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Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development : Evidence from Historical Treaties

Feir, Donna; Gillezeau, Rob; Jones, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

For nearly three centuries, Indigenous peoples within the borders of present-day Canada engaged in treaty-making with …

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The Long and Short of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

Trefler, Daniel - 2001

The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) provides a unique window on the effects of trade liberalization. It was an …

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International Franchising : Evidence from US and Canadian Franchisors in Mexico

Lafontaine, Francine - 2001

The contracting practices of franchisors outside of theirdomestic markets have received limited attention in the empirical literature on franchising, mostly due to data limitations. We exploit a newly assembled data set that allows us not only to describe the contracting practices of US and...

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Macroeconomic Factors and Antidumping Filings : Evidence from Four Countries

Knetter, Michael M. - 2000

This paper examines the relationship between antidumping filings and macroeconomic factors. We show that real exchange rate fluctuations affect the two criteria for dumping in opposite ways, making the overall effect on filings ambiguous in theory. Interestingly, no such ambiguity is evidenced...

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Business Cycles in International Historical Perspective

Basu, Susanto - 1999

This paper examines business cycles theoretically and empirically, with a quantitative study based on experience over the long run and in a cross section of countries. Several major questions in business cycle theory are explored. Theoretical concerns indicate that the properties of business...

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Wages, Skills, and Technology in the United States and Canada

Murphy, Kevin M. - 1998

Wages for more- and less-educated workers have followed strikingly different paths in the U.S. and Canada. During the … fell slightly in Canada. Katz and Murphy (1992) found that for the U.S. a simple supply-demand model fit the pattern of ….S. and Canada. In both instances, the relative demand for more-educated labor shifts out at the same, consistent rate. Both …

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Saving, Investment, and Gold : A Reassessment of Historical Current Account Data

Jones, Matthew T. - 1997

This paper revises pre-World War II current account data for thirteen countries by treating gold flows on a consistent basis. The standard historical data sources often fail to distinguish between monetary gold exports, which are capital-account credits, and nonmonetary gold exports, which are...

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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?

Collins, William J. - 1997

Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...

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Cost of Capital for the United States, Japan, and Canada : An Attempt at Measurement Based on Individual Company Records and Aggregate National Acccoun

Ando, Albert - 1997

countries such as the US, Canada, and Japan. Attempts are made to carry out the measurement based both on the accounting records … depreciation and before taxes is found to fluctuate around 10-11% without a persistent trend. For Canada, the indivi- dual company … Canada supple- mented by some unpublished data supplied by Statistics Canada suggest that the cost of capital in Canada is …

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Do Borders Matter for Social Capital? Economic Growth and Civic Culture in U.S. States and Canadian Provinces

Helliwell, John F. - 1996

The paper first assesses regional and ethnic group differences in social trust and memberships in both Canada and the … seven adjectives, a feature more prevalent in the United States than in Canada, (black, white, Hispanic and Asian in the … United States; French, English and Ethnic in Canada) have lower levels of trust than those who consider themselves Canadians …

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