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Dans le cadre de cet article, on examine si les Canadiens paient plus cher que les Americains pour les biens et services qu'ils achetent, en utilisant les donnees relatives aux prix de 160 produits pour chacune des cinq annees etudiees (1985, 1990, 1993, 1996 et 1999).
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Dans cet article, on examine les causes eventuelles des ecarts par rapport a la parite de pouvoir d'achat (PPA) entre le Canada et les Etats-Unis observes au cours des annees 1980 et 1990. En outre, on etudie l'effet de la productivite ainsi que l'hypothese sous-jacente de la PPA concernant les...
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Le present document a trois objectifs principaux. Premierement, il presente les tendances a long terme de l'impartition et de la delocalisation dans les diverses industries au Canada. Deuxiemement, il examine la relation entre la delocalisation et les changements aux structures des echanges au...
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Realisee a l'aide d'un fichier longitudinal de microdonnees sur les etablissements manufacturiers (1974 a 1999), cette etude a pour but d'evaluer l'effet de l'accroissement du commerce sur le niveau de specialisation industrielle des economies manufacturieres regionales. En accord avec la...
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Dans ce document, on examine les mesures prises par les usines canadiennes de fabrication face aux reductions des barrieres tarifaires entre le Canada et le reste du monde au cours des deux dernieres decennies.
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This paper examines substantial productivity gains in Canadian manufacturing resulting from tariff reductions from the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.
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This paper studies the impact that a small country joining a regional trade agreement, but particularly a small country, might be expected to gain from the exploitation of scale economies. It makes use of the experience of Canada when it entered into the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement...
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This paper has three main objectives. First, it presents the long-term trends in outsourcing and offshoring across Canadian industries. Second, it examines the relationship between offshoring and changes in trade patterns at the industry level. It focuses on two major drivers that some have...
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This paper uses a detailed industry-level data base of industry prices in the manufacturing sector in Canada and the United States to investigate whether prices are co-integrated in the two countries and whether the relationship between the two sets of prices follows the law of one price. We...
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The paper investigates how Canadian manufacturing plants adjust to an increase in low-wage import competition by changing their commodity portfolios. At the commodity level, we distinguish between 'core' versus 'peripheral' and differentiated versus homogeneous commodities. We also account for...
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