkages between multinationals and domestic firms for al...

This study determines influence of advanced technology and foreign capital on economic growth apart from contribution of the other major domestic inputs. The countries were classified into four groups; i.e., lower and lower middle income countries, upper middle income countries, non-OECD high income countries, and OECD countries. Five major factors as sources of growth in this study are domesti...

The article looks at the issue of local taxation in 22 selected European countries, members OECD, as well Union member states. author analyses importance taxes for regional and governments measured by share tax revenues received these a percentage GDP total revenues. She also presents structure study is based on OECD revenue Europe database.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview of expert systems technology and its potential applications. The Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) held two workshops of expert systems, the First OECD Workshop on Knowledge-Based Expert Systems in Transportation held in ESPOO, Finland, in June 1990, to review current expert systems activities in the OECD countr...