Scrutiny at the Canadian border to heighten security and simultaneously reduce type one (false positives) and type two … (false negatives) errors utilize substantial resources as well as imposing opportunity costs on Canada in terms of time and … trade diversion. One maligned strategy to minimize these costs at the border has been group or racial profiling. This essay …

as an instrument for investment in cattle. We find average returns in the order of -2% at the mean, but they vary across …

positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects …,300 suggesting that in some respects investment subsidies can be cost effective. …

dynamics as investment conditions are similar. Our results are consistent with this hypothesis. Furthermore, there is no …

in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … investment and, subsequently, lower employment and productivity growth. There is little evidence that unionization leads to … higher rates of business failure. Given the decline in U.S. private sector unionism, I explore avenues through which …

banking development reduces the cash flow sensitivity of fixed investment spending, particularly for small firms, and that it …

(favorable) impact on investment. …

We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker … coefficients. They are robust to model specifications and estimation methods. The evidence that investment has a long-run effect on …