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 Many of my contributions to Canadian
competitiveness can be found in the working papers of the Institute for Competitiveness &
Prosperity and the annual reports of the Ontario Task Force on Competitiveness,
Productivity and Economic Progress.
The contributions can be found at www.competeprosper.ca
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“The
New World Division of Labor” with Elhanan Helpman. Paper
prepared for the Conference “Offshore Outsourcing: Capitalizing on Lessons Learned,”
Roman
School of Management, University
of Toronto, October
26-27, 2006. Sponsored by Industry Canada and the Rotman School
of Management
“Think
Globally, Invest Locally: Responding to the Rise of Offshoring.”
Rotman Magazine, Fall 2005, pages 42-45.
For the full-length version of
this paper (Industry Canada Working Paper Series #2006-01) click
here.
For a Powerpoint
slide show click
here.
“Successful
Economies, Failed Economics: What the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement
Teaches Us about International Economics.”
In The Macdonald Commission Report 20
Years On. Edited by David Laidler and Bill
Robson. Toronto: C.D. Howe Institute, 2005, pages 111-120.
“What
Happened When Two Rich Countries Liberalized Trade? Pain, and Then Gain,”
by Virginia Postrel, New York Times Magazine,
January 27, 2005, page C2.
This is a write-up of my American
Economic Review article called “The
Long and Short of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.”
“Looking
Back: How Childhood Experiences Impact a Nation’s Wealth.”
Rotman Magazine, Spring/Summer 2004, pages 13-16.
For the full-length version of
this paper click
here.
For a Powerpoint
slide show click here.
“Multinationals
and the Location of Production.”
This is a presentation I made at the United Nations Conference on
Project Link. Link is the UN’s macroeconomic model of the world. (2003)
“Competitiveness: A Special Series” in The
National Post, Financial Post Section. I was the series editor for a
12-part weekly series on Canadian competitiveness. My series introduction,
"Defrocking the Priests of Productivity" appeared on May 13, 2002,
page FP11.
“Does
Canada Need a Productivity Budget?” Policy Options, 20 (July-August
1999): 66-71.
“Quality
vs. Quantity.” The Globe & Mail Report on Business Magazine,
July 1999, pages 57-58.
“Immigrants
and Natives in General Equilibrium Trade Models.” This was a paper commissioned
by the U.S. congress via
the National Academy of Sciences on U.S. immigration policy. It
is published in The Immigration Debate: Studies on the Economic,
Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of ImmigrationPolicy
Optionsedited
by James P. Smith and Barry Edmonston. Washington D.C.:
National Academy Press, 1998, pages 206-238.
“No Pain, No Gain:
Lessons from the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.” in Incomes
and Productivity in North America. Dallas: Bernan Press and the Commission for Labor Cooperation,
1997, pages 25-42.
“Canada
and the Asian Pacific.” ACS Bulletin, Vol. 20 (Spring,1998): 11-14. Montreal:
Association for Canadian Studies (With Walid Hejazi.) This is a
summary of a paper on whether Canada
should pursue trade policies focused on the Asian Pacific.
For the full paper see “Canada
and the Asia Pacific: Views from the
Gravity, Monopolistic Competition, and Heckscher-Ohlin
Models” In The Asia-Pacific Region in the Global Economic: A
Canadian Perspective edited by Richard G Harris. Calgary:
University of Calgary, 1996, pages 47-83. (With
Walid Hejazi.)
“My
Brains and Your Looks: Canada in an Innovative World.” CIAR Working
Paper. This was a paper prepared for the Canadian Deputy Ministers Retreat, January
27, 1999
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