This Paper Reviews the Literature on the Compliance Costs Incurred by Businesses and Individuals Because of One Or More Taxes. It Presents Both the Main Characteristics, Such As Sample Size, Interview Techniques and So On, and the Key Findings of the Nineteen Studies Reviewed. in General, One...

We Present a Model of a Mineral Producing Sector Where Irreversible Investment in Capacity and the Presence of Orebodies Which Differ in Quality and Volume Help Explain Some Important Stylized Facts. in Particular We Find That, While Deposits Are Exhausted in Declining Order of Grade, More Than...

This Paper Show Monetary Policy Rules That Partially Accommodate Price Increases Can Worsen Both Price and Output Variability, Contrary to the Conventional Wisdom of Models with Staggered Contracts and Rational Expectations. This Phenomenon Is of Particular Interest Given Evidence From a Sample...

Multi-country models have not been very successful in replicating important features of the international transmission of business cycles. Standard models predict cross-country correlations of output and consumption which are respectively too low and too high. In this paper, we build a...

De la Fin des Annees Cinquante au Debut des Annees Soixante-Dix, la Question des Cycles Regionaux et Plus Particulierement le Cas du Quebec et de L'ontario a Fait L'objet de Plusieurs Etudes. le Consensus Empirique Obtenu Voulait Que les Fluctuations Economiques Quebecoises Soient Plus Marquees...

In This Article, It Is Argued That the Long International, Financial and Economic Cycle (50-60 Years) Is More Than a Statistical Aberration, and Is the Result of Institutional Political, Financial and Economic Conditions Which Are Recurrent. It Is Proposed As an Hypothesis That the Breakdown of...