This paper presents, for models based on time series data, a method of estimation to take into account errors in the variables, when these errors are not autocorrelated. The suggested approach utilizes shifted values of the independent variables as instruments. We use Fuller's (1987) consistent...

Economists have long been interested in different aspects of education such as, the measure of its output, the analysis of the determinants of scholarly achievement or the pedagogical approach. This study stands within the same lines of preoccupations. Indeed, it tries to find out whether some...

Thoughts inspired by a fable written by Georges Duhamel entitled "Les Confitures", on the difficulties encountered by economists responsible for performing cost benefit analyses as well as on their role in society. Réflexions à partir d’une fable de Georges Duhamel intitulée « Les...

This paper presents a capital coefficient matrix for replacement and a capital coefficient matrix for expansion, for the Quebec economy disaggregated into 29 industrial sectors. The computations are based on data for the 1972-1976 period.

In his presidential address to the Société Canadienne de Science Economique, at the 1978 meeting, the author had chosen to talk about the organizational problems of the Société because of the pressing nature of the situation. Should the author have decided to discuss issues related to the...