This paper looks at the size of public infrastructure in Canada, its main components, how it has evolved over the last 40 years, and the extent to which it has contributed to Canada's standard of living and the performance of Canadian businesses.

Dans ce document, on examine la taille des infrastructures publiques au Canada; leurs composantes principales; comment elles ont evolue au cours des 40 dernieres annees; et dans quelle mesure elles ont contribue a l'evolution du niveau de vie au Canada et a la performance des entreprises.

Roads, railways, bridges, water systems, power plants, telecommunication facilities, ports and airports are components of the infrastructure that are vital to the economic activity. Recently, the notion of infrastructure has become an important item of the Canadian public policy debate. This...

Work by Aschauer (1989) triggered a debate in the United States on the role played by public capital in determining productivity and growth; more recently, infrastructure has become an issue in the Canadian public policy debate. This paper sheds some light on this debate by addressing three...

Dans le present document, nous examinons la courbe de rentabilite des grandes entreprises residant au Canada durant la periode de 1990 a 1998. Notre examen porte d'abord sur les differences entre la rentabilite des entreprises sous controle canadien et celle des entreprises sous controle...

In recent years there has been considerable international interest in key indicators. This paper surveys recent Canadian attempts to develop key indicators of economic, social, environmental or physical well-being. It classifies and discusses over forty such projects and publications in detail;...

Au cours des dernieres annees, on s'est beaucoup interesse sur la scene internationale aux indicateurs cles. Le present document se veut un tour d'horizon des efforts deployes recemment au Canada en vue d'elaborer des indicateurs cles du bien etre economique, social, environnemental et physique....

This paper examines the course of profitability of large Canadian-resident enterprises over the period 1990-98. It focuses first on the differences in the profitability of Canadian-controlled and U.S.-controlled enterprises and asks whether there are differences in trends in profitability by...

This paper uses a detailed industry-level data base of industry prices in the manufacturing sector in Canada and the United States to investigate whether prices are co-integrated in the two countries and whether the relationship between the two sets of prices follows the law of one price. We...