Volume 15
February 1997

Notes From the CEA

Separate CEA Meetings

At the December 1996 Executive Meetings, it was decided to survey the members about leaving the Learneds and establishing a separate CEA Meeting. This would be an experiment and not a permanent decision. A letter describing this option and a ballot for you to return is included with the February issue of the CJE. Please express your opinion by completing and returning the ballot.

Nominating Committee

The Nominating Committee of the Canadian Economics Association places the following candidates in nomination for election to the Executive Council with terms beginning in June 1997.

President -Elect:
Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia
Vice-President:
Lars Osberg, Dalhousie University
Council: (four to be elected for a three-year term)
Paul Beaudry, University of British Columbia
Diane Dupont, Brock University
Michel Poitevin, Université de Montreal
Marc Van Audenrode, Université Laval

The constitution provides that additional nominations may be made by any five members by submitting a nomination paper signed by the nominee and five Association members. Such additional nominations must reach the President no later than March 15, 1997. If additional nominations are received, a postal ballot will be conducted prior to the Annual General Meeting. The names of those elected will be announced at the Meeting.

Faculty/Corps Professoral

New Appointments, Departures/Récentes Nominations, Départs
Visiting Appointments/Professeur(e)s Invité(e)s
Awards & Other News/Distinctions & Autre Nouvelles

Short-Term Visitors/Futurs Visiteurs

University of Alberta: Ken McKenzie, University of Calgary, January - June 1997 (pt)
University of Alberta, Department of Rural Economy: Somchai Ongprasert, Maejo University, Thailand, Oct. - Dec. 1, 1996; Varee Rahong, Maejo University, Thailand, Aug. 30 - Dec. 31, 1996; Numchai Thanupon, Maejo University, Thailand, Aug. 30 - Dec. 31, '96; Thep Pongparnich, Maejo University, Thailand, Oct. 20 - Oct. 30, 1996; Numpet Winiscaikule, Maejo Univ., Thailand, Aug. 30 - Dec. 31, 1996; Alois Mandondo, University of Zimbabwe, Oct. 15 - Nov. 19, 1996; Billy Mukamuri, University of Zimbabwe, Oct. 22 - Nov. 19, 1996
University of British Columbia, Agricultural Economics: Andrzej Kluza, Warsaw University of Agriculture as a Dekaban Scholar for the period July 16 to December 1996
University of Calgary: Robert Taylor, San Diego State University, January 10-24, 1997
Dalhousie University: Robert McKelvey, University of Montana, Sept. 1 - Nov. 29, 1996; August Aarma, Tallinn Technical University, Jan. 11 - Mar. 11, 1997; Tiia Kaare, Tallinn Technical University, Feb. 1 - April 1, 1997; Raissa Kokkota, Tallinn Technical University, Sept. 1 - Dec. 15, 1996; Aita Tammeraid, Tallinn Technical University, Oct. 15 - Dec. 15, 1996; Ann Vihalem, Tallinn Technical University, Oct. 1 - Nov. 30, 1996; Veronika Bikse, University of Latvia, Sept. 21, 1996 - Jan. 17, 1997; Luana Kalnina, University of Latvia, January 11 - May 11, 1997; Valerijs Praude, University of Latvia, January 11 - March 11, 1997; Erika Shumilo, University of Latvia, Sept. 21 - December 20, 1996; Biruta Sloka, University of Latvia, February 1 - April 1, 1997; Jurate Antanivisiené, Vilnius University, Sept. 3 - Dec. 15, 1996; Ona Rakauskiene Vilnius University, Sept. 3 - Dec. 15, 1996; Virginijus Tamasevicius, Vilnius University, Feb. 1 - Aug. 1, 1997
Université Laval: Narcisse Fiérre, Université d' étal
McGill University: Koji Shimomura, Kobe University, August 1 - September 30, 1996; Yves Balasko, Univ. de Genéve, 1er au 7 décembre 1996; Ulrich Blum, Univ. technique de Dresde, 17 au 30 novembre 1996; Robert Gary-Bobo, Univ. de Cergy-Pontoise, Hiver 1997 (2 sem); Ramo Gencay, Univ. of Windsor, 20 au 27 novembre 1996; Francois, Grin, Univ. de Genéve, Mai 1997 (1 semaine); Jan Kiviet, Univ. d'Amsterdam, Hiver 1997 (2 semaines); Tom McCurdy, Queen's University, Printemps 1997 (1 sem); Nour Meddahi, Univ. of Chicago, Hiver 1997 (1 semaine); Pierre Pestiau, Univ. de Liége, 19 au 25 janvier 1997; Eric Renault, Univ. des sciences sociales, Hiver 1997 (2 sem); Jean-Charles Rochet, Univ. de Touluse, Avril 1997 (2 sem); Christian Gourieroux, INSEE, Hiver 1997 (3 semaines); Isabelle Bajeux, Geo. Washington Univ., Hiver 1997 (1 sem); Ron Braeutigam, Northwestern Univ., Avril 1997 (1 sem); Ulrich Hege, Groupe HEC, Paris, 7 au 19 janvier 1997; John Panzar, Northwestern University, Mai 1997 (1 sem)
(Université du Montréal) École des Hautes Études Commerciales: Philippe Godfroid, Univ. de Mons et Univ. de Toulouse, stage postdoctoral, Chaire de gestion des risques, jan - déc 1997; New Brunswick, Agricultural Economics; A. Mahmood, Univ. of Newcastle, Australia: Sept. - Dec. 1996
University of Saskatchewan, Agricultural Economics: George Brinkman, Univ. of Guelph, Ag. Econ., Sept. - Oct. 1996
University of Victoria: Dr. Izawa, Ritsumeikan Univ. Kyoto, Japan, Aug. - Sept. 1997

Miscellaneous Information/Divers

Conferences: April 17-18, 1997: Road Safety, Insurance and Regulation. To be held at Center for Research on Transportation (CRT), Université de Montréal. Sponsored by the CRT in collaboration with the Risk Management Chair at HEC-Montréal. Contact Georges Dionne, Tel: (514) 343-7388, (514) 340-6596, Fax: (514) 343-7121, (514) 340-5632, e-mail: dionne@crt.montreal.ca.; May 23-25, 1997: Canadian Economic Theory Conference to be held in Toronto. For information on submitting proposals contact: Massimo Marinacci, Department of Economics, University of Toronto, 150 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G7. Tel: (416) 978-4375, Fax: (416) 978- 6713, e-mail: massimo@chass.utoronto.ca.; June 5-7, 1997. Call for Papers. The Chinese Economic Association in North America (CEANA) is organizing joint sessions with the Canadian Economic Association (CEA) on the "Economic Issues in the Asia-Pacific Region" at the CEA annual conference, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's Newfoundland. Papers pertinent to the productivity issue in Asia are most welcome. CEANA will independently hold its own conference sessions at the same date and site and will welcome submissions on all topics of economics. Interested participants please submit two copies of an abstract/paper by February 28, 1997, to Kenneth S. Chan, Department of Economics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4M4; Fax: (519) 521-8232, e-mail: Chanken@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca.; June 15-18, 1997: Global Networking '97, Calgary, Alberta. Sponsored by International Telecommunications Society and International Council for Computer Communication. Contact Person:; Jeffrey Church, Department of Economics, The University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Tel: (403) 220-6106, Fax: (403) 282-5262, e-mail: jrchruch@acs.ucalgary.ca.; June 19-21, 1997: The Seventeenth Annual International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF'97) to be held in Barbados. This Conference is sponsored by the International Institute of Forecasting in collaboration with the Central Bank of Barbados. Contact Persons: DeLisle Worrell, General Chair, Central Bank of Barbados, P.O. Box 1016, Bridgetown. Tel: (246) 436-6870, Fax: (246) 427-1431 or 436-9959, e-mail: cbb.rdw@caribsurf.com., and Geoff Allen, Program Chair, Dept. of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA, Tel: (413) 545-5715, Fax: (413) 545-5853, e-mail: allen@resecon.umass.edu.
Other/Autres

Doctoral Theses/Théses de Doctorat

University of British Columbia: Craig Brett, "The Optimal Taxation of Families"; Ross McKitrick, "The Econometric Critique of Applied General Equilibrium Modeling: A Comparative Assessment with Application to Carbon Taxes in Canada"
Dalhousie University: Fiona MacPhail, "Three Essays on Earnings Inequality in Canada During the 1980s"
Université Laval: Louis-Marie Asselin, "Le rôle de l'Etat dans la qualité de l'éducation et son impact sur l'efficacité économique"
University of Manitoba: Sesi Komla Akoena, "Demand for Money in Ghana: A Cointegration and Error Correction Approach and Comparison of Alternative Models; Ibrahim A. Onour, "Parallel Market for Foreign Exchange: A Dynamic Analysis"
McGill University: Licun Xue, "Coalition Stability in Strategic Situations"; Rebecca Saunders Toppa, "Some of the Effects of Capital Taxation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis"
McMaster University: Arthur Sweetman, "Three Essays on the Econometrics of Worker Displacement"; Huan Nguyen-Dinh, "An Econometric Analysis of the Number, Timing and Spacing of Births in Vietnam"
Université de Montréal: Evangelia Papadaki, "Three essays on imperfect competition, welfare and growth"
University of Saskatchewan, Agricultural Economics: Seyyed Safdar Hosseini, "The Aggregate Impacts of Individual-Based Income Support Programs for Farmers"
Simon Fraser University: Mahamudu Bawumla, "Structural Adjustment and Electoral Behaviour in 1992 Ghanian Presidential Election"; Peter E. Robertson, "Endogenous Growth, Human Capital, and Unskilled Labour: A Model of Growth in a Developing Country with Application to Growth and Openness in Developing America"; Nobuya Takezawa, "Three Empirical Essays in International Financial Economics"
University of Toronto: Werner Antweiler, "Three Essays on International Trade: Hysteresis, R&D and the Environment"; Dajiang Guo, "Essays on Implied Stochastic Volatility from Currency Options"; Ho-Cheung Ho, "Essays on the Housing Market"; Aidan Hollis, "The Application of Economic Theory to Competition Policy"; Halina Kwiecinska, "Monetary Independence Under a Fixed Exchange Rate: The Interwar Experience, 1925:5-1931:4"; Kai Ki, "Essays in Bayesian Financial Econometrics"; Kin Chung Lo, "Games with Uncertainty Averse Players"; Jack Parkinson, "Essays on Services in Manufacturing"; Edgard Rodriguez, "Economic Impact of International Migration on a Source Country: Micro-level Data from the Philippines"; John Serieux, "Financial Liberalization in Structural Adjustment Programs; Empirical Evaluations of the Experiences of Ghana and Kenya"; Baogui Wang, "Essays on Contracts and Contract Renegotiations: Applications to Land and Financial Markets"; Kazem Yavari, "Oil Shocks, Exchange Rates and Resource Allocation in Iran, 1960-92"
The University of Western Ontario: Toni Gravelle, "The Importance of Beliefs in Monetary and Financial Settings"; Jinyong G. Jiang, "Nonparametric Estimation of Ito Diffusions with Applications to the Pricing of Derivative Securities"; John Kennes, "Job Matching and Unemployment Dynamics"; Winnie Lam, "Impact on Asia of China's Trade, Foreign Investment, and Factor Market Preforms: A General Equilibrium Approach"; Brian Rivard, "An Imperfect Competition Suite"; Mingwei Yuan, "The Effects of Government Policies on (Un) Employment in a Search Model"
York University: Bruce Ian Cater, "Essays in the Economics of Worker Impairment"; Mahendhiran Sanggaran Nair, "Identification and Inference in Multi-Population Econometric Models"

Recent Working Papers/Récents Cahiers de Recherche

To order individual copies of the working papers contact the institution

University of Alberta: Adolf Buse, "Testing Homogeneity in the Linearized Almost Ideal Demand System"; Stuart Landon, "Education Costs and Institutional Structure"; Robin Lindsey, "Effects of Driver Information in the Bottleneck Model"; A. Buse, "On the Equivalence of Pooled and Mixed Estimation"
Bank of Canada: Donald Coletti, Benjamin Hunt, David Rose and Robert Tetlow, "The Dynamic Model: QPM, The Bank of Canada's New Projection Model (Part 3)"; John Murray, Simon van Norden and Robert Vigfusson, "Excess Volatility and Speculative Bubbles in the Canadian Dollar: Real or Imagined?"; Leo Butler, "A Semi-Structural Method to Estimate Potential Output: Combining Economic Theory with a Time-Series Filter, The Bank of Canada's New Projection Model (Part 4)"; Alain Guay and Pierre St-Amant, "Do Mechanical Filters Provide a Good Approximation of Business Cycles?"; Marcel Kasumovich, "Interpreting Money-Supply and Interest-Rate Shocks as Monetary-Policy Shocks"; Allan Crawford and Marcel Kasumovich, "Does Inflation Uncertainty Vary with the Level of Inflation?"; Marie-Josée Godbout and Simon van Norden, "Unit-Root Tests and Excess Returns"; Simon van Norden and Robert Vigfusson, "Avoiding the Pitfalls: Can Regime-Switching Tests Detect Bubbles?"; Mario Lefebvre and Stephen Poloz, "The Commodity-Price Cycle and Regional Economic Performance in Canada"; Simon van Norden and Huntley Schaller, "Speculative Behaviour, Regime-Switching and Stock Market Crashes"; Jean-François Fillion, "L'endettement du Canada et ses effets sur les taux d'intérêt réels de long terme"; Joseph Atta-Mensah, "A Modified P*-Model of Inflation Based on M1"
University of British Columbia: Philip Oreopoulos, "A Generational Accounting Perspective on Canadian Public Policy"; Robert Allen, "The Economic Benefits of Post Secondary Training and Education in B.C.: An Outcome Assessment"; Hugh Neary, "To Fight or Not to Fight: Equilibrium Structure in a Conflict Model when Conflict is Costly"; Edi Karni and John Weymark, "An Informationally Parsimonious Impartial Observer Theorem"; Russell Uhler, "Natural Resource Ownership and Investment Incentives"; Cherie Metcalf, Angela Redish and Ronald Shearer, "New Estimates of the Canadian Money Stock: 1871-1967"; Alan Green and David Green, "The Economic Goals of Canada's Immigration Policy, Past and Present"; David A. Green and W. Craig Riddell, "Job Durations in Canada: Is Long Term Employment Declining?"; John Cragg and Stephen Donald, "Testing Overidentifying Restrictions in Unidentified Models"; Charles Blackorby and David Donaldson, "Market Demand Curves and Dupuit-Marshall Consumers' Surpluses: A General Equilibrium Analysis"; Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, "Foreign Aid and Population Policy: Some Ethical Considerations"; Walter Bossert and John Weymark, "Utility in Social Choice"; Margaret Slade, "Sticky Prices in a Dynamic Oligopoly: An Investigation of (s,S) Thresholds"; David Ryan and Terence Wales, "A Simple Method For Imposing Local Curvature in Some Flexible Consumer Demand System"; Charles Blackorby, David Donaldson and John Weymark, "Harsanyl's Social Aggregation Theorem for State-Contingent"; Jonathan Kesselman, "Economic Issues of General Payroll Taxes"; Veijo Kaitala and Gordon Munro, "The Conservation and Management of High Seas Fishery Resources Under the New Law of the Sea"; Guofu Tan and Lasheng Yuan, "Complements, Substitutes, and Strategic Divisionalization of Competing Conglomerates"; David Ryan and Terence Wales, "Flexible and Semiflexible Consumer Demands With Quadratic Engle Curves"
UBC Department of Agricultural Economics: Marielle Savard, Mary Bohman and Pierre-Philippe Claude, "Impact of Trade and Environmental Policies in the Hog Sector on Water Quality in North Carolina and Quebec"; G. Cornelis van Kooten, "Economic Evaluation of British Columbia's Forest Practices Code: Where are the Benefits?"
Brock University: Roberta Edgecombe Robb and A. Leslie Robb, "Gender and the Study of Economics: The Role of Gender of the Instructor"; Zisimos Koustas, "The Prospects for a Common European Currency: An Economic Assessment"; Diane P. Dupont and Steven Renzetti, "The Role of Water in the Canadian Manufacturing Industry"; Diane P. Dupont, "Sequencing Effects in Double-Bounded Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation Surveys"
The University of Calgary: Ronald D. Kneebone and Kenneth J. McKenzie, "Government budget responses to fiscal shocks"; Lawrence A. Leger and James D. Gaisford, "Costs of employment, terms of trade shocks and policy responses: Efficiency versus equilibrium"; Ronald D. Kneebone and Kenneth J. McKenzie, "Swallowing frogs and herding cats: the conjunctural forces behind the Alberta budget cuts"; Kenneth J. McKenzie, Jack M. Mintz and Kimberly A. Scharf, "Measuring effective tax rates in the presence of multiple inputs"; Jeffrey Church and Roger Ware, "Abuse of dominance under the 1986 Competition Act"; George Emery and J.C. Herbert Emery, "The independent order of odd fellows and sickness insurance in the United States and Canada, 1850-1929"; Apostolos Serletis and Panos C. Afxentiou, "Electoral and partisan cycle regularities in Canada"; Apostolos Serletis and Grigorios Zimonpoulos, "Breaking trend functions in real exchange rates: Evidence from seventeen OECD countries"; Apostolos Serletis, "Is there an East-West split in North American natural gas markets?"; Apostolos Serletis and George Zestos, "On the Gibson paradox"
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research: George A. Akerlof, "Social Distance and Social Decisions"; Richard G. Lipsey and Russel M. Wills, "Science and Technology Policies in Asia Pacific Countries: Challenges and Opportunities in Canada"; Paul Romer, "Why, Indeed, in America? Theory, History and the Origins of Modern Economic Growth"; Richard Lipsey, "Globalization and National Government Policies: An Economist's View"; Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman, "Intergenerational Redistribution with Short-Lived Governments"; Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman, "Technological Determinants of Trade"; Walid Hejazi and A. E. Safarian, "Trade, Investment and United States R & D Spillovers"; John Baldwin, "The Importance of Research and Development for Innovation in Small and Large Canadian Manufacturing Firms"; John R. Baldwin, "The Use of Intellectual Property Rights by Canadian Manufacturing Firms: Findings from the Innovation Survey"; John R. Baldwin and Joanne Johnson, "Success, Innovation, Technology, and Human Resources Strategies -- An Interactive System"; John Baldwin, "The Characteristics of Innovation Regimes by Type of Innovation"; David C. Mowery, Joanne E. Oxley and Brian S. Silverman, "Technological Overlap and Interfirm Cooperation: Implications for the Resource-Based View of the Firm"; David C. Mowery and Richard R. Nelson, "The U.S. Corporation and Technical Progress"; Rose Marie Ham and David C. Mowery, "The U.S. Policy Response to Globalization: Looking for the Keys Under the Lamp Post"; David C. Mowery, " U.S. Postwar Technology Policy and the Creation of New Industries"; David C. Mowery and Richard N. Langlois, "Spinning Off and Spinning On (?): The Federal Government Role in the Development of the U.S. Computer Software Industry"; David C. Mowery, "The Computer Software Industry"; Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, "A Schumpeterian Perspective on Growth and Competition"; Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, "The Observational Implications of Schumpeterian Growth Theory"; James A. Brander and M. Scott Taylor, "The Simple Economics of Easter Island: A Ricardo-Malthus Model of Renewable Resource Use"; Tamim Bayoumi, David T. Coe and Elhanan Helpman, "R. & D Spillovers and Global Growth"; Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, "On the Macroeconomic Effects of Major Technological Change"; David Card and W. Craig Riddell, "Unemployment in Canada and the United States: A Further Analysis"; Paul Romer, "Progress and Puzzles in Understanding the Determinants of Economic Growth"; Paul Beaudry and Michael B. Devereux, "Exploring General Equilibrium Implications of Skill-Based Technological Change"; Pierre Fortin, "The Great Canadian Slump"
Dalhousie University: John Cornwall and Wendy Cornwall, "Explaining Economic Breakdown: Equilibrium or History as Organizing Concepts?"; Shelley Phipps, Peter Burton and Lars Osberg, "The Within-Household Distribution of Subjective Well-Being"
Industry Canada: Jeffrey I. Bernstein, "International R & D Spillovers Between Industries in Canada and the United States"; P. Someshwar Rao and Clifton R. Lee-Sing, "Governance Structure, Corporate Decision-Making and Firm Performance in North America"; Ashfaq Ahmad, Someshwar Rao and Colleen Barnes, "Foreign Direct Investment and APEC Economic Integration"; Julian Birkinshaw, "World Mandate Strategies for Canadian Subsidiaries"; Jeffrey I. Bernstein, "R & D and Productivity Growth in Canadian Communications Equipment and Manufacturing"; Serge Coulombe and Frank C. Lee, "Long-Run Perspective on Canadian Regional Convergence"; Ronald Daniels and Randall Morck, "Canadian Corporate Governance: Policy Options"
Université Laval: Michael Truchon, "La démocratie: oui maise laquelle?"; Christos Constantatos and Stylianos Perrakis, "Entry and Minimum Quality Standards in a Vertically Differentiated Industry"; Pascal St-Amour and Désiré Vencatachellum, "Family Organization, Retirement and Sectoral Employment in Developing Agricultural Economies"; Jean-Yves Duclos and Martin Tabi, "Linear Inequality Measures and the Redistribution of Income"; Jean-Yves Duclos and Magda Mercarder-Prats, "Household Needs and Poverty: with Application to Spain and the UK"; Pierre-Yves Crémieux and Marc Van Audenrose, "Unemployment Insurance Experience Rating of Firms and Layoffs"; Yves Richelle, "Trade Incidence on Transboundary Pollution: Free Trade Can Benefit the Global Environmental Quality"; Michael Roland and Jean-Thomas Bernard, "Load Management Programs, Cross-Subsidies and Transaction Costs: the Case of Self-Rationing"; Bruce Shearer and Nicolas Marceau, "Does Unemployment Make you Sick? an Economic Analysis of the Determinants of Health"; Paul Lanoie, Francois Raymond and Bruce Shearer, "Work Sharing and Productivity: Evidence from Firm Level Data"; Sylvain E. Dessy, "On the Diffusion of Development: a Late-Industrializing Model"; Sylvain E. Dessy, "Subsidy-Allocation Rules for Infant Industries"; N.M. Hung and D.L. Phan, "Contrôle de pollution et commerce international en concurrence monopolisique"; Harry J. Paarsch and Bruce Shearer, "Piece Rates, Fixed Wages, and Incentive Effects: Statistical Evidence from Payroll Records"; Philippe De Donder, Michel Le Breton and Michel Truchon, "A Set-Theoretical Comparison of C2 Social Choice Correspondences"
McGill University: Jan Peter Olters, "Economic Model of Political Decision Making"
McMaster University: Department of Economics; Martin Browning and Thomas Crossley, "Unemployment Insurance Benefit Levels and Consumption Changes"; Alok Johri, "Markups and the Seasonal Cycle: Testing Collusive Pricing Under Certainty Based on the Seasonal Cycle"; Andrew Muller and Michelle Vickers, "Communication in a Common Pool Resource Environment with Probabilistic Destruction"; Lonnie Magee, Les Robb and John Burbidge, "Estimating Regression Models Using Survey Sample Weights"; Haim Falk, Bernadette Lynn, Stuart Mestelman and Mohamed Shehata, "Self-Interested Behavior and Ethics: The Case of Auditor Independence"; Syed Ahmad, "Cambridge Debate on Capital Theory"; Peter Kuhn and Arthur Sweetman, "Vulnerable Seniors: Unions, Tenure and the Cost of Job Loss"; Peter Kuhn and Arthur Sweetman, "Displacement and Wage Loss: The Role of Union Coverage"; Peter Kuhn and Arthur Sweetman, "Do Labels Matter? Unemployment Insurance and Quits in Canada"; Gordon Myers and Yorgos Papageorgiou, "Towards a Better System for Immigration Control"; John Burbidge, James Depater, Gordon Myers and Abhijit Sengupta, "A Coalition-Formation Approach to Equilibrium Federations and Trading Blocs"; Quantitative Studies in Economics and Population; Frank Denton, Chris Feaver, Dean Mountain, Les Robb and Byron Spencer, "THRILLS: The Hourly Regional Industrial Load Simulator User Manual (Version 1.4)"; Frank Denton, Chris Feaver, Dean Mountain, Les Robb and Byron Spencer, "Industry-Region Load Profiles: Econometric Estimation Based on Marginal Totals"; Itzhak Krinsky and Jason Lee, "Earnings Announcements and the Components of the Bid-Ask Spread"; Jeong-Bon Kim, Itzhak Krinsky and Jason Lee, "Institutional Holdings and Trading Volume Reactions to Quarterly Earnings Announcements"; Frank Denton, Dean Mountain and Byron Spencer, "A Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System Estimated with Pooled Regional Time Series: Approximate Aggregation with an Accounting for Age, Cohort, and Trend Effects"; Frank Denton and Byron Spencer, "How Old is Old? Revising the Definition Based on Life Table Criteria:; Frank Denton, Chris Feaver and Byron Spencer, "The Future Population of Canada and Its Age Distribution"; Frank Denton, Chris Feaver and Byron Spencer, "Student Enrollment and Faculty Renewal: The Response of a Tenure-Based University System to Demographic and Budgetary Shocks"
Université de Montréal: Pierre Perron et Serena Ng, "An Autoregressive Spectral Density Estimator at Frequency Zero for Nonstationarity Tests"; Eric Ghysels et Serena Ng, "A Semi-Parametric Factor Model for Interest Rates"; Eric Ghysels, Andrew Harvey et Eric Renault, "Stochastic Volatility"; Robert Kollmann, "The Exchange Rate in a Dynamic-Optimizing Current Account Model with Nominal Rigidities: A Quantitative Investigation"; Peter Bossaerts, Eric Ghysels et Christian Gouriéroux, "Arbitrage-Based Pricing when Volatility is Stochastic"; U. Blum et L. Dudley, "The Rise and Decline of the East German Economy, 1948-1989"; Marie Allard, Camille Bronsard et Christian Gouriéroux, "Actifs financiers et théorie de la consommation"; Rodrigue Tremblay, "Lamobilité internationale des facteurs de production en situation de chômage et de libre-échange commercial: une revue de la problématique"; L. Dudley, "The Rationality of Revolution"; L. Dudley, "Communications and Economic Growth"; T. Abdelkhalek et A. Martens, "Macroclosures in Computable General Equilibrium Models: A Probabilistic Treatment with an Application to Morocco"; Pierre-Paul Proulx, "La mondialisation de l'économie et le rôle de l'État"; Pierre-Paul Proulx, "Economic Integration in North America: Formal, Informal and Spatial Aspects"; Yves Sprumont, "Ordinal cost sharing"; Jean-Guy Loranger, "The transformation problem: an alternative solution with an identical aggregate profit rate in the labor value space and the monetary space"; Patrice Dansereau, André Martens and Hermann Schnablp, "Production Linkages between Informal and Formal Activities considering Domestic and Imported Inputs: an Application of the Minimal-flow-analysis Method to Senegal"; Yves Sprumont, "Equal Factor Equivalence in Economies with Multiple Public Goods"; University of New Brunswick, Agricultural Economics; F. Ezaela-Harrison, "Labour Market Impacts of Structural Adjustment in African Countries"; A. Mahmood and F. Exaela-Harrison, "Comparative and Competitive Advantage in National Competitiveness"
University of Ottawa: M. Seccareccia, "Logical Time Units and Macroeconomic Price Formation: A Possible Element of Conceptual Integration of Keynes's Treatise on Money and the General Theory"; R.Q. Grafton and J. Silva-Echenique, "How to Mange Nature? Strategies, Predator-Prey Models and Chaos"; D.M. Gray, "An 'Insider-Outsider' Approach to the Political Economy of Unemployment Policy: Empirical Evidence from France"; S. Coulombe and K.M. Day, "$-Convergence, F-Convergence, and the Stationary-State Level of Regional Disparities: The Case of Canada"; M. Seccareccia, "Pricing, Investment and the Financing of Production Within the Framework of the Monetary Circuit: Some Preliminary Evidence"
University of Regina: M. Jones, "Regional Patterns in Chinese Development Since 1978"; M. Jones and M. Hood, "A Prescription for Healthy TVE Growth in Rural China"; H. Akhand, "On Income Tax Functions: An Application of Robust, Regression-Based Diagnostics to Models of Conditional Means"; H. Akhand, "Effective Federal Individual Income Tax Functions: A Further Exploration"; H. Akhand, "The Methods of Estimating Marginal Tax Rates: A Survey"; H. Akhand, "Central Bank Independence and Growth: A Reasonable Extreme-Bounds Analysis"; I. Rongve and H. Emery, "Much Ado About Nothing? Demographic Bulges, The Productivity Puzzle and CPP Reform"; H. Akhand and J.B. Marshall, "Intertemporal Revenue-Smoothing in the Postwar United States and Canada"; I. Rongve, "Poverty Experience of Canadian Single Parent Families: 1982-1992"
Ryerson Polytechnic University: Ingrid Bryan, "Pricing-to-Market in the Presence of Freight Rate and Exchange Rate Changes: Evidence from Canadian Data"; Ali A. Bolbol, "Deficit Financing, Foreign Debt, and the Mundell-Fleming Model: A Dynamic Analysis"
Simon Fraser University: Ernesto Felli and Giovanni Tria, "Externalities and Cross-sectoral Spillovers in Italian Industry"; R. Glen Donaldson and Mark Kamstra, "Forecasting Fundamental Asset Return Distributions and Tests for Excess Volatility and Bubbles"; Peter Kennedy and William B. Walstad, "Combining Multiple-Choice and Constructed-Response Test Scores: An Economist's View"
University of Toronto: John E. Floyd, "Monetary Policy and the Real Exchange Rate: Some Evidence"; Larry Epstein and Michael Peters, "Self-Referential Mechanisms"; Petra Bradler and Chun Yee Wong, "Marriage, Motherhood and Wages: Recent Evidence"; Michael Peters, "Competition Among Mechanism Designers in a Common Value Environment"; Michael Smart, "Taxation incentives and deadweight loss in a system of intergovernmental transfers"; Pierre-Pascal Genfron, "Corporation Tax Asymmetries: An Oligopolistic Supergame Analysis"; Carolyn Pitchik, "Irreversible, Unobservable, Costly Investment in the Presence of Rivals"; Michael Smart, "On limited liability and the development of capital markets: An historical analysis"; Miquel Faig and Pauline Shum, "Irreversible Investment, Financing Choice and Asymmetric Corporate Taxes"; Michael Peters, "On the Equivalence of Walrasian and Non-Walrasian Equilibria in Contract Markets: The Case of Complete Contracts"
Trent University: D. Thomas, "Estimating a Monetary Model of Inflation Determination in Jamaica"; S. Choudhry, B. Mak Arvin and R.G. Morrison, "Ranking Donors in the Allocation of Aid to Developing Countries: New Evidence"; B. Mak Arvin and Robert G. Murphy, "A Model of Reputation Acquisition in Real Estate Brokerage"; S. Choudhry, "Women Workers in the Global Factory: Assessing the Impact of Gender Power Assymetries on Compensating Differentials and Comparable Worth"; B. Mak Arvin and Robert G. Murphy, "Optimal Reputation and Selling Effort in Real Estate Brokerage Under Dynamic Conditions"
University of Victoria: Merwan Engineer, :Transaction Costs and Competing Currencies"; Merwan Engineer, Joan Esteban and Józsf Sákovics, "Costly Transfer Institution and the Core in an Overlapping Generations Model"; Merwan Engineer and Shouyon Shi, "Bargaining-Induced Transaction Demand for Fiat Money"; David E.A. Giles "Causality Between the Measured and Underground Economies in New Zealand"; Anming Zhang, Tae Hoon Oum and Jong-Hun Park, "The Effects of Airline Codesharing Agreements on Firm Conduct and International Air Fares"; Anming Zhang, "An Analysis of Fortress Hubs in Airline Networks"; David E.A. Giles, "The Hidden Economy and Tax-Evasion Prosecutions in New Zealand"; David E. Giles and Andrea S. Keil, "Applying the RESET Test in Allocation Models: A Cautionary Note"; Judith A. Giles, David E.A. Giles and Kazuhiro Ohtani, "The Exact Risks of Some Pre-Test and Stein-Type Regression Estimators Under Balanced Loss"; David E.A. Giles, "Testing for Asymmetry in the Measured and Underground Business Cycles in New Zealand"; Carl A. Mosk, "Cities on the Sea: Communication and Concentration in Modern Japan"; David E.A. Giles and Linda F. DeBenedictis, "Diagnostic Testing in Econometrics: Variable Addition, RESET, and Fourier Approximations"
University of Waterloo: James A. Brox and Christina A. Fader, "Public Infrastructure, Regional Efficiency, and Factor Substitutability in Atlantic Canada Manufacturing"; James A. Brox and Christina A. Fader, "The Science of Management and the Art of Flexibility: Assessing the Impact of JIT Using a CES-Translog Total Cost Function"; David Andolfatto, Paul Gomme and Paul Storer, "U.S. Labour Market Policy and the Canada-U.S. Unemployment Rate Gap"; James A. Brox and Ramesh Kumar, "Valuing Camp-site Characteristics: A Generalized Trave-cost Model of Demand for Recreational Camping"; Michael A. Busseri, Robert R. Kerton and Herbert M. Lefcourt, "Beyond Control? Predicting Consumer Behaviour Using a Measure for Consumer Locus of Control"; Ramesh Kumar, "On Optimal Capacity Expansion for DomesticProcessing of an Exhaustible, Natural Resource"; Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, "Foreign Aid and Population Policy: Some Ethical Considerations"; Walter Bossert, "Uncertainty Aversion in Nonprobabilistic Decision Models"; Robert Kerton, "Appropriate Products in Sustainable Development: Two Major Policies of the United Nations"; Wai-Ming Ho, "Credit Market Imperfections and Nominal Exchange Rate Regimes"; Wai-Ming Ho, "Government Spending, Credit Market Imperfections, and Economic Growth"; Michael K.Y. Fung, Wai-Ming Ho and Lijing Zhu, "Macroeconomic Control in the Transforming Chinese Economy: An Analysis of Long-Run Effect"; Ed Nosal, "Contract Renegotiation in a Continuous State Space"; Ed Nosal, "Optimal At-will Contracts"; Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, "Information Invariance in Variable-Population Social-Choice Problems"
The University of Western Ontario: Dept. of Economics, Research Report Series; Loretta Nott, "Hysteresis in the Canadian Labour Market: Evidence from the 1990s"; David Laidler, "American Macroeconomics Between World War I and the Depression"; Uzi Segal, "How to Escape Dutch Books in Dynamic Choice"; Uzi Segal, "Let's Agree that All Dictatorships are Equally Bad"; Robin Cowan, William Cowan and Peter Swann, "A Model of Demand with Interactions among Consumers"; David Laidler, "Notes on the Microfoudations of Monetary Economics"; Motty Perry and Daniel R. Vincent, "The Optimal Timing of Procurement Decisions and Patent Allocations"; Yeon-Koo Che and Tai-Yeong Chung, "Contract Damages and Cooperative Investments"; James B. Davies, "Wealth Inequality and Age"; Audra J. Bowlus, "Generation X, Search Theory, and the U.S.-Canadian Unemployment Rate and Wage Inequality Gaps During the 1980s"
Political Economy Research Group, Papers in Political Economy: James J. Heckman and Jeffrey Smith, "The Performance of Performance Standards: The Effects of JTPA Performance Standards on Efficiency, Equity and Participant Outcomes"; John F. Helliwel, "Do National Borders Matter for Quebec's Trade?"; Evan McKenzie, "Homeowner Association Private Governments in the American Political System"; Christof Rühl, Kenneth Serwin and Michal Kejak, "The Political Economy of Aggregate Budget Constraints or the A,B,C's of Industrial Restructuring in Russia"
Wilfrid Laurier University: Maria E. Gallego, "Economic Performance and Leadership Accountability: An Econometric Analysis"; Trien T. Nguyen, Carlo Perroni and Randall M. Wigle, "Uruguay Round Impacts on Canada"; Jean-Francois Wen and David R.F. Love, "Evaluating Tax Reforms in a Monetary Economy"
University of Winnipeg: Michael Benarroch, "Technical Change in a Ricardian Model of North-South Trade with External Economies of Scale"; Hugh Grant and Andrea Westlund, "Keynes' Utopia and the General Theory"; Bob Fenton and John Sinclair, "Requirements for Packaging Stewardship in the European Union and Canada"; Xiao-Yuan Dong, "Dynamic Trigger Strategies in Chinese Agricultural Teams"; Philippe Cyrenne, "Absolute Versus Relative Quality of Play: A General Model of Professional Sports Leagues"; Henry Thille, "Commodity Forward Markets with Imperfectly Competitive Producers"; Michael Benarroch and Henry Thille, "International Trade with Cross-Border Externalities"
York University: Arman Mansoorian, "Habits and Durability in Consumption, and the Dynamics of the Current Account"; Arman Mansoorian and Simon Neaime, "Habits and Durability in Consumption, and the Effects of the Tariff Protection"; Arman Mansoorian, "Risk Sharing and Redistribution in a Federal System with Population Mobility"; Arman Mansoorian, "Fiscal Externalities Over Long Horizons"; Arman Mansoorian and Gordon Myers, "Fiscal Externalities with Imperfect Population Mobility: The Three Region Case"; Arman Mansoorian and Simon Neaime, "Habits and Durability in Consumption, and the Effects of Exchange Rate Policies"; James G. MacKinnon, Alfred Haug and Leo Michelis, "Numerical Distribution Functions of Likelihood Ratio Tests for Cointegration"

Forthcoming Papers/Articles à Paraître

Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue Canadienne d'Economique: John E. Parsons, "A note on bankruptcy costs and the theory of oligopoly"; Koon Lam Shea, "The Welfare Impact of Tariff-induced International Capital Movement"; Vandana Chandra and Nadeem Naqvi, "Protection and the Shadow Price of Foreign Exchange with Increasing Returns and International Capital Mobility"; Bryan Campbell and Eric Ghysels, "An Empirical Analysis of the Canadian Budget Process"; Pierre Mohnen, Thijs ten Raa and Gilles Bourque, "Mesures de la croissance de la productivité dans un cadre d'équilibre général: l'économie du Québec entre 1978 et 1984"; Jeffrey I. Bernstein and Xiaoyi Yan, "International R&D Spillovers Between Canadian and Japanese Industries"; Mark G. Herander, "Tariff Policy with Intracountry Firm Mobility: A Spatial Analysis"; John S. Hughes, Stefanie Lenway and Judy Rayburn, "Stock Price Effects of U.S. Trade Policy Responses to Japanese Trading Practices in Semiconductors"; Hugh M. Neary and David Ulph, "Strategic Investment and the Co-existence of Labour-managed and Profit-maximising Firms"; David Andolfatto and Ed Nosal, "Optimal Team Contracts"; Tae-Hyung Kim, "Domestic Content Protection in a Dynamic Small Open Economy"; Chi-Chur Chao and Eden S.H. Yu, "Trade Liberalization in Oligopolistic Competition with Unemployment: A General Equilibrium Analysis"; John Beghin, David Roland-Holst and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe, "Trade and Pollution Linkages: Piecemeal Reform and Optimal Intervention"; Dan Usher, "Education as a Deterrent to Crime"; Robert W. Helsley and William C. Strange, "Limited Developers"; Zhiqi Chen, "Can Economic Activities Lead to Climatic Chaos?"; Leonard K. Cheng and Kar-yiu Wong, "Strategic Policies toward International Factor Mobility"; Joonsuk Chu and Roanld A. Ratti, "Effects of Unanticipated Monetary Policy on Aggregate Japanese Output: The Role of Positive and Negative Shocks"; Michael Bleany, "Invoicing-Currency Effects in the Pricing of Japanese Exports of Manufactures"; David Andolfatto, "Evidence and Theory on the Cyclical Asymmetry in Unemployment Rate Fluctuations"; Margaret E. Slade and Henry Thille, "Hotelling Confronts CAPM: A Test of the Theory of Exhaustible Resources"; Lisa Powell, "The Impact of Child Care Costs on the Labour Supply of Married Mothers: Evidence from Canada"; Stephen Gordon, Jean-Thomas Bernard and Josie Tremblay, "Electricity Prices and Elections in Québec"; Gregory W. Huffman, "An Equilibrium Analysis of Central Bank Independence and Inflation"; Stephen B. DeLoach, "Do Relative Prices on Non-traded Goods Determine Long-run Real Exchange Rates?"; Jing Lu, "Aggregate Disturbances or Sectoral Shifts: Canadian Evidence"; Mukesh Eswaran, "Cartel Unity over the Business Cycle"; Louis N. Christofides, Thanasis Stengos and Robert Swidinsky, "Welfare Participation and Labour Market Behaviour in Canada"; David H. Richardson, "Changes in the Distribution of Wages in Canada, 1981-1922"; Olli Tahvonen, "Fossil Fuels, Stock Externalities and Backstop Technology"; Georgios P. Kouretas, "Identifying Linear Restrictions on the Monetary Exchange Rate Model and the Uncovered Interest Parity: Cointegration Evidence from the Canadian-US Dollar"; Andrew C. Brod and Ram Shivakumar, "R&D Cooperation and the Joint Exploitation of R&D"; Apostolos Serletis and Panos C. Afxentiou, "Electoral and Partisan Cycle Regularities in Canada"; Alison Butler, "Product Cycles and Domestic Wage Inequality in Innovating Countries"; Derek C. Jones and Jeffrey Pliskin, "Determinants of the Incidence of Group Incentives: Evidence From Canada"; Ben S.C. Fung and Rohit Gupta, "Cash setting, the call loan rate, and the liquidity effect in Canada"; Keith Head and John Ries, "Immigration and Trade Creation: Econometric Evidence from Canada"; Peter W. Kennedy and Linda Welling, "Production Externalities and the Efficiency of Parental Childcare Choices"; Matthew A. Turner, "Parental Altruism and Common Property Regulation"; Nicolas Marceau, "Competition in Crime Deterrence"; Michael Benarroch, "Economies of Scale in Canadian Manufacturing: An Interprovincial Comparison"; John Spicer and Dan Bernhardt, "Durable Services Monopolists do better than Durable Goods Monopolists"; Keith Head and John Ries, "International Mergers and Welfare Under Decentralized Competition Policy"; Charles F. Mason and Stephen Polasky, "The Optimal Number of Firms in the Commons: A Dynamic Approach"; Karolina Ekholm and Johan Torstensson, "High-Technology Subsidies in General Equilibrium: A Sector-Specific Approach"; Edward F. Buffie, "Are Export Subsidies Less Inflationary than Devaluation?"; S. McCorriston and I.M. Sheldon, "The (Non-)Equivalence of Tariffs and Quantity Restraints as 'Rent-Shifting' Policies"
Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques: Kathryn Schellenberg, "Police Information Systems, Information Practices and Personal Privacy"; David Leadbeater and Peter Suschnigg, "Training as the Principal Focus of Adjustment Policy: A Critical View from Northern Ontario"; Dane Rowlands, "International Aspects of the Division of Debt under Secession: The Case of Quebec and Canada"; Pierre-Gerlier Forest, "La question de l'équité dans le systéme de santé du Québec"

Volume 15 February 1997

Volume 15
February 1997