The problems of seasonal adjustment and other forms of prior adjustment have seldom been integrated into a general framework of estimation. A well-known result, due to Frisch and Waugh, has been used to demonstrate how linear seasonal influences might be treated in the context of the general...

Canadian public-private mixed enterprises are examined in relation to two objectives the government may pursue: the provision of risk capital and the coordination of the technological development of an industry. There may be a role for a government in co-ordinating plans of an industry by...

We develop a new form of the information matrix test for a wide variety of statistical models, and present full details for the special case of univariate nonlinear regression models. Chesher (1984) showed that the implicit alternative of the information matrix test is a model with random...

This paper presents a synthesis of the way that corporation income tax influences the capital accumulation decision of a dynamic neoclassical firm. Relative and absolute prices for capital goods are allowed to change, adjustment costs are considered, investment tax incentives are investigated,...

This paper introduces a general framework for the discussion of renegotiation in repeated games, provides a new concept of "renegotiation proof" equilibrium, and shows how this model clarifies and unifies existing work in this area. The procedure involves restricting axiomatically the class of...

This paper models earnings of male and female Bachelor’s graduates in Canada five years after graduation. Using a university fixed-effect approach, the research finds evidence of significant (fixed) variations in earnings among graduates from different universities. Within universities changes...

We introduce a patent (prize) which induces entry at a level which satisfies the basic condition of optimality with respect to the "size" of the race (a second best patent). We observe in an example that the resulting equilibrium is very close to the first best optimal. The approach of the...