While many aspects of housing markets have been extensively analysed, little empirical work has been undertaken on the supply of housing services. Despite this dearth of information, many researchers have characterised the supply of housing as being competitive. It is the intent of this article,...

Ontario’s electric distribution utilities began the 1990s with a stellar record of reliability that rivalled that of any advanced economy. While individual network reliability varied, the system customer-weighted average was exemplary and remained stable over the decade. These networks were...

De La Grandville (1989) suggests that large elasticities of substitution between factor inputs and a change in relative prices might (i) explain historical economic growth in developing countries and (ii) account for the varying growth among sectors within economies undergoing technological...

Beginning in 1999, the Canadian Province of Ontario undertook restructuring and tried to implement performance based regulation for local electricity distribution utilities. Regulatory parameters were based on productivity research covering 1988-1997 that found little productivity difference by...

This paper presents a methodology for quantifying the benefits and costs of telecommunications to various stakeholder groups. The stakeholders are differentiated by age (elderly), income (high income and low income) and geography (urban and rural). The analysis suggests that there are...

A two-way causal relationship between telecommunications infrastructure investment and economic development, established for the US economy in previous analysis, is tested at the more localized state and sub-state level and for two specific sub-categories of telecommunications infrastructure...

Time series analyses of 31 years of US data (1958-88, inclusive) were consistent with two causal hypotheses. First, the level of US economic activity at any point in time is a reliable predictor ('cause') of the amount of US telecommunications investment at a later point in time. Second, the...