In this study, the nature and extent of efficiency and productivity growth in the US truckload (TL) carriers is investigated using non-parametric techniques. To analyse efficiency trends, a DEA window analysis is conducted on publicly available financial data with a representative sample of ten...

Porter hypothesis suggests tougher environmental regulations could spur technological growth, leading to an increase in productivity of market outputs, simultaneously providing greater environmental protection. This study tests the Porter hypothesis in US agriculture using state level data from...

Die Wehrgüterproduktion unterscheidet sich in verschiedener Hinsicht von den übrigen Produktionszweigen der deutschen Industrie. Dies beginnt schon damit, daß in der Bundesrepublik von einer wehrtechnischen Industrie nicht gesprochen werden kann, weil die meisten wehrgüterproduzierenden...

Analyses the impact of the ratification of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF).

In this article, Jeffrey I. Bernstein of Carleton University, Richard G. Harris from Simon Fraser University, and Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards provide a comprehensive analysis of the widening of the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour...

There is intense public interest in the role of universities as a source of science-based innovations. To increase our understanding of this role, this book compares the economic effects of university research in the United States and Japan--countries similar in economic and technological...

This study analyzes the long-term evolution of the North American pulp and paper industry, and offers a new synthesis of the dynamic forces that spearheaded the expansion and transformation of this large manufacturing industry. The evolution of the North American pulp and paper industry between...

Using a normalized CES function with factor-augmenting technical progress, we estimate a supply-side system of the US economy from 1953 to 1998. Avoiding potential estimation biases that have occurred in earlier studies and putting a high emphasis on the consistency of the data set, required by...