This study estimates the impact of the municipal groupings between 1992 and 2000 upon municipalities's wage bill in Quebec. Our identification strategy is based on a wage bill reduced form model and the specification of the grouping participation process. The three following methods are used in...

This study evaluates the impact of the parental contribution—introduced during the welfare reform of 1989—on rates of participation in social assistance. From a statistical perspective, this reform allows us to identify a control group comprising single individuals aged 30 and older. Our...

This note briefly describes regression discontinuity method which estimates program impact when participation depends upon a treshhold value of a selection variable. The program evaluation impact might be done in a 2-step strategy. First, one graphically analyze the relation between the...

In this study, we propose a generalization of the error component formulation to model the correlation among the errors of a regression based on travel flow data. The error term is broken down into a sum of one component related to the origin zone, one component related to the destination zone...

Este ensayo es una aproximación a la manera eficiente de seleccionar al universo de contribuyentes y asi obtener la muestra ideal que nos permita tener resultados eficaces al momento de someterlos a una fiscalización, trata de determinar los indicadores microeconomicos más relevantes para...

The diffusion of health care technology is influenced by both the total market share of managed care organizations as well as the level of competition among them. This paper differentiates between HMO penetration and competition and examines their relationship to the adoption of cardiac...

Fictitious play is the oldest and most studied learning process for games. Since the already classical result for zero-sum games, convergence of beliefs to the set of Nash equilibria has been established for some important classes of games, including weighted potential games, supermodular games...

In most of the land tenancy literature the type of contract is exogenous. Also even though these contracts vary a lot among farms, between regions and over time, the theoretical literature has not always acknowledged this idiosyncrasy. Building on the strategic bargaining theory initiated by...