A Provincial View of Economic Integration /

This paper develops a method of testing levels of economic integration based upon consumption smoothing, and tests it using data on trade balances across Canadian provinces. The results indicate the provinces are highly integrated within Canada, but integration between Canada and the rest of the wor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klein, Michael
Other Authors: Bayoumi, Tamim
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/041
Online Access:Full text available on IMF