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Why Do Voters Demand Universal Government Benefits?

Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2005

recipients. I use a model of tax and spending incidence for Canada in 1990 to see which conjecture helps best to understand the …

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ESTRATEGIAS CUANTITATIVAS DE VALOR Y RETORNOS POR ACCION DE LARGO

Rubio, Fernando - EconWPA - 2005

más importantes empresas que componen el mercado de Canadá, España, Europa, USA y Gran Bretaña. Se utiliza la metodología …

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Distributive Politics in a Strong Party System: Evidence from Canadian Job Grant Programs

Crampton, Eric - EconWPA - 2002

The distributive politics literature following Weingast (1979) predicts majoritarian redistribution within countries governed by strong party systems. This prediction is tested using evidence from Canadian job creation grant programs active during the mid-1990s. Results provide strong evidence...

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Testing and Estimating Persistence in Canadian Unemployment.

Mikhail, Ossama; Eberwein, Curtis J.; Handa, Jagdish - EconWPA - 2003

A vital implication of unemployment persistence applies to the Bank of Canada's disinflation policies since it …

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On the Evidence of Non-Linear Structure in Canadian Unemployment.

Mikhail, Ossama; Eberwein, Curtis J.; Handa, Jagdish - EconWPA - 2003

In this paper, we focus on and examine the empirical evidence of non- linearity in aggregate Canadian unemployment. Contrary to the conclusion reached in Murray et al. (1993), and using a corrected for bias simple non-parametric test (SNT), we reject the null hypothesis of a linear structure for...

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The Efficiency of Canadian Capital Markets: Some Bank of Canada Research

Hendry, Scott; King, Michael R. - EconWPA - 2004

Bank of Canada is interested in the efficient functioning of capital markets through each of its responsibilities for … conducted thus far suggests that Canadian capital markets are efficient for a capital market of Canada's size but are less …

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Understanding Social Capital: Its Nature and Manifestiations in Rural Canada

Reimer, Bill - EconWPA - 2005

each type. Using national community and household data collected as part of a research project on rural Canada (The New …

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Democracy of Pressure Groups

Bhandari, Jayant - EconWPA - 2003

trying to force their views on others. The report refutes comments made against businesses, globalization, privatization, and …

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INCOME CONVERGENCE DURING THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE WORLD ECONOMY 1919-39

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003

Some economists have argued that the process of disintegration of the world economy between the two World Wars led to income divergence between the countries. This is in keeping with the view that economic integration leads to income convergence. The paper shows that the view that the period...

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The Influence of Globalization on Taxes and Social Policy – an Empirical Analysis for OECD Countries

Dreher, Axel - EconWPA - 2003

Using panel regression for the period 1970-2000 the paper analyzes whether globalization has influenced the OECD … endogeneity of the regressors, the results show that globalization (measured by an index covering 23 variables) did not generally … decrease the leeway for independent economic policy. Globalization even increased implicit tax rates on capital (as calculated …

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