In Canada, freight rates on exports of grains and oilseeds from the prairie region have been regulated since 1897. Until the 1960s, the stability and assurance of these rates contributed to development of the prairie-based grains economy. However, in recent years, these regulated rates have...

This paper uses Johansen’s co-integration analysis and a vector error-correction model to investigate the relationship between economic growth, export growth, export instability and gross fixed capital formation (investment) in India during the period 1971- 2005. The empirical results suggest...