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Quantifying structural reforms in OECD countries: a new framework. A look at how various product and labour market policies and regulations affect per capita income growth ( LSE Business Review ). Annual Economic Report 2018. Policymakers can maintain the current economic upswing beyond the short term by tackling structural reforms, rebuilding monetary and fiscal policy space to react to future threats and encouraging prompt implementation of regulatory reforms ( BIS ). Visualizing the Longest Bull Markets of the Modern Era ( Visual Capitalist ). Variation in economic preferences around the world with implications for understanding inequality: Evidence from the Global Preferences Survey. Vast inequalities exist within societies as well as across nations. This column uses a new dataset to show that preferences vary substantially across and within societies, and that these differences are related to differences in economic outcomes at the individual and aggregate levels....