any precision. This paper offers the first analysis ofthat role using data since 1890 for Canada, Japan, and the United …

attention to the effect of the U.S.-Canada free trade agreement on market integration. Our conclusions are unchanged: markets in … the U.S. and Canada are more segmented than can be explained by the physical distance between the two locations. Formal …

We survey the recent experiences of three industrial countries -- New Zealand, Canada, and the United Kingdom -- that … tended to exceed long-term targets throughout the first several years of targeting. For New Zealand and Canada, survey data …

At a macroeconomic level, infrastructure and productivity are positively correlated in the United States and other … infrastructure to productivity, or the reverse. This paper focuses on roads, and finds that vehicle-intensive industries benefit … disproportionately from road-building: when road growth changes, productivity growth changes more in industries that are more vehicle …

countries. The paper begins by surveying earlier estimates of relative productivity and unit labor cost levels and evaluating … productivity translated into dollars at purchasing power parity exchange rates. These estimates are compared with results obtained …

Productivity rises in booms and falls in recessions. There are four main explanations for procyclical productivity: (i … are particularly important in explaining procyclical productivity. We argue that the reallocation effects that we identify …

Explanations of procyclical productivity playa key role in a variety of business-cycle models. Most of these models … aggregate productivity changes into several terms, each of which has an economic interpretation. However, many of these tenus …