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2020
- 299 TFSAs: One More Case for Longer-Term Mortgages: Financial Stability
by Michael Feldman
2019
- 298 TFSAs: Time for a Tune-Up
by Alex Laurin - 297 The Big Shakeup: Making Sense of the OECD Digital Tax Proposals
by Jeffrey Trossman & Jeffrey Shafer - 296 Keeping Score: Investor-State Dispute Awards between the US and Canada
by Lawrence Herman - 295 Funding for Results in Higher Education
by Alex Usher - 294 The Paycheck Blues: Why Extra Work is often Not Worth the Effort for Lower-income Families
by Alex Laurin - 293 Inflation after the Crisis: What’s the Story?
by Jeremy Kronick & Farah Omran - 292 Growth Surge: How Private Equity Can Scale Up Firms and the Economy
by Daniel Schwanen & Jeremy Kronick & Farah Omran - 291 Why We Fail to Catch Money Launderers 99.9 percent of the Time
by Kevin Comeau - 290 Healthcare Spending Overshoots a Threat to Sustainability
by William Robson - 289 Moving the Coal-Posts: Ottawa’s Wrong Turn on Carbon Pricing for Electricity Generation
by Grant Bishop - 288 Measuring and Managing the Unknown: Methane Emissions from the Oil and Gas Value Chain
by Sarah Marie Jordaan & Kate Konschnik - 287 Mothers at Work: The Fiscal Implications of the Proposed Ontario Childcare Rebate
by Alexandre Laurin & Jacob Kim
2018
- 286 Business Tax Burdens in Canada’s Major Cities: The 2018 Report Card
by Adam Found & Peter Tomlinson - 285 Assessing Active Labour-Market Programs: How Effective is Ontario Works?
by Jason Adams & Ken Chow & David Rose - 284 The Rocky Road to Canada-wide Carbon Pricing
by Tracy Snoddon - 283 Unhappy Returns: A Preliminary Estimate of Taxpayers Responsiveness to the 2016 Top Tax Rate Hike
by Alexandre Laurin - 282 Rich Man, Poor Man: The Policy Implications of Canadians Living Longer
by Kevin Milligan & Tammy Schirle - 281 Hosing Homebuyers: Why Cities Should Not Pay for Water and Wastewater Infrastructure with Development Charges
by Benjamin Dachis - 280 Foreign Direct Investment in Canada – The Case for Further Openness and Transparency
by Daniel Schwanen - 279 Speed Bump Ahead: Ottawa Should Drive Slowly on Clean Fuel Standards
by Benjamin Dachis - 278 Deferring Receipt of Public Pension Benefits: A Tool for Flexibility
by Antoine Genest-Grégoire & René Beaudry & Luc Godbout & Bernard Morency - 277 Modernizing Canada’s Healthcare System through the Virtualization of Services
by R. Sacha Bhatia & William Falk - 276 Buildings with Benefits: The Defect of Density Bonusing
by Aaron A. Moore - 275 Healthcare Costs in Canada: Stopping Bad News Getting Worse
by William B.P. Robson - 274 Inflated Expectations: More Immigrants Can’t Solve Canada’s Aging Problem on Their Own
by William B.P. Robson & Parisa Mahboubi - 273 Canada’s 2018 Innovation Policy Report Card
by Daniel Schwanen - 272 Measuring Student Outcomes: The Case for Identifying Indigenous Students in Canada’s PISA Sample
by John Richards & Parisa Mahboubi - 271 Reality Bites: How Canada’s Healthcare System Compares to its International Peers
by Colin Busby & Ramya Muthukaran & Aaron Jacobs - 270 Two-Parent Families with Children: How Effective Tax Rates Affect Work Decisions
by Alexandre Laurin
2017
- 269 Business Tax Burdens in Canada’s Major Cities: The 2017 Report Card
by Adam Found & Peter Tomlinson - 268 The Fiscal Implications of Canadians’ Working Longer
by William B.P. Robson & Colin Busby & Aaron Jacobs - 267 Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation: More Educated, But Less Skilled Canadians
by Parisa Mahboubi - 266 Flying Below the Radar: The Harmful Impact of Ontario’s Business Property Tax
by Adam Found - 265 No Need to Reinvent the Wheel: Promoting Donations of Private Company Shares and Real Estate
by Adam Aptowitzer - 264 Closing the Divide: Progress and Challenges in Adult Skills Development among Indigenous Peoples
by Parisa Mahboubi & Colin Busby - 263 Ontario’s Green Energy Experience: Sobering Lessons for Sustainable Climate Change Policies
by Michael Trebilcock - 262 Immigrants’ Source Country Education and Their Canadian Labour Market
by Qing Li - 261 Table Stakes: Congress Will be Sitting across from Canada at the NAFTA 2.0 Negotiations
by Christopher Sands - 260 Adding More Juice: How Private Investors can Improve the Performance of Provincial Power Assets
by Steven Robins - 259 Casting Off: How Ottawa Can Maximize the Value of Canada’s Major Ports and Benefit Taxpayers
by Steven Robins - 258 Premium Compensation: The Ballooning Cost of Federal Government Employees
by William B.P. Robson & Alexandre Laurin - 257 Surge Capacity: Selling City-owned Electricity Distributors to Meet Broader Municipal Infrastructure Needs
by Steven Robins - 256 Bigger CPP, Bigger Risks: What “Fully Funded” Expansion Means and Doesn’t Mean
by William B.P. Robson & Alexandre Laurin - 255 Equipment Failure: Feeble Business Investment Costs Canadians their Competitive Edge
by William B.P. Robson & Benjamin Dachis & Aaron Jacobs - 254 Promoting Innovation and Efficiencies through Changes to the Competition Bureau’s Merger Review Process
by Brian Facey & Joshua Krane - 253 A Better Flight Path: How Ottawa can Cash In on Airports and Benefit Travellers
by Steven Robins - 252 How Concerned Should We Be About Differing Fundraising Capabilities and School Results? The Toronto District School Board Example
by David Johnson & Huijie Guo
2016
- 251 The effect of business property and land transfer taxes on new investment
by Adam Found & Peter Tomlinson - 250 Takeover Rules: In Support of the Longer Minimum Bid Period
by Sharon Geraghty - 249 Putting Money to Work: Monetary Policy in a Low Interest Rate Environment
by Steve Ambler - 248 Swimming with Whales: How to Encourage Competition from Small Banks
by John Jason - 247 Carbon Copies: The Prospects for an Economy-wide Carbon Price in Canada
by Tracy Snoddon - 246 Healthcare Spending Decelerating? Not so Fast!
by William B.P. Robson - 245 Ripple Effects: Oil Price Shocks and Monetary Policy
by Steve Ambler - 244 Clearing the Air: How Canadian LNG Exports Could Help Meet World Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals
by James Coleman & Sarah M. Jordaan - 243 Taking the Economic Pulse: An Improved Tool to Help Track Economic Cycles in Canada
by Jeremy Kronick - 242 A Blueprint for Going Green: The Best Policy Mix for Promoting Low-Emissions Technology
by David Popp - 241 The Pressing Question: Does CPP Expansion Help Low Earners?
by Kevin Milligan & Tammy Schirle - 240 The Naylor Report and Health Policy: Canada Needs a New Model
by Åke Blomqvist & Colin Busby - 239 Rights of Passage: The Economic Effects of Raising the DMT Threshold in Canada
by Christine McDaniel & Simon Schropp & Olim Latipov - 238 How Spending Declines with Age, and the Implications for Workplace Pension Plans
by Frederick Vettese - 237 DC Plans and the ORPP: Why Fees Matter
by James Pierlot & Barry Gros - 236 Better in than Out? Canada and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
by Dan Ciuriak & Ali Dadkhah & Jingliang Xiao - 235 Joint Venture: A Blueprint for Federal and Provincial Marijuana Policy
by Anindya Sen - 234 Auditing the Auditors: Tax Auditors' Assessments and Incentives
by Ken Klassen - 233 Mounting Evidence: Findings from Natural Experiments in Inflation Targeting
by Michael Parkin - 232 Tapping the Land: Tax Increment Financing of Infrastructure
by Adam Found - 231 At the Global Crossroads: Canada’s Trade Priorities for 2016
by Daniel Schwanen - 230 Learning from Mistakes: Improving Governance in the Ontario Electricity Sector
by George Vegh - 229 The National Energy Board's Limits in Assessing Upstream Greenhouse Gas Emissions
by Grant Bishop & Ben Dachis - 228 Job One is Jobs: Job One is Jobs: Workers Need Better Policy Support and Stronger Skills
by Alex Laurin - 227 Job One is Jobs: Workers Need Better Policy Support and Stronger Skills
by Craig Alexander - 226 Challenging Vested Interests: National Priorities for Healthcare in 2016
by Åke Blomqvist & Colin Busby - 225 Getting More Buildings for our Bucks: Canadian Infrastructure Policy in 2016
by Ben Dachis - 224 National Priorities 2016: The Future of Canadian Energy Policy
by Ben Dachis
2015
- 223 A Crisis of Capital: Canadian Workers Need More Tools, Buildings and Equipment
by Ben Dachis & William B.P. Robson & Aaron Jacobs - 222 Shifting the Federal Tax Burden on the One-Percenters: A Losing Proposition
by Alexandre Laurin - 221 Feasible Business Tax Burdens in Canada’s Major Cities: The 2015 Report Card
by Ben Dachis & Adam Found & Peter Tomlinson - 220 Feasible Tax Reform Priorities for Canada: Creating More Wealth to Go Around
by Craig Alexander & Alex Laurin - 219 Feasible The Future of Poison Pills in Canada: Are Takeover Bid Reforms Needed?
by Anita Anand - 218 Feasible The Effect of First Nations Modern Treaties on Local Income
by Fernando Aragon - 217 Feasible Pharmacare in the Federation: A Proposal to Break the Gridlock
by Ake Blomqvist & Colin Busby - 216 One Percent? For Real? Insights from Modern Growth Theory about Future Investment Returns
by Steve Ambler & Craig Alexander - 215 Underperforming Adults? The Paradox of Skills Development in Canada
by Andrew Parkin - 214 How to Make the World Safe for (and from) Covered Bonds
by Finn Poschmann - 213 Improving on the CPI: A Proposal for a Better Inflation Indicator
by Aaron Jacobs & Finn Poschmann - 212 Making Free Trade Deals Work for Small Business: A Proposal for Reform of Rules of Origin
by Dan Ciuriak - 211 An Opportunity not to be Wasted: Reforming Ontario’s Recycling Program
by Aaron Jacobs - 210 Drawing Down Our Savings: The Prospects for RRIF Holders Following the 2015 Federal Budget
by William B.P. Robson & Alexandre Laurin - 209 Peak Power Problems: How Ontario’s Industrial Electricity Pricing System Impacts Consumers
by Anindya Sen - 208 Ottawa's Secret Debt: The Burden and Risks of Federal Employee Pensions
by William B.P. Robson & Alexandre Laurin - 207 Railroad Blues: How to Get Canada's Rail Policy Back on Track
by Benjamin Dachis - 206 Tackling Traffic: The Economic Cost of Congestion in Metro Vancouver
by Benjamin Dachis - 205 The Taxation of Single-Employer Target Benefit Plans – Where We Are and Where We Ought To Be
by Jana R. Steele & Barry Gros & Karen J. Hall & Ian McSweeney - 204 Doctors without Hospitals: What to do about Specialists Who Can’t Find Work
by Ake Blomqvist & Colin Busby & Will Falk & Aaron Jacobs - 203 Evaluating Student Performance in Pathways to Education
by Robert Brown & Adam Lavecchi & Philip Oreopoulos - 202 The Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement: What it Means for Canada
by Dan Ciuriak - 201 Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Prince Edward Island’s $13 Billion Healthcare Squeeze
by William Robson & Colin Busby & Aaron Jacobs - 200 Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Are Demographics a Fiscal Iceberg for Newfoundland and Labrador?
by William Robson & Colin Busby & Aaron Jacobs - 199 Delivering Healthcare to an Aging Population: Nova Scotia’s Fiscal Glacier
by William Robson & Colin Busby & Aaron Jacobs - 198 Managing the Costs of Healthcare for an Aging Population: The Fiscal Impact of New Brunswick’s Demographic Glacier
by William Robson & Colin Busby & Aaron Jacobs
2014
- 197 Managing the Costs of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Good—and Bad—News About Saskatchewan’s Fiscal Glacier
by William Robson & Colin Busby & Aaron Jacobs - 196 Managing the Costs of Healthcare for an Aging Population: How Alberta Can Confront its Fiscal Glacier
by William Robson & Colin Busby & Aaron Jacobs - 195 Healthcare and an Aging Population: Managing Slow-Growing Revenues and Rising Health Spending in British Columbia
by William Robson & Colin Busby & Aaron Jacobs - 194 An Aging Population Fiscal Challenge: Planning for Healthcare Costs in Quebec
by William Robson & Colin Busby & Aaron Jacobs - 193 Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: How Manitoba Can Confront Its Healthcare Glacier
by William Robson & Colin Busby & Aaron Jacobs - 192 Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Ontario’s Troubling Collision Course
by William Robson & Colin Busby & Aaron Jacobs - 191 Measuring Innovation in Canada: The Tale Told by Patent Applications
by Ben Dachis & Robbie Brydon & Nicholas Chesterley - 190 A Speedier and More Efficient Payments System for Canada
by Mati Dubrovinsky - 189 Who Loses Most? The Impact of Taxes and Transfers on Retirement Incomes
by Finn Poschmann & Alexandre Laurin - 188 Good Governance of Monetary Policy in Canada: Lessons from the C.D. Howe Institute’s Shadow Council
by Pierre Siklos & Matthias Neuenkirch - 187 The 2014 C.D. Howe Institute Business Tax Burden Ranking
by Benjamin Dachis & Adam Found & Peter Tomlinson - 186 Target Benefit Plans: Improving Access for Federally Regulated Employees
by Randy Bauslaugh - 185 Bending Canada's Healthcare Cost Curve: Watch Not What Governments Say, But What They Do
by William B.P. Robson - 184 Let the Market Decide: The Case Against Mandatory Pick-and-Pay
by Lawson Hunter & Edward Iacobucci & Michael Trebilcock - 183 The Overlooked Option for Boosting Retirement Savings: Higher Limits for RRSPs
by Alexandre Laurin - 182 Rethinking Ontario’s Electricity System with Consumers in Mind
by Michael Wyman - 181 It's Alive! Corporate Cash and Business Investment
by Finn Poschmann - 180 Money Still Matters: How the Bank of Canada Might Better Monitor Inflation
by Mati Dubrovinsky - 179 Capital Needed: Canada Needs More Robust Business Investment
by Benjamin Dachis & William B.P. Robson & Nicholas Chesterley - 178 The Public Purse versus Private Wallets: Comparing Provincial Approaches to Investing in Economic Growth
by Philip Cross - 177 What Policies Work? Addressing the Concerns Raised by Canada’s PISA Results
by John Richards - 176 Warning Signs for Canadian Educators: The Bad News in Canada’s PISA Results
by John Richards - 175 Outliving Our Savings: Registered Retirement Income Funds Rules Need a Big Update
by William Robson & Alex Laurin - 174 Don’t Forget the Kids: How Immigrant Policy Can Help Immigrants’ Children
by Colin Busby & Miles Corak - 173 The Impact of Diplomatic Representation Abroad on Canada’s Exports
by Dan Ciuriak - 172 Helping Ontarians Save for Retirement: How the Province Could Adapt the Canada Supplementary Pension Plan
by Keith Ambachtsheer - 171 Registering in Harmony: The Case for Pan-Canadian Corporate Registration
by Daniel Schwanen - 170 Tradable Services: Canada’s Overlooked Success Story
by Daniel Schwanen
2013
- 169 Who Else Benefits from CETA? Some Implications of Most-Favoured Nation Treatment
by Lawrence Herman - 168 Accountability and Access to Medical Care: Lessons from the Use of Capitation Payments in Ontario
by Ake Blomqvist & Boris Kralj & Jasmin Kantarevic - 167 Equipping Canadian Workers: Business Investment Loses a Step against Competitors Abroad
by Benjaming Dachis & William B.P. Robson - 166 What Gets Measured Gets Managed: The Economic Burden of Business Property Taxes
by Benjaming Dachis & Adam Found & Peter Tomlinson - 165 Absent With Leave: The Implications of Demographic Change for Worker Absenteeism
by Finn Poschmann & Omar Chatur - 164 Identifying Alberta's Best Schools
by David R. Johnson - 163 Uneasy Birth: What Canadians Should Expect from a Canada-EU Trade Deal
by Daniel Schwanen - 162 How Ottawa Can Deliver a Reformed Canada Post
by Benjamin Dachis - 161 The Main Challenge of Our Times: A Population Growing Younger
by Marcel Boyer & Sebastien Boyer - 160 Treading Water: The Impact of High METRs on Working Families in Canada
by Alex Laurin & Finn Poschmann - 159 The 8 Percent Solution: A Sensible Tax Compromise for Albertans
by Colin Busby & Alex Laurin - 158 The Seductive Myth of Canada’s “Overvalued” Dollar
by Christopher Ragan - 157 Improving Immigrant Selection: Further Changes Are Required Before Increasing Inflows
by Christopher Worswick - 156 The New "Normal" for Interest Rates in Canada: The Implications of Long-Term Shifts in Global Saving and Investment
by Paul Beaudry & Philippe Bergevin - 155 A Reality Check for BC: The Impact of Behavioural Responses on the 2013 Budget's Proposed Income Tax Increases
by Alex Laurin - 154 Who is still Standing in Line? Addressing a Mismatch of Skills and Jobs in the Canadian Labour Market
by Philippe Bergevin - 153 Managing healthcare for an aging population: will demographics push Newfoundland and Labrador into a fiscal deep freeze?
by Colin Busby & William Robson - 152 Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Prince Edward Island’s $14 Billion Healthcare Glacier
by Colin Busby & William Robson - 151 Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Nova Scotia’s Healthcare Glacier
by Colin Busby & William Robson - 150 Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: New Brunswick’s $78 Billion Question
by Colin Busby & William Robson - 149 Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: The Fiscal Challenge Quebec Has Yet to Face
by Colin Busby & William Robson - 148 Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Does the Demographic Glacier Portend a Fiscal Ice-Age in Ontario?
by Colin Busby & William Robson - 147 Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Manitoba’s Looming Funding Gap
by Colin Busby & William Robson - 146 Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Some Good News and Some Bad News for Saskatchewan
by Colin Busby & William Robson - 145 Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: How Alberta Can Confront its Coming Fiscal Challenge
by Colin Busby & William Robson - 144 Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: British Columbia Confronts its Glacier
by Colin Busby & William Robson - 143 Not Dead Yet: The Changing Role of Cash on Corporate Balance Sheets
by Finn Poschmann
2012
- 142 Speed Dating or Serious Courtship? Canada and Foreign State-Owned Enterprises
by Daniel Schwanen - 141 Are Middle Schools Good for Student Academic Achievement? Evidence from Ontario
by David R. Johnson - 140 Federal Employee Pension Reforms: First Steps - on a Much Longer Journey
by William B.P. Robson & Alexandre Laurin - 139 Tuer la poule aux œufs d'or : Les impacts des hausses d'impôt proposées au Québec/Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs: Impact of proposed tax increases in Quebec
by Alexandre Laurin - 138 Can Venture Capital Foster Innovation in Canada? Yes, but Certain Types of Venture Capital Are Better Than Others
by Tariq Fancy - 137 From Living Well to Working Well: Raising Canada's Performance in Non-residential Investment
by Benjamin Dachis & William B.P. Robson - 136 Finding Common Cause: The Renewed Quest for a National Securities Regulator
by Jeremy Fraiberg - 135 Ontario's Tax on the Rich: Grasping at Straw Men
by Alexandre Laurin - 134 Ontario's Best Public Schools: 2009-2011
by David Johnson & Robbie Brydon - 133 Money Still Talks - Is Anyone Listening?
by David Laidler - 132 The Hole in Ontario's Budget: WSIB's Unfunded Liability
by Colin Busby & Finn Poschmann - 131 What to do About Seniors' Benefits in Canada: the Case for letting Recipients Take Richer Payments Later
by William B.P. Robson - 129 Newfoundland's Electricity Options: Making the Right Choice Requires and Efficient Pricing Regime
by James P. Feehan
2011
- 128 Saving Pooled Registered Pension Plans: It's Up To the Provinces
by Keith Ambachtsheer & Keith Waitzer - 127 Ottawa's Pension Gap: The Growing and Under-reported Cost of Federal Employee Pensions
by Alexandre Laurin & William B.P. Robson - 126 The Retooling Challenge: Canada's Struggle to Close the Capital Investment Gap
by Colin Busby & William B.P. Robson - 125 The Roads Not Taken: Why the Bank of Canada Stayed With Inflation Targeting
by Christopher Ragan - 124 Core, What is it Good For? Why the Bank of Canada Should Focus on Headline Inflation
by Philippe Bergevin & Colin Busby - 123 Better Braking for ABS: Reform Proposals for the Asset-Backed Securities Market
by David C. Allan & Philippe Bergevin - 122 Congestive Traffic Failure: The Case for High-Occupancy and Express Toll Lanes in Canadian Cities
by Benjamin Dachis - 121 Western METRics: Marginal Effective Tax Rates in the Western Provinces
by Alexandre Laurin & Finn Poschmann - 120 Plugging into Savings: A New Incentive-Based Market Can Address Ontario’s Power-Surplus Problem
by Bejamin Dachis & Donald N. Dewees - 119 The Time is Still Right for BC’s HST
by Finn Poschmann & Alexandre Laurin - 118 Pulling the Plug on Monopoly Power: Reform for the Canadian Wheat Board
by Richard Pedde & Al Loyns - 117 Zapped: The High Cost of Ontario's Renewable Electricity Subsidies
by Benjamin Dachis & Jan Carr - 116 Strengthening Bank Regulation: OSFI's Contingent Capital Plan
by John F. Chant - 115 What Has Happened to Quebecers’ Marginal Effective Tax Rates?
by Alexandre Laurin & Finn Poschmann - 114 What's My METR? Marginal Effective Tax Rates Are Down - But Not for Everyone: The Ontario Case
by Alexandre Laurin & Finn Poschmann - 113 The Fragile Fiscal Pulse of Canada's Industrial Heartland: Ontario 2011 Budget
by Colin Busby - 112 When Striking an Awkward Balance Means Striking Out: Budget 2011
by Alexandre Laurin & Finn Poschmann & William B.P. Robson - 111 Fixing Canada’s CPI: A Simple and Sensible Policy Change for Minister Flaherty
by Christopher Ragan - 110 Lifting the Veil: Regulation and Shadow Banking
by Christian Calmes & Raymond Theoret - 109 School Dropouts: Who Are They and What Can Be Done?
by John Richards
2010
- 108 The Public-Sector Pension Bubble: Time to Confront the Unmeasured Cost of Ottawa's Pensions
by Alexandre Laurin & William Robson - 107 Disarmed and Disadvantaged: Canada’s Workers Need More Physical Capital to Confront the Productivity Challenge
by Colin Busby & William B.P. Robson - 106 The Glacier Grinds Closer: How Demographics Will Change Canada’s Fiscal Landscape
by William B.P. Robson - 105 Not Here? Housing Market Policy and the Risk of a Housing Bust
by Jim MacGee - 104 The Payoff: Returns to University, College and Trades Education in Canada, 1980 to 2005
by Daniel Boothby & Torben Drewes - 103 Unbalanced Books: How to Improve Toronto’s Fiscal Accountability
by Colin Busby & Benjamin Dachis & William B.P. Robson - 102 Greater Transparency Needed
by Angelo Melino & Michael Parkin - 101 The Loonie’s Flirtation with Parity: Prospects and Policy Implications
by Philippe Bergevin & Colin Busby - 100 British Columbia’s Best Schools: Where Teachers Make the Difference
by David Johnson