Using disaggregated data at the HS ten-digit level, this paper computes Canada’s intensive and extensive margins in the U.S. market with reference to the Rest of the World, the European Union, China, and Japan. The empirical findings for the 1992-2012 period show that Canada’s intensive...

International trade in high-technology products has been increasing at a rate faster than overall trade and world output. This paper examines whether trade in high-technology products has been associated with increased concentration of trade among a few countries. The paper explores market...

Using cross-section data in regression analysis, this paper examines the relationship between per capita real GDP and the human development index in high, medium and low human development countries. The sensitivity of the human development index to changes in per capita GDP is found to be...

Based on cross-section data, this paper explores the relationship between economic freedom and the economic performance of low, middle and high income countries. The regression results show that there is a direct relationship between the economic freedom index and per capita income in low income...

This paper explores trade relations between Canada and China which differ considerably in factor endowments. It focuses on Canada’s export- and import concentration and intra-industry trade involving China. The findings show that Canada’s exports to China are far more concentrated compared...

This paper investigates the effects of a bilateral free trade agreement between Canada and the European Union and the effects of a free trade agreement between the European Union and NAFTA on various trade related variables in NAFTA countries, the European Union , and other countries. The paper...

The 'surprise' consumption function is estimated for selected industrial countries (France, Germany, Japan, and the USA) and four high-growth East Asian countries (Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan). The main objective of the paper is to test Hall's (1978) hypothesis that the rate of...

This paper examines time-series properties of economic growth and its key determinants for South Korea and India. The paper adopts a non-parametric method suggested by Cochrane (1988) and used by Campbell and Mankiw (1987) and Romer (1991), among others, to measure the persistence of economic...

This paper examines the export performance of Vietnam based on US imports. The empirical analysis of the paper is based on US imports from Vietnam at the two? and ten?digit levels for the 1994?2011 period. The paper examines the composition of exportsfrom Vietnam, the degree of concentration of...