This paper considers the implications of changing trade barriers on the survival of Canadian manufacturing firms. A segmented market Cournot model was developed to describe the effects of trade liberalization for heterogeneous firms operating in diverse industries. The predictions of this model...

Ce document permet d'examiner les consequences de l'evolution des obstacles aux echanges sur la survie des entreprises manufacturieres au Canada. Nous avons elabore un modele de Cournot a marches segmentes pour decrire les effets de la liberalisation des echanges sur des entreprises heterogenes...