This study uses the 1989 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement as a source of exogenous shock to product markets to establish a causal effect of competition on acquisition returns to shareholders. Following the agreement, acquirers exposed to greater increases in competitive pressure experience higher announcement returns. The positive impact of increased competition is stronger in acquirers with re...

Using a competitive two-country two-commodity monetary model with optimizing agents in which persistent unemployment arises, this paper examines the effects of trade restrictions on consumption and employment in the two countries. When facing unemployment, a country tends to impose an import restriction so that domestic firms will increase production and raise employment. However, this policy i...

We present the timing analysis results for our observations of the x-ray dip source X1916-053 conducted with RXTE between February and October of 1996. Our goal was to finally measure the binary period-as either the x-ray dip period or ∼1% longer optical modulation period, thereby establishing if the binary has a precessing disk (SU UMa model) or a third star (triple model). Combined with histo...

The RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (1E Pol ) is involved in replication of grapevine fanleaf virus (GFLV, Nepovirus , Secoviridae and causes vein clearing symptoms Nicotiana benthamiana . Information on protein 1E interaction with other viral host proteins scarce. To study biology, three GFLV infectious clones, i.e. GHu (a symptomatic wild-type strain), GHu-1E K802G (an asymptomatic mutant) F13 w...