Montreal is today largely a regional business service centre, serving the Province of Quebec. Service exports outside the Province and outside Canada are relatively few, at least for the sectors studied. The size of the business service sector in Montreal, compared to that of Toronto, appears...

Interregional and international trade in services are in part composed of intra-firm transactions, which in general are difficult to quantify. Using original survey data for a Quebec region, the author attemps to measure intra-firm transactions for a set of twenty-four business services,...

Tertiary activity is rapidly growing in all industrialized nations: it already accounts for almost two third of Canada's (and Québec's) total production and employment. It thus becomes increasingly reasonable to think that many service activities are becoming autonomous agents of economic...

The authors analyse structural changes in the Montreal economy (1971-1981), establishing comparisons with other urban areas in North America, most notably with Toronto and Vancouver. The authors observe that although manufacturing employment has grown more slowly in Montreal than in Toronto,...

Urban and regional economists are often asked to construct central place models which will properly describe the urban hierarchy (in terms of the service sector) of the region which they are studying. In all such studies, the chief analytical problem is basically one of correctly defining (and...

In this paper, the authors propose a framework which enables them to analyse the economic impact of new highway links between Montreal and eleven surrounding cities, specifically the impact on the economic structure of those cities. The authors observe a relationship between changes in...