OBJECTIVES
This
project chart and pioneer problems, issues and methodologies for the development
of a system of indicators on competitiveness and fiscal impact on enterprise
performance. It deals with issues such as the following:(i) development a high
quality comprehensive and robust multi-source, integrated and systematised data
base, which can be relied upon for a broad range of micro-founded statistical
indicators, with focus on e- and non e sectors; (ii) creation of enterprise data
sets for microsimulation purposes, specifically to simulate and monitor the
impact of public policy on enterprise performance, that are flexibly modulated
according to whether one wishes to simulate national or other EU member or EU-wide
policies; and (iii) creation of consistently built national policy models, that
can easily be integrated into any country tax algorithms, to see what effects
one country’s rules would produce if applied in any country, or to investigate
the impact of EU policies across member countries taking into account their
specialization and socio-economic structures.
DESCRIPTION OF WORK
The
work is shaped around three components:
(1)
creation of a multisource integrated and systematized database and related
issues. This is organized in three work packages. The first consists of a review
of different types of longitudinal and cross-sectional data bases; their
pitfalls and drawbacks, related statistical issues (quality, linkage problems,
etc.), when applied to the analysis of heterogeneity and dynamics of firm
universe, specifically exhaustive surveys and administrative register data
covering the entire population of corporate firms and sample surveys for SME.
The second consists in the development of robust data-marts of a flexible
user-friendly software and for the treatment of non response. The third consists
in the development of software for the computation of quality indicators and
test hypothesis;
(2)
creation of datasets for microsimulation purposes. This implies the solution of
four problems: (i) data validation; (ii) incompleteness; (iii) updates and
projection; (iv) data quality and methodology for sensitivity analysis;
(3)
development of a system of indicators on effectiveness and impact of public
policy, with focus on e- and non e-sectors. This consists of five work packages.
The first implies (i) the conceptualization and development of the indicators
and general framework for national modules required to build-in sufficient
flexibility to accommodate and integrate different databases, fiscals rules,
elements of the simulation process and model output, respecting and recognizing
levels of confidentiality; (ii) the development of tax bases modules; (iii) the
development of the tax schedule modules and other provision; (iv) solution to
cross-linkages problems and possibility of applying national modules to other
countries as well to EU level; and, finally, (v) issue of compliance. Building
on the experience of each member of the consortium, and the specificities of
each country involved in the project, issues, problems and methods are examined,
pioneered and tested with a view to set guidelines and learn from experience
that can serve as a basis for developing a EU-wide exercise.
MILESTONES AND EXPECTED RESULTS
The
project contributes to advance specifically in three areas: 1) development of a
system of indicators on competitiveness that can be used to benchmark enterprise
performance, distinguishing between e- and non e-sectors; 2) development of a
first generation of microsimulation models that can serve to monitor and
simulate the impact of public policy on enterprises with different
characteristics or belonging to different sectors; 3) development of integrated
data bases of micro enterprise data bases that can serve to generate indicators
by means of algorithms or model.
