There is considerable merit in thinking of the modern multidivisional corporation as an economy within itself. There is an important similarity between the interaction of divisions within a corporation and the perfectly competitive economic model formulated by Leon Walras1. When we look at...

This paper presents a multiregional intertemporal linear programming model of Canadian gold and base metals production and several sets of empirical results demonstrating its analytical potential. To our knowledge, this is the first national model of Canadian mineral production exhibiting...