We Review Major Features of the History of Canada's Trade and Investment Relations Particularly with the E.E.C. and the U.S., Regional Development Pattern in the U.S.A. and Canada, and Some Theory and Estimates of the Sectoral and Regional Impacts of Bilateral Trade Liberalization.

The Paper Examines the Determinants of Variations in the Effective Average Tax Rate Among Canadian Manufacturing Industry. It Replicates a Previous Study (Salamon and Siegfried, 1977) on the Us Corporate Tax Which Has Found Relationships Between the Economic Structure and Tax Avoidance Rates....

We study the assignment of indivisible objects with quotas (houses, jobs, or offices) to a set of agents (students, job applicants, or professors). Each agent receives at most one object and monetary compensations are not possible. We characterize efficient priority rules by efficiency,...

The GARCH and Stochastic Volatility paradigms are often brought into conflict as two competitive views of the appropriate conditional variance concept : conditional variance given past values of the same series or conditional variance given a larger past information (including possibly...

We Present Several Small-Sample Results on the Distribution of Residuals and Estimators of the Disturbance Variance in Econometric Models. We Consider General Linear and Nonlinear Models with Stochastic Regressors and Possibly Nonlinear Restrictions on the Parameters. These Include...

We Show That the Destabilizing Effects of Price Flexibility Due to the Increased Sensitivity of Contract Wages to Labor Market Tightness Depends Critically on an Arbitrary Restriction on the Information Available to Wage Settes Who Ae Negotiating Contact Renewals. If These Agents Are Put on the...