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Cost of Capital for the United States, Japan, and Canada : An Attempt at Measurement Based on Individual Company Records and Aggregate National Acccoun
Ando, Albert; Hancock, John; Sawchuk, Gary David - 2021
countries such as the US, Canada, and Japan. Attempts are made to carry out the measurement based both on the accounting records … depreciation and before taxes is found to fluctuate around 10-11% without a persistent trend. For Canada, the indivi- dual company … Canada supple- mented by some unpublished data supplied by Statistics Canada suggest that the cost of capital in Canada is …
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Unraveling the Productivity Growth Slowdown in the U.S., Canada and Japan : the Effects of Subequilibrium, Scale Economies and Markup
Morrison Paul, Catherine J. - 2021
Measures of productivity growth typically include in the Productivity "residual" the impacts of subequilibrium from fixity of factors, costs of adjustment, returns to scale and markups. This paper proposes a general two part framework for adjusting the residual measure to take these impacts into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213436
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Productivity Growth in the Automobile Industry, 1970-1980 : a Comparisonof Canada, Japan and the United States
Fuss, Melvyn - 2012
Canada, the U.S.and Japan. Utilizing an econometric cost function methodology, we are able to isolate the major source of … correct for this source of productivity change would have led to a 31% under estimate of long-run TFP growth in Canada arid a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755399
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The U.S. Japan Trade Imbalance from the Japanese Perspective
Sato, Ryuzo - 2022
By 1981, Japan achieved both internal and external equilibrium; exports and imports roughly balanced at sixteen percent …
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Defying Gravity : The 1932 Imperial Economic Conference and the Reorientation of Canadian Trade
Jacks, David S. - 2011
In the wake of the Great Depression, the Canadian government embarked on a stunning reversal in its commercial policy. A key element of its response was the promotion of intra-imperial trade at the Imperial Economic Conference of 1932. This paper addresses whether or not Canadian trade was able...
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Trade, Variety, and Immigration
Bo, Chen - 2012
geographic areas. We consider the case of Canada, document its impressive experience with import variety growth in the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108248
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Can Structural Small Open Economy Models Account for the Influence of Foreign Disturbances?
Justiniano, Alejandro - 2010
between Canada and U.S. are essentially zero. Both findings are at odds with the data. A specification that assumes correlated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758033
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Trade Flows and Exchange Rates : Importers, Exporters and Products
Devereux, Michael B. - 2019
Using highly-disaggregated transaction-level trade data, we document the importance of new firm-level trade partner relationships and the addition of new products to existing relationships in driving long-run import flows. Moreover, we find that these margins are sensitive to movements in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862055
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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?
Collins, William J.; O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, … - 2021
Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218517
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Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. And Canada : What Role for Financial Aid Policy?
Belley, Philippe - 2011
attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the U.S. and Canada using data from the 1997 Cohort of the National … income in Canada relative to the U.S., even after controlling for family background, adolescent cognitive achievement, and … generous to low-income youth than are Canadian policies. By contrast, Canada offers more generous aid to middle-class youth …
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