The main body of theory concerned with the gains and losses incurred because of international investment has been carried out in the context of a two factor-two country-good model in which labour is immobile internationally while some of the capital goods of the home country are invested abroad....

Performance evaluation of public sector enterprises is an activity which if we were to ask what it should incorporate, we would likely compile a long list of issues for investigation. A selected number of these would probably cover areas such as: financial performance, corporate planning,...

Large-scale, capital intensive projects in Canada frequently rely on foreign financing and as a result the foreign-owned segment of many sectors has grown considerably. New projects either reallocate the existing foreign investment into the country or cause a net augmentation to the capital...

The development of the international petroleum industry has been influenced by the taxation policies of the United States, the home country of most of the major integrated international petroleum producers. These corporations are multinational in the most general definition of the word,...

Information on the rates of return and effective rates of taxation from capital in the private sectors of an economy are prerequisites for both rational public sector project evaluations and for measurement of the degree of equity and excess burden credited by the economy’s taxation system. In...

The purpose of this paper is the construction of a framework to evaluate the relative incentives for investment created by the differential taxation of income from capital in the manufacturing, mining and petroleum sectors of the Canadian economy. This analysis does not deal with the issue of...

The main body of this paper consists of a description of an economic forecasting model of the Canadian Economy. The results of a preliminary estimation are presented. Use of the model as a forecasting tool is then discussed in relation to simulations that have been made.

The entire Bolivian tax system is in need of thoroughgoing reform. A series of ad hoc adjustments in the system over the years, primarily made in response to recurring short-run fiscal emergencies, has yielded a patchwork overall tax structure that is not only chronically unable to satisfy...

The main body of theory concerning international investment has dealt primarily with the derivation of the conditions under which it is necessary to either subsidize or tax traded goods and foreign investment in order to obtain the optimum level of foreign investment for the welfare maximization...

The Canadian economy experienced an increasing rate of inflation during the last half of the 1960s.The latter part of this period; interest rates reached levels higher than had been experienced for several decades. This study attempts to explain how the levels of interest rates are determined and...