We study the coupling of the United States and Canada's industrial production indices using a non-linear autoregressive … expanded set of specifications. We identify the dynamic linkage between the United States and Canada and evaluate the forecast …

countries. On the other hand, analysts ask whether there is a productivity gap — whether Canada is equally efficient in …Comparisons of Canada’s economy to that of the United States are done for several purposes. On the one hand, analysts … are interested in whether there is an output gap between the two countries — whether Canada is as well off as the United …

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …