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This paper asks whether synergies or managerial discipline operates in different ways across small versus large plants to affect the likelihood of mergers. Our findings indicate that those characteristics which provide the type of synergies upon which ownership changes rely are important factors...
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aggregate productivity growth. This paper extends our understanding of industry differences in the competitive process by … examining firm turnover and productivity growth in various services industries in Canada and situating them relative to … entrants are relatively large at birth, the penalty for entry at suboptimal size or productivity is higher. The reallocation …
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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 …
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costs, and productivity growth). It finds that both forces exert important influences on Canadian prices. The responses …
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This paper studies the impact that a small country joining a regional trade agreement, but particularly a small country, might be expected to gain from the exploitation of scale economies. It makes use of the experience of Canada when it entered into the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement...
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Plant deaths arise from failure when firms exit an industry. Plant deaths are also associated with renewal when incumbent firms close down plants and modernize their production facilities and start-up new plants. The rate of plant deaths affects the amount of change that occurs in labour and...
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This paper examines head office employment in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It focuses on the characteristics that are related to the creation of a head office and the amount of employment in that head office. Among the characteristics investigated are firm size, number of plants,...
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This paper examines the effect of trade liberalization on plant scale, production-run length and product diversification. We first develop a model of trade in differentiated products with multiproduct plants. We then present empirical evidence using a large panel of Canadian manufacturing plants...
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