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The authors measure the economies of scale of Canada's six largest banks and their cost-efficiency over time. Using a unique panel data set from 1983 to 2003, they estimate pooled translog cost functions and derive measures of relative efficiency and economies of scale. The disaggregation of the...
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The authors compare the efficiency of Canada's largest banks with U.S. commercial banks over the past 20 years. Efficiency is measured in three ways. First, the authors study key performance ratios, and find that Canadian banks are as productive as U.S. banks. Second, they investigate whether...
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In Canada, temporary workers account for 14 per cent of jobs in the non-farm business sector, are present in a range of industries, and account for 40 per cent of the total job reallocation. Yet most models of job reallocation abstract from temporary workers. This paper evaluates the importance...
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In this paper we explore variables that may have an impact on multifactor productivity (MFP) in the long-run using the …
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This paper analyzes endogenous fluctuations in total factor productivity (TFP) in a dynamic general equilibrium model … firms, and fluctuations in TFP in response to firm-level productivity and aggregate credit-market shocks. I also analyze the …
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The authors provide an extensive review of the rapidly expanding research on productivity, both at the macro and micro …, especially the United States, where such work sheds important light on particular aspects of productivity growth. The authors …
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-down approach of Diewert and Yu (2012). Inputs and outputs are measured and used to estimate the quarterly total factor productivity …
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productivity, by altering the makeup of plants that populate the market. An appreciation of the local currency increases the level … structural model that captures the effect of plantlevel productivity and real exchange rate fluctuations on plant entry and exit … decisions in the Canadian agricultural implements industry, and how this, in turn, affects aggregate productivity. The model …
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Using industry-level data for 22 Canadian manufacturing industries, the authors examine the relationship between exchange rates and investment during the period 1981-97. Their empirical results show that the overall effect of exchange rates on total investment is statistically insignificant....
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Although a number of studies have demonstrated the importance of the degree of factor utilization in economic analysis, the impact of the durations of utilization in a production function remains largely unknown, particularly in terms of the duration of equipment utilization. Using French data...
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