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Products and provinces : a disaggregated panel analysis of Canada's manufacturing exports
Agur, Itai - 2016
The waning of the commodity boom places renewed emphasis on manufacturing as an engine for Canadian growth. However, Canadian manufacturing exports have been relatively stagnant since 2000. While the exchange rate depreciation over the past two years has energized export growth, the response has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715425
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Shocks, financial dependence, and efficiency : evidence from U.S. and Canadian industries
Estevão, Marcelo M.; Severo, Tiago - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009423208
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Shocks, Financial Dependence, and Efficiency : Evidence From U.S. and Canadian Industries
Estevão, Marcello M. - 2011
The paper investigates how changes in industries'' funding costs affect total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398575
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Economic Integration, Business Cycle, and Productivity in North America
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400637
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Tales From Two Neighbors : Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States
Cerisola, Martin D. - 2000
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403518
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When gambling for resurrection is too risky
Kirti, Divya - 2017
Rather than taking on more risk, US insurers hit hard by the crisis pulled back from risk taking, relative to insurers not hit as hard by the crisis. Capital requirements alone do not explain this risk reduction: insurers hit hard reduced risk within assets with identical regulatory treatment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705355
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Recording Insurance Transactions in the Balance of Payments
Harper, Peter - 1995
Insurance enterprises provide services, called insurance services, to policyholders. The values of such services are seldom, if ever, directly apparent; rather these values are implicitly entwined within the payment of premiums. This paper discusses the treatment of insurance services, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398144
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Some Considerations Relevant to Prefunded Pensions in France
Levy, Joaquim Vieira Ferreira - 1995
Increasing use of life insurance instruments and company-sponsored funds in France suggests that French households may be inclined to a greater reliance on financial savings as a source of retirement income. This paper examines the challenges imposed by an aging population on the pay-as-you-go...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398186
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Korea's growth prospects : overcoming demographics and COVID-19
Swiston, Andrew - 2021
time, industry-level analysis suggests ample scope to raise productivity, especially in services where productivity gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604751
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The macroeconomic impacts of digitalization in Sub-Saharan Africa : evidence from submarine cables
Simione, Félix F.; Li, Yiruo - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605015