between Japan and the USA. The results indicate that high-frequency finance data can reveal the existence of long-term PPP …

between Japan and the USA. The results indicate that high-frequency finance data can reveal the existence of long-term PPP …

, Japan, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and the USA, between 1970 and 2010. We find that foreign direct investment, trade openness … openness, using panel-VAR methods in relation to ten significant OECD countries: Austria, Canada, Finland, Iceland, Ireland …

The objective of this paper is to document the evolution of the Canada-U.S. labour productivity gap and to offer an … productivity levels is in contrast to the typical focus on the gap between productivity growth rates in Canada and the United … States. The paper finds that Canada’s level of output per person employed was 81.0 per cent of the U.S. level in 2002. This …

Historically, per capita income in the United States has exceeded those in Canada and this difference has reflected … Canada and discuss possible explanation of the gap. He points out that based on average weekly hours estimates from the U ….S. household survey, total economy output per hour in Canada in 2002 was 89 per cent of the U.S. level, compared to 81 per cent …

After accelerating in the second half of the 1990s, aggregate labour productivity growth in Canada has fallen off … of productivity growth in the United States and the apparent strength of most productivity drivers in Canada. Factors … growth; and higher commodity prices. But the authors argue that in recent years Canada has suffered no major macroeconomic …

A key objective of economic policy in Canada is to reduce the productivity gap with the United States. The development … industry dimensions. Unfortunately, statistical agencies do not currently produce estimates of Canada-U.S. productivity gaps by … industry. To fill this data lacuna, Someshwar Rao, Jianmin Tang, and Weimin Wang of Industry Canada in the first article …

between average and best-practice efficiency of plants in the manufacturing industries of the United States, Canada, Great … Britain, Australia, Japan, and Korea. They show that the resulting measures of industrial efficiency can be used to test many …