Since its inception in the Canadian agricultural policy landscape, supply management in the dairy sector has generated interest from various stakeholders. The system has been severely criticized by opponents and strongly defended by proponents, both within and outside of Canada. There is no...

Cet article présente les résultats de recherches en économie expérimentale visant à mesurer les propensions à payer d'un échantillon de consommateurs français pour des yaourts fonctionnels. Nous mesurons l'impact de l'information concernant les caractéristiques fonctionnelles des...

Using sustainable tourism indicators (STI) creates many difficulties resulting mainly from the multiple interpretations of the concept of sustainable development, and by extension of the concept of sustainable tourism. To these difficulties are added an absence of a strong academic background,...

We show that confidence regions covering the identified set may be preferable to confidence regions covering each of its points in robust control applications.

Regression models sometimes contain a linear parametric part and a part obtained by reducing the dimension of a larger set of data. This paper considers properties of estimates of the interpretable parameters of the model, in a general setting in which a potentially unbounded set of other...

En 2010, le taux de chômage des immigrants de 15 à 64 ans atteignait 12,4 % au Québec, comparativement à 10,4 % en Ontario et à 8,8 % en Colombie-Britannique. Par ailleurs, le rapport entre le taux de chômage des immigrants et celui des natifs était de 1,7 au Québec, 1,3 en Ontario et...

In 2010, the unemployment rate among immigrants aged 15 to 64 was 12.4 % in Quebec, compared to 10.4 % in Ontario and 8.8 % in British Columbia. The ratio of the unemployment rates of immigrants to those of the Canadian born was 1.7 in Quebec, 1.3 in Ontario, and 1.2 in British Columbia. The...

In the field of economics, a vast literature has attributed the rise of global value chains to globalization-related forces such as declining costs of transportation, improvements in communications technology, and institutional and policy reforms in developing countries. Through an in-depth...

Latin America has a rich history of financial crises. However, it was relatively unharmed by the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC). This paper investigates why, and in particular the role of commodity prices and its institutional framework - in line with the fourth generation financial...

We model capacity-building investments in a homogeneous product duopoly facing uncertain demand growth. Capacity building is achieved through the addition of production units that are durable and lumpy and whose cost is irreversible. While building their capacity over time, firms compete à la...