Canada, the U.S.and Japan. Utilizing an econometric cost function methodology, we are able to isolate the major source of … correct for this source of productivity change would have led to a 31% under estimate of long-run TFP growth in Canada arid a …

countries such as the US, Canada, and Japan. Attempts are made to carry out the measurement based both on the accounting records … depreciation and before taxes is found to fluctuate around 10-11% without a persistent trend. For Canada, the indivi- dual company … Canada supple- mented by some unpublished data supplied by Statistics Canada suggest that the cost of capital in Canada is …

Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while …

This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …

This study examines the relationship between Japan's manufactured exports to individual markets and the economic …. First, the relationships between Japanese export levels and employment in foreign affiliates of Japanese MNCs are analyzed … in the context of a typical gravity model explaining the cross-country variation of Japan's manufacturing exports. Second …

We develop a simple model of the choice between exploiting a technology in another country via export and via direct … opposite tendency. Taking population, per capita income, factor endowments, and distance into account, we find Japan to be more …