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Globalization and Empire: Market integration and international trade between Canada, the United States and Britain, 1750-1870
Pedersen, Maja Uhre; Geloso, Vincent; Sharp, Paul - 2020
'exogenous' events such as war. This paper adds Canada to this story by looking at trade and price data, as well as contemporary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669553
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Living standards in Lower Canada, 1831
Geloso, Vincent; Kufenko, Vadim; Villeneuve, Remy - 2016
This paper uses the price and wage data contained in the 1831 census of Lower Canada to provide regional estimates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542091
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Monopsony and industrial development in nineteenth century Quebec : the impact of seigneurial tenure
Arsenault Morin, Alex; Geloso, Vincent; Kufenko, Vadim - 2016
data from the 1831 and 1851 Lower Canada censuses. We find strong evidence that this difference in tenure partially … explains the gap in industrial development between Quebec and the neighboring colony of Ontario. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542099
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Malthusian pressures : empirical evidence from a frontier economy
Geloso, Vincent; Kufenko, Vadim - 2015
In this paper we study Malthusian pressures in a frontier economy. Using the empirical data on the real prices and demographic variables from 1688 to 1860 for Quebec and Montreal, we test for the existence of Malthusian pressures. Bearing in mind the particularities of frontier economies and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487538
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Demographic change and regional convergence in Canada
Geloso, Vincent; Kufenko, Vadim; Prettner, Klaus - 2016
We examine the role of demographic change for regional convergence in living standards in Canada. Due to economies of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499720
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Infant mortality and the role of seigneurial tenure in Canada East, 1851
Morin, Alex Arsenault; Geloso, Vincent; Kufenko, Vadim - 2015
This paper aims to explain differences in infant mortality across the colony of Quebec, known in the 1850s as Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405532
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Did Separatism Hurt Quebec's Economy? The Causal Effects of the Election of the Parti Québécois in 1976
Geloso, Vincent - 2019
Most separatist movements overlap with ethnic tensions and are associated with violent and economically destructive outcomes. In this paper, we consider a (largely) peaceful separatist movement. Specifically, we use the synthetic control method to study the economic consequences of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896599
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Supply Management and Household Poverty in Canada
Desrochers, Pierre - 2017
The regulation of the Canadian dairy and poultry industries through production quotas (also known as supply management) is widely believed to result in higher consumer prices that disproportionately impact poorer households. Using the most recent Survey of Labor and Income Dynamics (2011), we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942633
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Was Economic Growth Likely in Lower Canada?
Bédard, Mathieu - 2017
Generally, the historical literature presents the period from 1817 to 1851 in Lower Canada (modern day Quebec) as one … over whether or not Lower Canada enjoyed a positive rate of economic growth. The only question remaining is why it was … slower than that of the United States and the rest of Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968367
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The Wild Card : Colonial Paper Money in French North America, 1685 to 1719
Cutsinger, Bryan - 2020
During the colonial era, the French colonial government in Canada experimented with paper money printed on the back of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012854090