Dans cet article, on etudie les determinants de la reussite ou de l'echec des etablissements canadiens sur les marches etrangers a l'aide des donnees du Registre des exportateurs canadiens de Statistique Canada de 1993 a 2000. L'etude des taux de survie et de risque des etablissements...

This paper uses the 1993 to 2000 Exporter Registry of Statistics Canada to study the factors determining the success or exit of Canadian establishments on foreign markets. The survival analysis model is adopted to study the survival and hazard rates of exporting establishments, with the Cox...

This study tests the market efficiency hypothesis for coffee and cocoa futures using daily data for contracts with a maturity of 2 and 6 months. The hypothesis is tested sequentially. The first condition is that future spot and futures prices be cointegrated. If this condition is maintained,...

Computer technologies have evolved very rapidly and, compared to other businesses, farm operations have been slow to adopt computer applications. This paper investigates the key characteristics of the farm operators and farm businesses that influence computer use. To that end, data from...