It is generally accepted that convergence is well established for regional Canadian per capita outputs. The authors present evidence that long-run movements are driven by two stochastic common trends in this time series. This evidence casts doubt on the convergence hypothesis for Canada. Another...

I show that the process of Canadian economic growth differs across disaggregates (provinces and industries), with little mobility in the cross-section ordering, ie the poor stay poor and the rich stay rich. In the steady-state, industry disaggregates display divergence. I find that a...

Exchange rates have raised the ire of economists for more than 20 years. The problem is that few, if any, exchange rate models are known to systematically beat a naive random walk in out of sample forecasts. Engel and West (2005) show that these failures can be explained by the standard-present...