Several authors maintain that smokers impose a considerable burden on society through hospitalization and medical costs and lost output due to premature death. In this paper, supplementary costs related to smoking are estimated at 669 million dollars for the year 1986 in Canada. However, since...

This innovative book assesses the impact of labour standards on the competitiveness of firms through a comparison of developing and industrialized countries. The lack of a strict code of labour standards in developing countries is thought to result in unfair competition, which industrialized...

En este trabajo analizamos la situación actual de la Econometría espacial, como disciplina de naturaleza econométrica especializada en el manejo de datos y relaciones de tipo espacial. Se trata de un campo de investigación que ha evolucionado muy rápidamente en las últimas décadas...

PAELINCK J. H. P. and POLESE M. (1999) Modelling the regional impact of continental economic integration: lessons from the European Union for NAFTA, Reg. Studies 33 , 727-738. The paper sketches the outlines of a 'model' for predicting the impact of continental economic integration (CI) on...

I: Reflecting on Methodology -- 1. Tribute to Luigi Solari -- 2. The scientific work of Luigi Solari -- II: Modelling -- 3. Econometric model building for the Common Market -- 4. A nonlinear expenditure system: Qualitative Analysis and Experiments with Canadian Data -- III: Estimating -- 5. A...