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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372470
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470431
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470547
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Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis
Card, David - 2000
United Kingdom and Canada: both countries experienced similar slowdowns in the rate of growth of educational attainment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471112
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Regional Nonadjustment and Fiscal Policy : Lessons for EMU
Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999
pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare the US with Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and also with Canada …, which is closer to European than the US is in its labor market and fiscal institutions. Europe's (and to some extent Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471641
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472172
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Inflation Targeting : Lessons from Four Countries
Mishkin, Frederic S. - 1998
first three countries to undertake such strategies New Zealand, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It also analyzes the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472420
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472755
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The Evolving External Orientation of Manufacturing Industries : Evidence from Four Countries
Campa, Jose - 1997
Significant changes in the external orientation of manufacturing industries are observed in the United States, Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472905
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472944