Government of Canada

About: Government of Canada is a government organization based out in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Monetary policy & Debt. The organization has 796 authors who have published 886 publications receiving 21366 citations. The organization is also known as: federal government of Canada & Her Majesty's Government.

Calibrating the Electronic Scales: Tipping the Balance in Favour of a Vigorous and Competitive Electronic Market for Consumers

Abstract: This paper was originally delivered at the Canada-United States Law Institute conference on "The Impact of Technological Change in the Canada/U.S. Context" at Case Western Reserve University, School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio, April 16-18, 1999. The article focuses on identifying consumer concerns with respect to the evolving electronic marketplace and discusses some responses to those concerns in the Canadian context. It discusses the establishment of principles of consumer protection for electronic commerce; the role of voluntary codes and self-regulation; and government and private sector privacy initiatives. The article explores the application of the misleading advertising and deceptive marketing practices provisions of the Competition Act to representations made over the Internet. Finally, the article outlines the need for enhanced co-operation and communication between enforcement agencies on an international level, and the importance of consumer education.

Labor Market Responses to Unemployment Insurance: The Role of Heterogeneity

Abstract: We document considerable scope of heterogeneity within the unemployed, especially when the unemployed are divided along eligibility and receipt of unemployment insurance (UI). We study the implications of this heterogeneity on UI’s insurance-incentive trade-off using a heterogeneous-agent job-search model capable of matching the wealth and income differences that distinguish UI recipients from non-recipients. Insurance benefits are larger for UI recipients who are predominantly wealth-poor. Meanwhile, incentive costs are nonmonotonic in wealth because the poorest individuals, who value employment, exhibit weak responses. Differential elasticities imply that accounting for the composition of recipients is material to aligning model predictions with empirical estimates.

Financial Integration and Growth - Is Emerging Europe Different?

Abstract: Using industry-level data, this paper shows that the European transition region benefited much more strongly from financial integration in terms of economic growth than other developing countries in the years preceding the current crisis. We analyze several factors that may explain this finding: financial development, institutional quality, trade integration, political integration, and financial integration itself. The explanation that stands out is political integration. Within the group of transition countries, the effect of financial integration is strongest for countries that are politically closest to the EU. This suggests that political and financial integration are complementary and that political integration can considerably increase the benefits of financial integration.

Remembering the Monarch

Abstract: The Quee's influence in Canada is waning, as nearly everyone agrees. Yet a majority of Canadians must regret this decline, because opinion polls have shown that for every one Canadian who wants to abolish the monarchy, two want to preserve it. Canadians, it would appear, have resigned themselves to accepting their countr's gradual transformation into a republic, as though it were part of some larger inevitable process. Many of them, for example, continue to support electorally a political party that, since the days of William Lyon Mackenzie King, has had a policy of dissociating Canada from her British imperial past. In 1972, a special joint parliamentary committee formed by the Trudeau government to study the constitution declared that it “preferred a Canadian as Head of State for Canada.”