In 1914, Henri Pirenne argued that, beginning in the eleventh century, Western European capitalism can be characterized by alternating periods of laisser-faire and public control. This paper attempts to judge the validity of Pirenne's hypothesis.

The purpose of this study is twofold: (1) to examine which municipal governments are net beneficiaries of the Ontario programme of intergovernmental transfers and (2) to determine whether distribution of grants equitably reflects differences amongst municipal units.

The net burden of in-migrants on the population of a city is calculated in this article by multiplying the income distribution of in-migrants by an income-based per capita distribution of revenues and expenditures. A measure of the burden which compensates for different revenue-expenditure...

This paper outlines a workable statistical model which circumvents some of the severe institutional problems which exist at the disaggregate individual industry level. In addition, this model should permit the generation of useful sectoral information for the refinement of aggregate analysis.

This paper presents some results of a study which develops and tests an econometric model of the Canadian automotive manufacturing industry. Annual behaviour over the 1948-1964 period is examined by utilizing eighteen stochastic equations and four major identities. The research strategy follows...

During the past decade, a considerable amount of econometric research has been devoted to the explanation of movements in wages. Most empirical studies have used a basic disequilibrium model, first suggested by Philips, in which the change in money wage rates is related to the level of...