Mobility statistics are direct measures of the intensity of competition; market structure indicators indirect measures. In this regard the most widely employed measure of market structure is the concentration ratio. Despite the fact that structural measures provide only proxies for the extent of...

This paper measures the importance of entry and exit to the Canadian manufacturing sector in the 1970s. It focuses on the size of entrants as they move from a stage of infancy to adolescence. The exit rates of births, their length of life, and the growth path of entrants are presented....

British Columbia's Pharmacare and the Ontario Drug Benefit Programme are compared with respect to drug prices, the market share of generic and brand names, and the existence of a difference between the government reimbursement price and the cost of the drug to the pharmacist. The evidence...

Under European Union proposals for CO2 emission reduction between 2013 and 2020, a Member State can transfer to another Member State the right to use its unused Clean Development Mechanism ("CDMs") credits. The paper addresses three issues in relation to these CDM Warrants ("CDMW"). First, how...

This paper provides measures of the importance of entry, exit, and other indicators of firm mobility in the Canadian manufacturing sector during the 1970s. It also asks whether these measures yield different information about market structure than traditional measures of concentration.