We build a unique industry-level panel data set to estimate border effects with respect to U.S.Canada trade for each year from 1992 to 2005. Estimates from data aggregated at the province/state level yield border effects in the early 1990s that increase slightly and then decline after the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), but significantly increase after 2001. R...

'If I only had the right information, I could make an informed decision'. How often have you heard that comment? With the information technology currently at our disposal, one would think that the right information would be available and that all decisions would be sound. However, users must still determine what data provides valuable information and what are the limitations of the soundness of...

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are important for the future of the transportation systems industry. Although widely regarded as a new and powerful contribution to transportation systems, ITS however, may have a substantial effect on other industries as well. The aim of this study is to understand the impact that ITS may have on the Michigan economy. The methodical approach used to eva...

In this paper we show that the moduli space of twisted polygons in G/P , where G is semisimple and P parabolic, and where g has two coordinated gradations, has a natural Poisson bracket that is directly linked to G-invariant evolutions of polygons. This structure is obtained by reducing the quotient twisted bracket on GN defined in [23] to the moduli space GN/PN . We prove that any Hamiltonian ...

The current study explores the relationship between personality traits and self-presentation at Facebook. An online survey of Facebook users was conducted. The results suggest that extraversion was positively related to self-presentation both on Wall and at News Feed. Extraverts uploaded photos and updated status more frequently, and had more friends displayed on Wall than introverts. Besides, ...

The role of Emergency Medicine Physicians (EMP) in the care of trauma patients in North America has evolved since the advent of the specialty in the late 1980's. The evolution of this role in the context of the overall demands of the specialty and accreditation requirements of North American trauma centers will be discussed. Limited available data published in the literature examining the role ...

Based on a systematic review of the scientific literature, the North West Oxygen Group have developed guidelines for oxygen therapy for patients who present with acute breathlessness. The above emergency medicine physicians, chest physicians and intensive care physicians have gained approval from their regional societies to have this document accepted as the agreed regional guidelines for the u...

What is the information content of news-based measures of sentiment? How are they related to aggregate economic fluctuations? I construct a sentiment index by measuring the net amount of positive expressions in the corpus of Economic news articles produced by Reuters over the period 1987 2013 and across 12 countries. The index successfully tracks fluctuations in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at ...

We extend back to 1890 the volatility implied by options index (VIX), available only since 1986, using the frequency of words on the front-page of the Wall Street Journal. News implied volatility (NVIX) captures well the disaster concerns of the average investor over this longer history. NVIX is particularly high during stock market crashes, times of policy-related uncertainty, world wars and f...