W A Kerr
Biographic Data
| ID | 378975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W A Kerr |
| GIVEN NAMES | W A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kerr |
| SIGNATURE | KERR W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Saskatchewan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5716-6261 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1891 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Treating the Firm Like an Extended Family: Communication and Trust-Building in an Early Canadian Multinational Mineral Exploration Company
Boyles Brothers Drilling Company was a Canadian diamond drilling firm primarily engaged in mineral exploration. At the end of the Second World War, it was well positioned to take part in the resource-based expansion of the Canadian economy. Headquartered in Vancouver it expanded operations across Canada. Its expertise was sought out in other parts of the world where mineral exploration was occurring, and the company became a multinational. The co…
Linking investment decisions and future food security to the regulation of genetic-based technologies
Importer's risk, smuggling and the role of incentives in the management of animal diseases
Technological Solutions to Authenticity Issues in International Trade: The Case of Cites Listed Endangered Species
Governance Issues in the EU's e‐Procurement Framework
Government procurement accounts for a considerable proportion of economic activity in the E uropean U nion ( EU ) yet resists integration and harmonization. The E uropean Commission believes that the solution to integrating government procurement into the single market lies in e‐procurement. While technology has the potential to improve the efficacy of procurement processes among EU Member States, its use raises governance issues that must be add…
Transforming Vietnam: A Quest for Improved Efficiency and Transparency in Central Government Procurement
This case study on Vietnam investigates how a country's institutional framework can determine its participation in the World Trade Organization's Government Procurement Agreement (GPA). Using a cost-benefit approach, this article explores the relationship between institutional framework and procurement liberalisation, and examines how effective institutional reforms can trigger liberalisation. Findings show that the critical success factors for i…
‘Big Men’ and Little Trade
It is a familiar scene: black limousines with flags fluttering on the wings arriving at a banner bedecked conference centre sporting a new coat of paint. Fierce, burly men in dark glasses and black suits escort two or more of Africa’s flamboyant Big Men into the venue as the television cameras whir, digital cameras flash and smartly dressed school children wave small flags on cue. In the hall the Big Men make the obligatory speeches about the wis…
Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey
This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration.The survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries.The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers into host-country labor markets and concomitant effects for natives.The paper then turns to immigration's impact for the public finances of host countries.The final section considers emerging top…
Agriculture in the Canada-EU Economic and Trade Agreement
According to article 24 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), preferential arrangements (custom unions) and free areas are allowed by the World Trade Organization (WTO). The GATT requires that these agreements cover all and that existing external tariffs should not be raised by the countries concluding free agreements. Article 24 of GATT stipulates that:A free-trade area shall be understood to mean a group of two or more customs t…
Conflict, Chaos and Confusion: The Crisis in the International Trading System
A New World Chaos? International Institutions in the Information Age
The technological revolutions that underlie the new information age will tax considerably the abilities of existing international institutions to bring order to international relations. Rapid rates of change may lead to chaos if international institutions cannot evolve to accommodate those changes. In some cases, new organisations will be required. The role given international organisations in establishing order in the latter half of the 20th cen…
Consumer preferences and the international harmonization of organic standards
Consumer information, labelling and international trade in agri-food products
The Russian Oil Economy
Ethics, domestic food policy and trade law: Assessing the EU animal welfare proposal to the WTO
The second system: Institutional compromise or compromised institutions in the Hong Kong special administrative region
Making the concept of ‘one country, two systems’ operational in Hong Kong has been a significant challenge for China. The institutions of government put in place for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) had to satisfy a delicate balance between the Communist Party's need to ensure that the HKSAR poses no threat to its continued pre‐eminence in China and providing an environment whereby Hong Kong's economy would continue to prosper.…
Can trade measures induce compliance with trips
Protection of intellectual property on the Asia‐Pacific Rim is weak. Piracy, counterfeiting and other violations of intellectual property in Asian economies with rising technical capabilities were the primary motivation for developed countries’ insistence on protection for intellectual property being included in the Uruguay Round negotiations. One of the central elements of the new World Trade Organization (WTO) is the Agreement on Trade Related …
Nuclear accidents, impact assessment, and disaster administration: Post-chernobyl insights for agriculture in Canada
China's Changing Development Strategy: The Case of Rural Electrification
Rural electrification is necessary if rural incomes are to keep pace with those of urban dwellers as an economy develops. The recent changes in China's development strategies have altered both the emphasis and form of electrification strategies. The move away from small local power generation to an emphasis on large projects and extension of the electrical grid are likely to have two effects. First, as the extension of the grid to rural consumers…
Studies of Canadian politics: Implications of the increasing emphasis on monetary policy for the federal state: The case of Canada
The Changing Economics of the Western Livestock Industry
William A. Kerr, The Changing Economics of the Western Livestock Industry, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 11, Supplement: Western Canadian Economic Development: Energy Policy and Alternative Strategies / Le developpement economique de l'ouest du Canada: Politiques energetiques et alternatives strategiques (Jul., 1985), pp. 294-300
The theory and practice of economic relations between CMEA member states and African countries
Home Environment in American Cities
The home environment-cultural, aesthetic, and economic-of 16,445 eighth-grade children in 42 cities in 20 states was measured by means of the American Home Scale. The cities chosen were approximately equally spaced on Thorndike's G scale. Averages and standard deviations are reported. Correlations of city averages with Thorndike's G (goodness of living), I (income), and P (personality) indices yield low or substantially zero values. Thus, the Ame…
Correlates of Politico-Economic Liberalism-Conservatism
The psychological background of industrial broadcasting
Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey
This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration.The survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries.The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers into host-country labor markets and concomitant effects for natives.The paper then turns to immigration's impact for the public finances of host countries.The final section considers emerging top…
Consumer information, labelling and international trade in agri-food products
Ethics, domestic food policy and trade law: Assessing the EU animal welfare proposal to the WTO
Governance Issues in the EU's e‐Procurement Framework
Government procurement accounts for a considerable proportion of economic activity in the E uropean U nion ( EU ) yet resists integration and harmonization. The E uropean Commission believes that the solution to integrating government procurement into the single market lies in e‐procurement. While technology has the potential to improve the efficacy of procurement processes among EU Member States, its use raises governance issues that must be add…
Transforming Vietnam: A Quest for Improved Efficiency and Transparency in Central Government Procurement
This case study on Vietnam investigates how a country's institutional framework can determine its participation in the World Trade Organization's Government Procurement Agreement (GPA). Using a cost-benefit approach, this article explores the relationship between institutional framework and procurement liberalisation, and examines how effective institutional reforms can trigger liberalisation. Findings show that the critical success factors for i…
Agriculture in the Canada-EU Economic and Trade Agreement
According to article 24 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), preferential arrangements (custom unions) and free areas are allowed by the World Trade Organization (WTO). The GATT requires that these agreements cover all and that existing external tariffs should not be raised by the countries concluding free agreements. Article 24 of GATT stipulates that:A free-trade area shall be understood to mean a group of two or more customs t…
The second system: Institutional compromise or compromised institutions in the Hong Kong special administrative region
Making the concept of ‘one country, two systems’ operational in Hong Kong has been a significant challenge for China. The institutions of government put in place for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) had to satisfy a delicate balance between the Communist Party's need to ensure that the HKSAR poses no threat to its continued pre‐eminence in China and providing an environment whereby Hong Kong's economy would continue to prosper.…
Riding for ladies
What I have said on the excellence of horse-exercise for boys and men,, applies equally to girls and women, if, indeed, it does not recommend itself more especially in the case of the latter.For the most part the pursuits of women are so quiet and sedentary that the body is rarely called into that complete activity of all the muscles which is essential to their perfect development, and which produces the strength and freedom of movement so indisp…
The psychological background of industrial broadcasting
Correlates of Politico-Economic Liberalism-Conservatism
Home Environment in American Cities
The home environment-cultural, aesthetic, and economic-of 16,445 eighth-grade children in 42 cities in 20 states was measured by means of the American Home Scale. The cities chosen were approximately equally spaced on Thorndike's G scale. Averages and standard deviations are reported. Correlations of city averages with Thorndike's G (goodness of living), I (income), and P (personality) indices yield low or substantially zero values. Thus, the Ame…
The theory and practice of economic relations between CMEA member states and African countries
The Changing Economics of the Western Livestock Industry
William A. Kerr, The Changing Economics of the Western Livestock Industry, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 11, Supplement: Western Canadian Economic Development: Energy Policy and Alternative Strategies / Le developpement economique de l'ouest du Canada: Politiques energetiques et alternatives strategiques (Jul., 1985), pp. 294-300
Studies of Canadian politics: Implications of the increasing emphasis on monetary policy for the federal state: The case of Canada
China's Changing Development Strategy: The Case of Rural Electrification
Rural electrification is necessary if rural incomes are to keep pace with those of urban dwellers as an economy develops. The recent changes in China's development strategies have altered both the emphasis and form of electrification strategies. The move away from small local power generation to an emphasis on large projects and extension of the electrical grid are likely to have two effects. First, as the extension of the grid to rural consumers…
Nuclear accidents, impact assessment, and disaster administration: Post-chernobyl insights for agriculture in Canada
Can trade measures induce compliance with trips
Protection of intellectual property on the Asia‐Pacific Rim is weak. Piracy, counterfeiting and other violations of intellectual property in Asian economies with rising technical capabilities were the primary motivation for developed countries’ insistence on protection for intellectual property being included in the Uruguay Round negotiations. One of the central elements of the new World Trade Organization (WTO) is the Agreement on Trade Related …
The second system: Institutional compromise or compromised institutions in the Hong Kong special administrative region
Making the concept of ‘one country, two systems’ operational in Hong Kong has been a significant challenge for China. The institutions of government put in place for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) had to satisfy a delicate balance between the Communist Party's need to ensure that the HKSAR poses no threat to its continued pre‐eminence in China and providing an environment whereby Hong Kong's economy would continue to prosper.…
Ethics, domestic food policy and trade law: Assessing the EU animal welfare proposal to the WTO
The Russian Oil Economy
Consumer information, labelling and international trade in agri-food products
Consumer preferences and the international harmonization of organic standards
Conflict, Chaos and Confusion: The Crisis in the International Trading System
A New World Chaos? International Institutions in the Information Age
The technological revolutions that underlie the new information age will tax considerably the abilities of existing international institutions to bring order to international relations. Rapid rates of change may lead to chaos if international institutions cannot evolve to accommodate those changes. In some cases, new organisations will be required. The role given international organisations in establishing order in the latter half of the 20th cen…
Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey
This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration.The survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries.The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers into host-country labor markets and concomitant effects for natives.The paper then turns to immigration's impact for the public finances of host countries.The final section considers emerging top…
Agriculture in the Canada-EU Economic and Trade Agreement
According to article 24 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), preferential arrangements (custom unions) and free areas are allowed by the World Trade Organization (WTO). The GATT requires that these agreements cover all and that existing external tariffs should not be raised by the countries concluding free agreements. Article 24 of GATT stipulates that:A free-trade area shall be understood to mean a group of two or more customs t…
‘Big Men’ and Little Trade
It is a familiar scene: black limousines with flags fluttering on the wings arriving at a banner bedecked conference centre sporting a new coat of paint. Fierce, burly men in dark glasses and black suits escort two or more of Africa’s flamboyant Big Men into the venue as the television cameras whir, digital cameras flash and smartly dressed school children wave small flags on cue. In the hall the Big Men make the obligatory speeches about the wis…
Governance Issues in the EU's e‐Procurement Framework
Government procurement accounts for a considerable proportion of economic activity in the E uropean U nion ( EU ) yet resists integration and harmonization. The E uropean Commission believes that the solution to integrating government procurement into the single market lies in e‐procurement. While technology has the potential to improve the efficacy of procurement processes among EU Member States, its use raises governance issues that must be add…
Transforming Vietnam: A Quest for Improved Efficiency and Transparency in Central Government Procurement
This case study on Vietnam investigates how a country's institutional framework can determine its participation in the World Trade Organization's Government Procurement Agreement (GPA). Using a cost-benefit approach, this article explores the relationship between institutional framework and procurement liberalisation, and examines how effective institutional reforms can trigger liberalisation. Findings show that the critical success factors for i…
Technological Solutions to Authenticity Issues in International Trade: The Case of Cites Listed Endangered Species
Linking investment decisions and future food security to the regulation of genetic-based technologies
Importer's risk, smuggling and the role of incentives in the management of animal diseases
Economics (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Business (15 works) · Law (10 works) · International trade (9 works) · Global trade and economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Government (linguistics (5 works)