productivity, while import liberalization has ambiguous effects. Resource misallocation can either amplify, dampen or reverse the … productivity gains. Guided by theory, we provide evidence consistent with these effects operating through reallocations across … firms in the presence of distortions: (i) Both export and import expansion increase average firm productivity, but the …

Canada in 2018, with increasing stringency over time to reduce emissions. Canadian provinces and territories have the … price by itself appears well short of what will be needed by 2030 for Canada's Paris Agreement pledge …

sectors are weighed down by the structural barriers that have depressed productivity more broadly. Italy’s future …

productivity in Canada. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its predecessor, the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement …This paper examines the effect of the major Canada-U.S. trade agreements on the dynamics of business cycles and … business cycles in Canada and the United States since the early 1980s, country-specific and idiosyncratic factors remain …

This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is … underlying cause of the pickup in productivity in Canada and the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States … based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment …

The paper investigates how changes in industries'' funding costs affect total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Based … distort the allocation of factors across firms even within an industry, reducing its TFP. The decline in productivity growth …

The paper investigates how changes in industries'' funding costs affect total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Based …