This paper studies stylized business cycle properties of household production in four industrialized countries (Canada …

This paper examines the effect of the major Canada-U.S. trade agreements on the dynamics of business cycles and … productivity in Canada. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its predecessor, the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement … business cycles in Canada and the United States since the early 1980s, country-specific and idiosyncratic factors remain …

methodology to Canada and find that world real interest rate shocks can play an important role in explaining the cyclical …While the world real interest rate is potentially an important mechanism for transmitting international shocks to small … output, investment, and net exports. We reexamine the importance of world real interest rate shocks using an approach that …