For more than a decade, the United States and Canada have been engaged in a rancorous dispute over trade in softwood … industry has sought to have countervailing duties imposed upon Canadian lumber imports. The U.S. interests argue that Canada …

the United States and Canada, prohibition was part of a broad political, economic, and social coalition termed the … Progressive Movement. Cigarette prohibition was special interest regulation, though not of the usual narrow neoclassical genre; it … opponents of cigarette regulation were cigarette smokers and the more organized cigarette lobby. An active Progressive Movement …

, Canada, and France. We argue that the same forces that led to falling real wages for less-skilled workers in the U ….S. affected similar workers in Canada and France. Consistent with the view that labor market institutions are more rigid in France … somewhat less in Canada, and did not fall at all in France. Contrary to expectations, however, we find little evidence that …

results suggest reformed incentives for third-party auditors can improve their reporting and make regulation more effective …

somehow help solve the public goods problem inherent in workplace regulation. Second, the agent must be able to reduce the …

A pre-specified set of nine prominent U.S. equity return anomalies produce significant alphas in Canada, France …