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Nous examinons si la liberalisation des echanges influe sur la rentabilite et le levier financier a l'aide de donnees canadiennes de la periode ayant suivi l'entree en vigueur de l'Accord de libre-echange entre le Canada et les Etats-Unis. Nous constatons que, en cas de reduction des tarifs...
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Recent studies have shown that companies with relatively high debt-to-asset (leverage) ratios exhibit more variability in investment and employment patterns. Other studies argue that high aggregate corporate leverage is associated with macroeconomic instability. This paper establishes and...
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We investigate whether trade liberalization affects profitability and financial leverage, using Canadian data from the period following implementation of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. We find that falling domestic tariffs are associated with declining profits and increasing leverage for...
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On s'interroge beaucoup pour savoir si les agents formulent des anticipations rationnelles par rapport a des variables ou s'ils commettent plutot des erreurs systematiques de jugement. Dans ce document, on evalue des modeles pour des donnees d'enquete a l'echelon de l'etablissement afin de...
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Des etudes recentes ont montre que les compagnies dont le ratio emprunts/capitaux propres est relativement eleve manifestent une plus grande variabilite pour ce qui est des investissements et de la main-d'oeuvre. D'autres etudes maintiennent qu'un effet de levier financier eleve dans le monde...
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Le present article resume les conclusions de le document de recherche intitulee: Liberalisation des echanges, rentabilite et capitaux d'emprunt. L'evolution de la politique internationale du commerce peut avoir une incidence sur les decisions relatives aux capitaux d'emprunt, c'est a-dire...
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This article summarizes findings from the research paper entitled: Trade liberalization, profitability, and financial leverage. Changes in international trade policy may influence financial leverage, the relative importance of debt as opposed to equity in financing the firm, expressed by a...
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There is much debate over whether agents form rational expectations of variables or whether they suffer from systematic errors in judgment. This paper estimates models for plant-level survey data in order to test rationality for those manufacturing plants that report expectations of capital...
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La presente etude s?appuie sur des donnees provenant de la base de donnees du Programme d?analyse longitudinale de l?emploi de Statistique Canada pour examiner la distribution des taux de croissance de l?emploi au Canada de 2000 a 2009, en se concentrant surtout sur les entreprises situees dans...
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This paper uses data from Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Employment Analysis Program database to study the distribution of annual employment growth rates in Canada over the 2000-to-2009 period, with a special emphasis on firms in the tails of the distribution, referred to here as High-Growth...
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