The purpose of this study is twofold: (1) to examine which municipal governments are net beneficiaries of the Ontario programme of intergovernmental transfers and (2) to determine whether distribution of grants equitably reflects differences amongst municipal units.

Considerable attention has been focused on the relationship between transportation costs and land values in urban areas, but little research has been conducted on the other factors that affect land values. The study in this paper should concentrate on any one of a number of different types of...

This paper outlines a workable statistical model which circumvents some of the severe institutional problems which exist at the disaggregate individual industry level. In addition, this model should permit the generation of useful sectoral information for the refinement of aggregate analysis.

This paper presents some results of a study which develops and tests an econometric model of the Canadian automotive manufacturing industry. Annual behaviour over the 1948-1964 period is examined by utilizing eighteen stochastic equations and four major identities. The research strategy follows...

During the past decade, a considerable amount of econometric research has been devoted to the explanation of movements in wages. Most empirical studies have used a basic disequilibrium model, first suggested by Philips, in which the change in money wage rates is related to the level of...