Using revised Statistics Canada estimates of output and inputs, this paper examines changes in the patterns of capital formation and the sources of economic growth for the Canadian business sector over the 1995-2000 period and makes comparisons with the 1981-1995 period. The changing composition...

Much of the recent Canadian productivity debate has focused on the Canada-U.S. productivity growth gap but fewer efforts have been directed to tracing and quantifying its sources. This paper fills this gap by exploiting the frontier approach to productivity measurement. Using a nonparametric...