Issue 2

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December 1980
Articles: 

Foreign Trade and US Market Performance

 THE openness of the US economy appears to be secularly increasing.

Concentration and Profitability in a Small Open Economy

 IN industrial organization, it is commonly accepted that concentration ratios are useful indices of market power and that a positive relationship exists between these indices and profitability.

Testing Two Models of Pricing and Protection with Canada/United States Data

 THE nature of the relationship between world prices, tariff protection and domestic prices is of importance to economic theory and policy.

Import Competition and the Profitability of United Kingdom Manufacturing Industry

 THIS paper examines the effect of import competition on the profitability of a cross-section of 32 manufacturing industries in the United Kingdom.

The Determinants of Productivity in Canadian Manufacturing Industries

 THIS study is an examination of the factors which explain the inter-industry variation of the productivity of Canadian manufacturing industries relative to the productivity of counterpart indust

Producer-Concentration as a Proxy for Seller-Concentration: Some Evidence from the World Automotive Industry

 SELLER-CONCENTRATION plays a major role in most theories of market-behavior and market-performance.

Sizes of Firms, Exporting Behavior, and the Structure of French Industry

 THE lowering of tariffs among the European Community (EC) countries in the I96os provides a splendid laboratory experiment on the relation between international trade and industrial organization