costs, and productivity growth). It finds that both forces exert important influences on Canadian prices. The responses …

foreign (U.S.) influences (the law of one price), as opposed to domestic factors (i.e., labour, energy costs and productivity … and the law-of-one-price rule: both domestic factors (such as input prices and productivity) and foreign factors (such as …. (3) Industry differences exist. Domestic prices respond more to productivity changes in industries where competition is …

This paper describes the patterns of firm entry and exit across provinces in Canada, the relationship of these patterns … to differences in industrial structure and the response of firm entry and exit to changes in the economic environment …. Firm entry and exit play an important role in shaping industrial structure and dynamics. Although entry and exit are …

the extent to which improvements in the performance of an entry cohort are the result of a selection process that culls … incumbent firms. Both selection and evolutionary learning are related to post-entry performance. Despite the difference in the … effect of selection and learning on the amount of post-entry growth, selection per se is a more important contributor to …

productivity growth in the manufacturing sector over the three periods. Plant turnover makes a significant contribution to … productivity growth as more productive entrants replace exiting plants that are less productive. A disproportionately large … fraction of the contribution of plant turnover to productivity growth is due to multi-plant or foreign-controlled firms closing …