[...]Inflation targeting in Canada was not the result oflegislation. However, as in New Zealand, the inflationtarget in Canada is jointly determined and announcedby both the government and the central bank.[...]

This paper summarises the developments of road pricing in USA and Canada.

We examine the publications of authors affiliated with an economics research institution in Canada in (i) the Top-10 journals in economics according to journals’ impact factors, and (ii) the Canadian Journal of Economics. We consider all publications in the even years from 1980 to 2000....

[...]This study assesses what actually happened—that is,whether well-paid jobs have been disappearing in Canada inrecent years.[...]

Die zehn der Europäischen Union 2004 beigetretenen Mitgliedsländer werden nach einer nominalen Konvergenz und der Erfüllung der Konvergenzkriterien von Maastricht der Europäischen Währungsunion beitreten. Um ein hohes Maß an Konvergenz zu erreichen, verfolgen die neuen Mitgliedsländer...

Die Globalisierung zeigt sowohl positive als auch negative Ausiwirkungen auf die Steuersysteme. Positive Effekte ergeben sich aus dem Wirtschaftswachstum und manifestieren sich in der erweiterten Fiskalbasis...

The U.S. dollar holds a dominant place in the invoicing of international trade, along two complementary dimensions. First, most U.S. exports and imports invoiced in dollars. Second, trade flows that donot involve the United States are also substantially invoiced in dollars, an aspect that has...

Central bankers’ conventional wisdom suggests that nominal interest rates should be raised to implement a lower inflation target. In contrast, I show that the standard New Keynesian monetary model predicts that nominal interest rates should bedecreased to attain this goal. Real interest rates,...