Dan Andrews

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared a number of housing policies such as housing taxation, land use and rental regulations and social housing policies for OECD countries relying on new data, and investigated whether these housing-related policies achieve their objectives in an efficient and equitable way and whether there are any side effects on other aspects of housing markets or on the wider economy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the extent to which "zombie" firms are stifling labour productivity performance and show that the prevalence of and resources sunk in zombie firms have risen since the mid-2000s and that the increasing survival of these low productivity firms at the margins of exit congests markets and constrains the growth of more productive firms.

TL;DR: This article analyzed the characteristics of firms that operate at the global productivity frontier and their relationship with other firms in the economy, focusing on the diffusion of global productivity gains and the policies that faciliate it.

TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship between inequality and intergenerational mobility and found that sons who grew up in countries that were more unequal in the 1970s were less likely to have experienced social mobility by the late 1990s.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used micro-econometric decomposition techniques to investigate the role of public policy in explaining the increase in homeownership rates in many OECD countries over recent decades.