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2016, issue 462

Precarious Positions: Policy Options to Mitigate Risks in Non-standard Employment

Colin Busby and Ramya Muthukumaran

2016, issue 461

Playing from Strength: Canada’s Trade Deal Priorities for Financial Services

Daniel Schwanen, Jeremy Kronick and Ramya Muthukumaran

2016, issue 460

Two Sets of Books at City Hall? Grading the Financial Reports of Canada’s Cities

Benjamin Dachis, William Robson and Jennifer Tsao

2016, issue 459

Investor-State Dispute Settlement in Ceta: Is it the Gold Standard?

Tony VanDuzer

2016, issue 458

Thinking Regionally: How to Improve Service Delivery in Canada’s Cities

Zachary Spicer and Adam Found

2016, issue 457

The Bigger Picture: How the Fourth Pillar Impacts Retirement Preparedness

Jeremy Kronick and Alexandre Laurin

2016, issue 454

Fault Lines: Earthquakes, Insurance, and Systemic Financial Risk

Nicholas Le Pan

2016, issue 453

Toward the Next Renewal of the Inflation-Control Agreement: Questions Facing the Bank of Canada

Steven Ambler

2016, issue 452

Modernizing Business Taxation

Robin Boadway and Jean-François Tremblay

2016, issue 451

Changing the Channel on Canadian Communications Regulation

Benjamin Dachis and Daniel Schwanen

2016, issue 450

Unequal Access: Making Sense of EI Eligibility Rules and How to Improve Them

Colin Busby and David Gray

2016, issue 449

Worse Than It Looks: The True Burden and Risks of Federal Employee Pension Plans

William Robson and Alex Laurin

2016, issue 448

Controlling the Public Purse: The Fiscal Accountability of Canada’s Senior Governments

William Robson and Colin Busy

2016, issue 447

Where the Bucks Stop: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2016

William Robson and Alex Laurin

2016, issue 446

Moving Parts: Immigration Policy, Internal Migration and Natural Resource Shocks

Serge Coulombe, Robin Boadway and Michel Beine

2016, issue 445

Looking for Liquidity -- Banking and Emergency Liquidity Facilities

Jeremy Kronick

2016, issue 444

Students in Jeopardy: An Agenda for Improving Results in Band-Operated Schools

John Richards and Barry Anderson

2016, issue 443

Shifting Towards Autonomy: A Continuing Care Model for Canada

Ake Blomqvist and Colin Busby

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