It is generally accepted that convergence is well established for regional Canadian per capita outputs. The authors present evidence that long-run movements are driven by two stochastic common trends in this time series. This evidence casts doubt on the convergence hypothesis for Canada. Another prevalent belief is that Canada forms an optimal currency area (OCA). The authors uncover three seri...

The aim of the paper is to determine how profiles of annual extraction volumes would have differed under alternative policy objectives, conditional on optimizing behaviour and perfect knowledge about assumed future demand and supply functions, and the extent of the phosphate reserves. Three dynamic optimisation problems are formulated and solved for the following three objective functions, with...

The documents of M. Finley in the library Cambridge University and personal fund V. N. Andreev manuscript department Russian National Library Saint Petersburg contain letters from two historians. correspondence shows that Soviet scientist was not only a situational Finlean, but also quite consciously followed principles Finley’s work with sources. Acquaintance works him significantly influenced...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of completed elective total hip replacements in a defined elderly population. DESIGN Cross sectional postal questionnaire survey with additional data and validation from general practice and hospital records. SETTING Six general practices in the English counties of Avon, Somerset, and Oxfordshire. SUBJECTS A total of 7806 patients aged 65 years and ov...

Coronary heart disease (CHD) morbidity, disability and mortality remain high in the U.S. and constitute a major challenge to medical science and public health. Annual economic costs (direct and indirect) of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in this country in 2001 are estimated to exceed $298.2 billion (1). Over the last half-century, a remarkable pattern has been observed in trends of the CHD epid...