Cette etude vise d'abord a reconnaitre et a evaluer les consequences de la formation des grappes industrielles dans l'optique de la localisation future des activites a coefficient eleve de technologie ou de savoir en Amerique du Nord. Elle vise aussi a définir et a examiner diverses initiatives...

L'objet de la presente etude est de passer en revue et de synthetiser la documentation pertinente sur les liens entre le changement technologique et l'evolution de la productivite. Bien que theoriquement distinctes, ces deux notions sont souvent liees dans les debats sur les politiques et elles...

Host gorvernments are rarely neutral toward inward foreign direct investment (FDI). The policy taken by host governments over the past two decades has generally been to liberaliza restrictions or barriers to inward FDI. This paper considers if investment rule liberalization has had a significant...

This study examines the ratio of long-distance to local telephone prices across a sample of developed countries. Using regression analysis, support is provided for the hypothesis that long-distance prices will be lower relative to local prices to the extent that large business subscribers are a...

This paper examines the relationship between regional economic integration and FDI in North America, where two RIAs have been established over the past decade: a bilateral free trade agreement between Canada and the U.S. (CUSTA) and a trilateral agreement (NAFTA) incorporating Mexico as well....

This study identifies the changes affecting the Canadian forest products industry and relates those changes to imperatives facing Canadian firms to modify their corporate and business-level strategies. The paper investigates the role of innovation strategies and suggests changes to institutional...

This paper sets out a conceptual model that describes how the configuration of relevant geographic markets might change as electronic “gateways” or portals challenge conventional markets. It then considers the main conceptual inferences against the experience of securities markets....