This paper extends the infinitely repeated tariff lobbying game of Pecorino [8] to allow for imperfect monitoring, and revisits the question of how an industry's ability to maintain a cooperative outcome is affected by the number of firms in the industry. The paper demonstrated that Pecorino [8]...

Do well-functioning stock markets and banks promote long-run economic growth? Recent studies answer this important question in the affirmative. This paper presents a reasonable extreme bounds analysis of the empirical relationships between the financial system and economic growth as well as the...

This paper implements a variety of robust, regression-based diagnostics to nonlinear models of effective federal individual income tax. The paper proposes a generalized nonlinear model of effective income.

This paper proposes a method of estimating marginal tax rates using nonparametric regression techniques, and the income and tax data obtained from the Individual Tax Model Files. Our method yields estimates of average marginal effective tax rates on personal income which are significantly...

This paper implements a variety of robust, regression-based diagnostics to nonlinear models of effective federal individual income tax.

University policies, such as the last date for withdrawal from courses without academic penalty and tuition refund schedules, vary across universities and over time. Data on those policies at 38 Canadian universities, 1997-2005, are used to estimate their relation to whether students: (i)...

In 2000 and 2001 Canadians were shocked by water contamination events that took place in two provinces. In 2004 we undertook an Internet-based survey across Canada that asked respondents to identify in percentage terms their total drinking water consumption according to one of three sources: tap...