The objective is to explore the correlational structure of government activity variables. By using principal components analysis with data from eighteen OECD countries (averaged between 1971-85) and variables which reflect the size of government, it is concluded that the controversy over the use...

The objective of this paper is to examine the effects of long-term climate change, as a consequence of doubled atmospheric carbon dioxide, on Canadian prairie agriculture. The climate change scenarios are based on regional results from two leading general circulation models (GCMs), and GFDL...

The paper examines empirically the changes in the tax mix of the OECD countries in response to economic growth from 1980 to 1999. It is found that economic growth, measured by GDP per capita, has had a significant effect on the tax mix of the OECD countries. Analysis reveals that different taxes...

A relatively strong performance of the North American stock markets during the last two decades, notwithstanding the sharp decline experienced in the year 2000 and beyond, has set the stage for an empirical investigation of the possible effects that stock wealth, among other variables, can have...