We estimate the effect of tax rebates offered by Canadian Provinces on the sales of Hybrid Electric Vehicles. We find that these rebates had a large and positive effect on the market share of hybrid vehicles and that Intermediate cars, Intermediate SUVs and some high performance compact cars...

In the late 1990s, the Canadian newspaper industry underwent rapid consolidation with a few conglomerates controlling the vast majority of daily papers. Over a 4 year period, about three-fourths of Canada s daily newspapers changed ownership. While the issue re-ceived considerable attention and...

We estimate the degree of trade diversion from provinces named under the Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) to provinces not named. Our regression results indicate that the SLA had a significant impact on the the exports of non-named SLA provinces. Controlling for other factors, the SLA by itself...