In the 1920s, the United States substantially reduced immigrant entry by imposing country-specific quotas. We compare local labor markets with more or less exposure to the national quotas due to differences in initial immigrant settlement. A puzzle emerges: the earnings of existing US-born...

Undoubtedly inspired by recent advances in technology-driven payment systems such as mobile payment systems, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain technologies, recent years have seen central banks worldwide explore the possibility of issuing digital forms of fiat money called central bank digital...

In the 1920s, the United States substantially reduced immigrant entry by imposing country specific quotas. We compare local labor markets with more or less exposure to the national quotas due to differences in initial immigrant settlement. A puzzle emerges: the earnings of existing US-born...

In the 1920s, the United States substantially reduced immigrant entry by imposing country-specific quotas. We compare local labor markets with more or less exposure to the national quotas due to differences in initial immigrant settlement. A puzzle emerges: the earnings of existing US-born...

Introduction: Canada’s Past and Future in the Americas: Beyond the “Americas Strategy” / Pablo Heidrich and Laura Macdonald -- Locating Latin America: Geography, Identity, and the Americas in Canadian Foreign Policy / Asa Mckercher -- Life-death-rebirth: the Latin American Working Group...

The Jamaican Entrepôt -- Joining the International System -- Institutionalizing International Trade, 1867-1904 -- Colombia and the Emerging Latin American Market, 1904-1910 -- Internationalizing Banking and Insurance, 1886-1939 -- Tropical Oil and the Andian National Corporation, 1918-1945 --...

Canada’s Waste Flows -- Southern Canada’s Waste Management Problem -- Looking for Redemption in All the Wrong Places: Hiding Our Waste and the Cult of Recycling -- Canadian Settler Colonial Waste -- Arctic Wasteland -- Wasting Animals -- A Good Soup -- Wasting (in) the Anthropocene -- The...

"What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, dominant Canadian mining interests cash in on the transformation of land into “property,” while...

1. Introduction / James Rochlin and Gustavo Gallon -- 2. Foreign investment, oil, and human security : the case of Pacific Rubiales Energy Corporation in Puerto Gaitan / Beatriz Eugenia Sanchez Mojica. [et al.] -- 3. Ethnicity, episteme, and gold : the struggle for human security in Marmato /...

Production and marketing lags in agri-food supply chains often force agricultural producers and food processors to commit to output targets before prices and exchange rates are realized. A theoretical model illustrates how the processor's degree of risk aversion and domestic sales may cause the...

Companies can choose to compete in foreign markets either by producing goods or services in Canada and exporting them to the foreign market or by establishing a commercial presence abroad through foreign affiliates. These foreign affiliates use Canadian financial capital and know-how to produce...