This paper measures the importance of entry and exit to the Canadian manufacturing sector in the 1970s. It focuses on the size of entrants as they move from a stage of infancy to adolescence. The exit rates of births, their length of life, and the growth path of entrants are presented....

British Columbia's Pharmacare and the Ontario Drug Benefit Programme are compared with respect to drug prices, the market share of generic and brand names, and the existence of a difference between the government reimbursement price and the cost of the drug to the pharmacist. The evidence...

This paper provides measures of the importance of entry, exit, and other indicators of firm mobility in the Canadian manufacturing sector during the 1970s. It also asks whether these measures yield different information about market structure than traditional measures of concentration.

The sale of state assets, both tangible (e.g. commercial firms) and intangible (e.g. radio spectrum), can address budgetary shortfalls. However, drawing on the Irish experience to inform this important issue, it becomes clear that much more is involved in selling state assets in electricity,...