Canada presented its Written Follow-Up to the Phase 2 Report, outlining its responses to the Recommendations adopted by the Working Group on Bribery (WGB), at the March 2006 meeting of the WGB. Since its evaluation under Phase 2, Canada has taken important steps in a number of areas to implement...

Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970's vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...

Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. immigrants. This skill deficit for U.S. immigrants arises primarily because the United States receives a much larger share of...