Working Paper Series

The Working paper Series is intended as a means of diffusing research findings from Industry Canada projects for discussion and comment.

Working papers are circulated in the language in which they were written.

The papers reflect the views of the authors and no responsibilty for them should be attributed to Industry Canada or the federal government. Comments on the papers are invited and may be sent directly to the authors.

If you have general enquiries, please email us at MEPA.

Working papers

• Policy Responses to the New Offshoring: Think Globally, Invest Locally
, by Daniel Trefler.
• Research and Development Composition and Labour Productivity Growth in 16 OECD Countries
, by Ram C. Acharya and Serge Coulombe.
• The Impact of Foreign Ownership on Aggregate R&D; Intensity: A Critical Review of the Empirical Evidence
, by Donald McFetridge.
• Unbalanced Industry Demand and Supply Shifts: Implications to Economic Growth in Canada and the United States
, by Anik Dufour, Jianmin Tang and Weimin Wang.
• Vertical Linkages and Innovation
, by Gamal Atallah and Hong Ding.
• Benchmarking Structure-Conduct-Performance Indicators of Competitive Intensity in Canadian Industries
, by Henry Thille.
• Productivity, Business Practices and Advanced Technologies in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector
, by Anik Dufour, Alice Nakamura and Jianmin Tang.
• What Explains the Canada-U.S. TFP Gap?
, by Someshwar Rao, Jianmin Tang and Weimin Wang.
• Canada's Productivity in Goods Production and Services in International Comparative Perspective
, by Robert Inklaar, Marcel Timmer and Bart van Ark. New
• What Explains the Canada-U.S. Capital Intensity Gap?
, by Someshwar Rao, Jianmin Tang and Weimin Wang.New
• The Evolution of the World's Technology Frontier, 1973-2002
, by Ram Acharya and Wolfgang Keller.New

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Working and other research papers published between 1994 and 2004 are in the Archived Papers (1994-2004) section below.