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Telecommunication Submarine-Cable Deployment and the Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cariolle, Joel - 2020
The recent deployment of fibre-optic submarine cables (SMCs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raised the prospects for the digital economy expansion and the whole sub-continent take-off, but also exposed countries and populations to new sources of vulnerability. This paper provides empirical evidence...
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Understanding Monetary Policy and its Effects : Evidence from Canadian Firms Using the Business Outlook Survey
Verstraete, Matthieu - 2018
Using real time data, we show that the monetary policy rule in Canada is better described by a Taylor rule augmented … Canada’s quarterly Business Outlook Survey, we study the impact of monetary policy on firms’ expectations of sales and prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908682
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Political Competitiveness and Fiscal Structure : A Time Series Analysis. Canada, 1870 - 2015
Ferris, J Stephen - 2018
relation to Canada’s fiscal structure. By fiscal structure we mean three distinct but interrelated fiscal dimensions of the …
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Two Different Conflicts in Federal Systems : An Application to Canada
Mintz, Jack - 2019
Canada's federation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892290
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Putting Canada in the Penalty Box : Trade and Welfare Effects of Eliminating NAFTA
Baier, Scott L. - 2019
threat President Trump has made if the proposed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement is not passed by the U.S. Congress. We … the biggest loser; Canada is the biggest loser. Canada's welfare (per capita income) loss of 2.11 percent is nearly two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866366
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Alternatives to Paying Child Benefit to the Rich : Means Testing or Higher Tax?
Apps, Patricia F. - 2020
Transferring public benefits to people in no need of them appears to be a waste of public money. Thus, there seems to be support for a move away from universal child benefits and towards means testing. This study presents a critique of this overly-simplistic view and proposes a very simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828975
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A Dynamic Model of Political Party Equilibrium : The Evolution of ENP in Canada, 1870-2015
Ferris, J Stephen - 2020
entry and exit of candidates and parties are analyzed for Canada from 1870 through 2015 first using an auto …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829328
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The Empire Project : Trade Policy in Interwar Canada
Lampe, Markus; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Reiter, Lorenz; … - 2023
This paper uses a new dataset on the universe of Canadian imports and tariffs between 1924 and 1936, disaggregated into 1697 goods originating in 112 countries, to analyse the impact on Canadian imports of interwar Canadian trade policy, including the 1932 Ottawa trade agreements. Rather than...
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Regulating national firms in a common market
Biancini, Sara - 2008
We consider the regulation of national firms in a common market. Regulators can influence the production of national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264297
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The demands for environmental regulation and for trade in the presence of private mitigation
Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2008
We study the nature of individual demands for environmental regulation and for trade openness in the general … respect to the stringency of regulation. Moreover, even though trade has the potential to benefit everyone, the poor may … oppose trade openness because of a concern that laxer environmental regulation will then be imposed in the interest of the …
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