This paper presents an estimate of the growth in total factor productivity, on the basis of gross production, in Quebec manufacturing industries from 1967 to 1978. The purpose of the paper is to characterize the distribution of the productivity gains between the various economic parties involved...

In recent years, issue of automobile insurance has required governments to make fundamental and controversial choices. In Quebec, the 1979 automobile insurance reform introduced a universial no-fault regime. There is no overall assessment of the consequences of this reform. However, an analysis...

This paper deals with involuntary unemployment. We suppose that wages fail to clear markets and undertake a disequilibrium analysis of the effect of unemployment insurance (U.I.) on unemployment and production. The disequilibrium model is so constructed as to take into account the impact of U.I....

This paper analyses multi-period regulation on procurement policies under asymmetric information between the regulator firms.