Issue 2

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December 1979
Articles: 

The Welfare Economics of Product Variety: An Application to the Ready-to- Eat Cereals Industry

 EVER since the publication of Chamberlin's Theory of Monopolistic Competition [6], economists have known that how well a market economy solves the three-way trade-off among product variety, econ

Optimal Price Policy Following Product-Specific Technical Change

 BY its very nature, a multi-product firm is one in which there are likely to be interdependencies in the costs of producing the goods, and/or in the demands of consumers for the products.

Modelling of New Orders for Private Industrial Building

 THIS paper examines the determinants of new orders for non-residential construction work received from the private industrial sector.

Explaining Differences in Cyclical Employment Behaviour in Thirteen Canadian Food and Beverage Processing Industries

 THIS paper reports research into the level of employment in I3 Canadian food and beverage manufacturing industries, using pooled quarterly data to estimate econometric equations over the period

Dynamics of Canadian Deposit-Taking Institutions: A Markovian Approach

 The Canadian financial system includes several types of financial institutions Of these, four main groups act as deposit-taking institutions.

Size Structure, Turnover, and Mobility of the Largest Manufacturing Firms in a Developing Country: The Case of the Philippines

 THE direction and the rate of development of industry in third world countries is not independent of the concentration of control of the productive resources within these economies.

Some Limitations of Long-Run Production Modeling with Pseudo-Data

 RECENTLY Griffin [4], [5], [6], [7] has introduced a new methodological tool for long-run production modeling.

Firm Size and Operating Costs in Urban Bus Transportation

 INCREASED urban congestion, the energy crisis, the uncertainty of future energy supplies, and the realization that the automobile cannot effectively meet the travel demands of the urban populati

The Founders of New Manufacturing Firms: A Note on the Size of their `Incubator' Plants

 IN an article in this journal in 1955 Beesley [2] put forward the proposition that larger plants may provide better incubator environments than smaller ones for stimulating the growth of entrepr