Determining the driving factors of migration and brain drain helps Iranian policy makers to prevent migration and brain drain. This study considers two models of migration and brain drain from Iran to Canada. Variables include the number of educated and non-educated migrants, real Iranian...

Objectives: Recent studies suggest an ambiguous relationship between obesity and cigarette taxes. We employ Canadian data to evaluate the effects of cigarette taxes on smoking and obesity. Methods: We use a simple reduced form approach and exploit the significant cross-province differences that...

Decreasing inflation uncertainty, as the major source of welfare costs, requires finding the driving factors of this variable. Counting inflation as one of the driving factors of inflation uncertainty has created some concern due to the ambiguity over the causality between inflation and...

The impact of innovation on mergers has been a subject of debate in merger enforcements. Firms may decide to merge because of increasing market share and expanding capacity. However, mergers may also be motivated by innovation since they provide resources for commercialization of innovation and...

Empirical research on the relationship between innovation and firm level productivity offers conflicting results. We investigate the impact of innovation on labour productivity through the construction of a unique panel data-set that merges information on roughly 5,000 publicly traded U.S....