This lecture examines the issue of federal-provincial relations in the particular case of the Canada-Quebec relationship. The lecture is divided into three parts. The first one presents evidence on the relative strength of the provincial and federal governments in Canada in an attempt to assess...

This lecture examines the issue of federal-provincial relations in the particular case of the Canada-Quebec relationship. The lecture is divided into three parts. The first one presents evidence on the relative strength of the provincial and federal governments in Canada in an attempt to assess...

This paper studies a model where the power to set policy (a choice of project) may be assigned to central or regional government via either a federal or unitary referendum (constitutional rule, CR). The benefit of central provision is an economy of scale, while the cost is political...

This paper studies within a dynamical model how decentralized individuals happen to elect non-proprietary standard. The issue is coordination because the individual benefit of adoption depends on whether other agents elect to adopt the same standard. It shows that whenthere are increasing...

The paper constructs a two-sector model of endogenous growth for a Mixed Economy characterized by two private inputs, labor and capital, and the services of an accumulable pure public input (of which an important example is infrastructure). Final goods are produced by a competitive private...

The paper constructs a two-sector model of endogenous growth for a Mixed Economy characterized by two private inputs, labor and capital, and the services of an accumulable pure public input (of which an important example is infrastructure). Final goods are produced by a competitive private...