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Using cross-country data, this paper investigates the relationship between workplace representation and strikes. Works councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors, such union-dominated councils experience greater...
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this analysis, we use patent citations as a proxy for the innovation effort by the acquirer. Our main result is to show … that acquisition increases the innovation effort of the acquirer but only temporarily. After 1.5 year, there is no longer a … significant impact of the acquisition on the acquirer’s innovation effort. This decline is relatively larger when the acquired …
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Engel and Rogers (1996) find that crossing the US-Canada border can considerably raise relative price volatility and …
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We examine the quantitative predictions of heterogeneous firm models à la Melitz (2003) in the context of the Canada …
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the data. Exploring the determinants of Canada's tariff cuts at the 8 digit HS product level, we find that CUSFTA acted as …
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viewpoint of the foreign country. Calibrating the model to match industry-level data in the U.S. and Canada, we show that at …
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Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...
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,rather than exchange rate regimes and questions of policy credibility and political accountability are crucial. Canada's recent … performance are assessed. The most economically attractive among alternative monetary orders, the adoption by Canada of the US … politically attainable. Intermediate arrangements are unattractive and clearly inferior to Canada's current monetary order. …
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Canada-US regional data, we structurally estimate the model and simulate the impacts of removing all trade barriers generated … by the Canada-US border. We find that Canadian average labor productivity increases by 8.03%, whereas US average labor …
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We present results for two contingent valuation surveys conducted in Hamilton, Canada and the US to elicit WTP for …
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