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2015, issue 442

Opening up New Trade Routes for Financial Services: Canada’s Priorities

Daniel Schwanen, Dan Ciuriak and Jeremy Kronick

2015, issue 441

Mortgaged to the Hilt: Risks From The Distribution of Household Mortgage Debt

Craig Alexander and Paul Jacobson

2015, issue 440

Social Partnership’: Promoting Shared Interests for Resource and Infrastructure Development

Geoffrey Hale and Yale Belanger

2015, issue 439

Building Better Budgets: Canada’s Cities Should Clean Up their Financial Reporting

Ben Dachis and William Robson

2015, issue 438

Measuring Outcomes in the Canadian Health Sector: Driving Better Value from Healthcare

Jeremy Veillard, Omid Fekri, Irfan Dhalla and Niek Klazinga

2015, issue 437

First Nations Own-Source Revenue: How Is the Money Spent?

John Richards

2015, issue 436

The Benefits of Hindsight: Lessons from the QPP for Other Pension Plans

Luc Godbout, Yves Trudel and Suzie St-Cerny

2015, issue 435

Drilling Down on Royalties: How Canadian Provinces Can Improve Non-Renewable Resource Taxes

Ben Dachis and Robin Boadway

2015, issue 434

Value for Money? Teacher Compensation and Student Outcomes in Canada's Six Largest Provinces

David Johnson

2015, issue 433

Mushrooms and Yeast: The Implications of Technological Progress for Canada's Economic Growth

Peter Howitt

2015, issue 432

Money in Motion: Modernizing Canada’s Payment System

John Chant

2015, issue 431

Adaptability, Accountability and Sustainability: Intergovernmental Fiscal Arrangements in Canada

William Robson and Alex Laurin

2015, issue 430

Mortgage Insurance as a Macroprudential Tool: Dealing with the Risk of a Housing Market Crash in Canada

Thorsten Koeppl and James (Jim) MacGee

2015, issue 429

Securing Monetary and Financial Stability: Why Canada Needs a Macroprudential Policy Framework

Paul Jenkins and David Longworth

2015, issue 428

Do Canadians Save Too Little?

Malcolm Hamilton

2015, issue 427

What to Do About Canada's Declining Math Scores?

Anna Stokke

2015, issue 426

Small Business Preferences as a Barrier to Growth: Not so Tall After All

Benjamin Dachis and John Lester

2015, issue 425

Simplifying the Rule Book: a Proposal to Reform and Clarify Canada’s Policy on Inward Foreign Direct Investment

Ed Safarian

2015, issue 424

By the Numbers: The Fiscal Accountability of Canada's Senior Governments, 2015

William Robson and Colin Busby

2015, issue 423

Challenges, Growth and Opportunity: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2015

William Robson and Alexandre Laurin

2015, issue 422

Missed Connections: The Adoption of Information Technology in Canadian Healthcare

Denis Protti

2015, issue 421

A Shot in the Arm: How to Improve Vaccination Policy in Canada

Colin Busby and Nicholas Chesterley

2015, issue 420

Rethinking Canada’s Unbalanced Mix of Public and Private Healthcare: Insights from Abroad

Ake Blomqvist and Colin Busby

2015, issue 419

The Value of Copyrights in Recorded Music: Terrestrial Radio and Beyond

Marcel Boyer

2015, issue 418

Expanding School Choice through Open Enrolment: Lessons from British Columbia

Jane Friesen, Benjamin Cerf and Simon Woodcock

2014, issue 417

Should Public Drug Plans be Based on Age or Income?

Colin Busby and Jonathan Pedde

2014, issue 416

Who Watches the Watchmen? The Role of the Self-Regulator

Robert Mysicka

2014, issue 415

Paying for the Boomers: Long-Term Care and Intergenerational Equity

Ake Blomqvist and Colin Busby

2014, issue 414

Uncorking a Strange Brew: The Need for More Competition in Ontario’s Alcoholic Beverage Retailing System

Paul Masson and Anindya Sen

2014, issue 413

What Now? Addressing the Burden of Canada's Slow-Growth Recovery

Christopher Ragan Author- Workplace-Name: McGill University

2014, issue 412

User Discretion Advised: Fiscal Consolidation and the Recovery

William Scarth Author- Workplace-Name: McMaster University

2014, issue 411

Target- Benefit Plans in Canada – An Innovation Worth Expanding

Jana Steele Author- Workplace-Name: Goodmans LLP, Mel Bartlett Author- Workplace-Name: Morneau Shepell and Angela Maserolle Author- Workplace-Name: Government of New Brunswick

2014, issue 410

The Case of the Vanishing Quebec Physicians: How to Improve Access to Care

Claude Forget

2014, issue 409

Sticker Shock: The Causes of the Canada-US Price Differential

Nicholas Li

2014, issue 408

Are We Making Progress? New Evidence on Aboriginal Education Outcomes in Provincial and Reserve Schools

John Richards

2014, issue 407

Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada: Are They Really Filling Labour Shortages?

Dominique Gross

2014, issue 406

Ottawa’s Hidden Deficit: The Widening Gap between Federal Government Pension Liabilities and Assets

William Robson and Alex Laurin

2014, issue 405

Evaluating Public-Sector Pensions: Are Federal Public Servants Overpaid?

Malcolm Hamilton

2014, issue 404

Credibility on the (Bottom) Line: The Fiscal Accountability of Canada's Senior Governments, 2013

William Robson and Colin Busby

2014, issue 403

Evaluating Public-Sector Pensions: How Much Do They Really Cost?

Malcolm Hamilton

2014, issue 402

The Ill Wind that Blows from Europe: Implications for Canada's Economy

Pierre Siklos

2014, issue 401

Shareholder Liability: A New (Old) Way of Thinking about Financial Regulation

Finn Poschmann

2014, issue 400

Price-Level Targeting: A Post-Mortem?

Steven Ambler

2014, issue 399

Equipping Canadians for Success: A Shadow Budget for 2014

Alex Laurin and William Robson

2014, issue 398

Full Throttle: Reforming Canada's Aviation Policy

Benjamin Dachis

2014, issue 397

Baffling Budgets: The Sorry State of Municipal Fiscal Accountability in Canada

Benjamin Dachis and William Robson

2013, issue 396

Capturing Value from Health Technologies in Lean Times

Ake Blomqvist, Colin Busby and Don Husereau

2013, issue 395

Long-Term Returns: a Reality Check for Pension Funds and Retirement Savers

Richard Guay and Laurence Allaire

2013, issue 394

Diplomacy, Trade and Aid: Searching for "Synergies"

John Richards

2013, issue 393

What You Don't Know Can't Help You: Lessons of Behavioural Economics for Tax-Based Student Aid

Christine Neill

2013, issue 392

Paying Hospital-Based Doctors: Fee for Whose Service?

Ake Blomqvist

2013, issue 391

High Frequency Traders: Angels or Devils?

Jeffrey MacIntosh

2013, issue 390

Why is BC Best? The Role of Provincial and Reserve School Systems in Explaining Aboriginal Student Performance

John Richards

2013, issue 389

A New Blueprint for Ontario's Electricity Market

Goulding Aj

2013, issue 388

The Valuation of Public Projects: Risks, Cost of Financing and Cost of Capital Current

Marcel Boyer, Éric Gravel and Sandy Mokbel

2013, issue 387

Predicting Recessions in Real-Time: Mining Google Trends and Electronic Payments Data for Clues

Greg Tkacz

2013, issue 386

Ontario Pension Policy 2013: Key Challenges Ahead

Barry Gros

2013, issue 385

Cars, Congestion and Costs: A New Approach to Evaluating Government Infrastructure Investment

Benjamin Dachis

2013, issue 384

Rethinking Pharmacare in Canada

Steve Morgan, Jamie R. Daw and Michael R. Law

2013, issue 383

From Curiosity to Wealth Creation: How University Research can Boost Economic Growth

Peter Howitt

2013, issue 382

Beer, Butter, and Barristers: How Canadian Governments Put Cartels before Consumers

Robert Mysicka and Marty McKendry

2013, issue 381

The Dangers of an Extended Period of Low Interest Rates: Why the Bank of Canada Should Start Raising Them Now

Paul Masson

2013, issue 380

Access Denied: The Effect of Apprenticeship Restrictions in Skilled Trades

Robbie Brydon and Ben Dachis

2013, issue 379

Improving the Tax Treatment of Intellectual Property Income in Canada

Nick Pantaleo, Finn Poschmann and Scott Wilkie

2013, issue 378

Paying for Hospital Services: A Hard Look at the Options

Jason Sutherland, R. T. Crump, Nadya Repin and Erik Hellsten

2013, issue 377

Strength in Numbers? The Weak Effect of Manufacturing Clusters on Canadian Productivity

Kristian Behrens

2013, issue 376

Mergers by Choice, Not Edict: Reforming Ontario's Electricity Distribution Policy

Stephen Fyfe, Mark Garner and George Vegh

2013, issue 375

Prudence and Opportunity: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2013

Alex Laurin and William Robson

2013, issue 374

Putting the Market Back in Dairy Marketing

Colin Busby and Daniel Schwanen

2013, issue 373

Canada's 2012 Fiscal Accountability Rankings

Colin Busby and William Robson

2013, issue 372

Reining in the Risks: Rethinking the Role of Crown Financial Corporations in Canada

Finn Poschmann and Philippe Bergevin

2013, issue 371

A Canada-CARICOM "Trade-not-Aid" Strategy: Important and Achievable

Phil Rourke