Using data from Statistics Canada and Human Resources Development Canada the paper describes the provincial trends in university student migration, tuition fees and accomodation costs over the period 1972-73 to 1996-97. A multinomial logit model was estimated to determine the importance of...

Canada's Pacific salmon fisheries are again in a crisis of declining stocks, excess fishing effort and poor returns. Changes in fisheries management which may help resolve some of these problems include licence buy-backs, individual transferable quotas, additional effort controls, single gear...

The paper uses a model of the North and South to predict emissions of Carbon dioxide, atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, global mean temperature, and payoffs in terms of cumulative GDP less policy costs and policy damages from climate change. The model is used to simulate to 2100 the...

The British Columbia halibut fishery provides a natural experiment of the effects of "privatizing the commons". Using firm-level data from the fishery two years before private harvesting rights were introduced, the year they were implemented and three years afterwards, a stochastic frontier is...