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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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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...
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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 …
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Two Different Conflicts in Federal Systems : An Application to Canada
Mintz, Jack - 2019
Canada's federation …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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Effects of corporate tax reforms on SMEs' investment decisions under the particular consideration of inflation
Nam, Chang Woon; Radulescu, Doina Maria - 2005
Corporate tax reforms carried out in EU countries since 1980 entail lower statutory tax rates and reductions in generous tax depreciation provisions. Several countries including the UK have reduced tax rates for SMEs. This study compares incentive effects of such reforms on the SMEs? investment...
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The savings-inflation puzzle
Heer, Burkhard; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2006
We find that inflation did not unanimously decrease savings in the US during the postwar period. This result is …
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Real convergence, price level convergence and inflation differentials in Europe
Égert, Balázs - 2007
root of different inflation rates in Europe including the EU-27. Among others, we study the structural and cyclical factors … descriptive statistics. Subsequently, we set out the possible mismatches between price level convergence and inflation rates … factors on observed inflation rates first in an accounting framework and then by relying on panel estimations. Our estimation …
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