C.D. Howe Institute Commentary

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2010, issue 317

Canada’s Looming Retirement Challenge: Will Future Retirees Be Able to Maintain Their Living Standards upon Retirement?

Kevin D. Moore, William Robson and Alexandre Laurin

2010, issue 316

The Eco-Fee Imbroglio: Lessons from Ontario’s Troubled Experiment in Charging for Waste Management

Andrew Green and Michael Trebilcock

2010, issue 315

The Canadian ABS Market: Where Do We Go From Here?

David C. Allan and Philippe Bergevin

2010, issue 314

Taxing Emissions, Not Income: How to Moderate the Regional Impact of Federal Environment Policy

Jotham Peters, Chris Bataille, Nicholas Rivers and Mark Jaccard

2010, issue 313

Energy Prices and Alberta Government Revenue Volatility

Stuart Landon and Constance Smith

2010, issue 312

Putting Money Back into Monetary Policy: A Monetary Anchor for Price and Financial Stability

Philippe Bergevin and David Laidler

2010, issue 311

Too Big to Fail: A Misguided Policy in Times of Financial Turmoil

Clyde Goodlet

2010, issue 310

Seeking Certainty in Uncertain Times: A Review of Recent Government-Sponsored Studies on the Regulation of Canadian Pension Plans

Bob Baldwin and Brian FitzGerald

2010, issue 309

A Matter of Trust: Expanding the Preclearance of Commerce between Canada and the United States

Michael Hart

2010, issue 308

Picking up Savings: The Benefits of Competition in Municipal Waste Services

Benjamin Dachis

2010, issue 307

Better Together? The Implications of Linking Canada-US Greenhouse Gas Policies

Dave Sawyer and Carolyn Fischer

2010, issue 306

Power Sharing: Developing Inter-Provincial Electricity Trade

Jan Carr

2010, issue 305

Reducing Lone-Parent Poverty: A Canadian Success Story

John Richards

2010, issue 304

The Laws of Unintended Consequence: The Effect of Labour Legislation on Wages and Strikes

Benjamin Dachis and Robert Hebdon

2010, issue 303

Solving Spectrum Gridlock: Reforms to Liberalize Radio Spectrum Management in Canada in the Face of Growing Scarcity

Martin Cave and Adrian Foster

2010, issue 302

The Competition for Water: Striking a Balance among Social, Environmental, and Economic Needs

Henning Bjornlund

2010, issue 301

Scrambled Signals: Canadian Content Policies in a World of Technological Abundance

Q.C. Lawson A.W. Hunter, Edward Iacobucci and Michael J. Trebilcock

2009, issue 300

Bringing the Provinces Back In: Creating a Federated Canadian Charities Council

Adam Aptowitzer

2009, issue 299

Canada's Difficult Experience in Reducing Inflation: Cautionary Lessons

John Crow

2009, issue 298

Dropouts: The Achilles' Heel of Canada's High-School System

John Richards

2009, issue 297

Getting it Right When You Might Be Wrong: The Choice Between Price-Level and Inflation Targeting

Jean Boivin

2009, issue 296

Look Before You Leap: A Skeptical View of Proposals to Meld Macro- and Microprudential Regulation

Nick Le Pan

2009, issue 295

The Path to Prosperity: Internationally Competitive Rates and a Level Playing Field

Duanjie Chen and Jack Mintz

2009, issue 294

The Pension Tangle: Achieving Greater Uniformity of Pension Legislation and Regulation in Canada

Gretchen Van Riesen

2009, issue 293

How Flexible Can Inflation Targeting Be? Suggestions for the Future of Canada's Targeting Regime

Thorsten Koeppl

2009, issue 292

As Good As It Gets? The International Dimension to Canada's Monetary Policy Strategy Choices

Pierre Siklos

2009, issue 291

Faster, Younger, Richer? The Fond Hope and Sobering Reality of Immigration's Impact on Canada's Demographic and Economic Future

Robin Banerjee and William Robson

2009, issue 290

Canada's Nuclear Crossroads: Steps to a Viable Nuclear Energy Industry

Bruce Doern and Robert Morrison

2009, issue 289

Building Affordable Rental Housing in Unaffordable Cities: A Canadian Low-Income Housing Tax Credit

Marion Steele and Francois Des Rosiers

2009, issue 288

Good Health to All: Reducing Health Inequalities among Children in High- and Low-Income Canadian Families

Claire de Oliveira

2009, issue 287

The Missing Links: Better Measures of Inflation and Inflation Expectations in Canada

Gregor Smith

2009, issue 286

Potholes and Paperwork: Improving Cross-Border Integration and Regulation of the Automotive Industry

Michael Hart

2009, issue 285

To the Next Level: From Gold Standard to Inflation Targets - to Price Stability?

William Robson

2009, issue 284

Cleaning Up the Books: A Proposal for Revamping Corporate Group Taxation in Canada

Alexandre Laurin

2009, issue 283

A Matter of Voice: The Case for Abolishing the 30 percent Rule for Pension Fund Investments

Poonam Puri

2009, issue 282

Going Green for Less: Cost-Effective Alternative Energy Sources

Roger A. Samson and Stephanie Bailey Stamler

2009, issue 281

Wave of the Future: The Case for Smarter Water

Steven Renzetti

2009, issue 280

Pricing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Impact on Canada's Competitiveness

Chris Bataille, Benjamin Dachis and Nicholas Rivers

2009, issue 279

What is the Ideal Monetary Policy Regime? Improving the Bank of Canada's Inflation-targeting Program

Michael Parkin

2008, issue 278

Unstable Foundations: Assets Markets, Inflation Targets, and Canada's 2011 Policy Choices

David Laidler and Robin Banerjee

2008, issue 277

Sand in the Gears: Evaluating the Effects of Toronto's Land Transfer Tax

Benjamin Dachis, Gilles Duranton and Matthew Turner

2008, issue 276

Understanding the Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Gap in Student Performance: Lessons From British Columbia

John Richards, Jennifer Hove and Kemi Afolabi

2008, issue 275

A Pension in Every Pot: Better Pensions for More Canadians

James Pierlot

2008, issue 274

Still Amigos: A Fresh Canada-US Approach to Reviving NAFTA

Alan S. Alexandroff, Gary Hufbauer and Krista Lucenti

2008, issue 273

Growth Oriented Sales Tax Reform for Ontario: Replacing the Retail Sales Tax with a 7.5 Percent Value-Added Tax

Peter Dungan, Jack Mintz, Finn Poschmann and Thomas Wilson

2008, issue 272

Finding Silver Linings in the Storm: An Evaluation of Recent Canada-US Crossborder Developments

Arthur J. Cockfield

2008, issue 271

The Case for Trills: Giving Canadians and their Pension Funds a Stake in the Wealth of the Nation

Mark Kamstra and Robert Shiller

2008, issue 270

Limited Horizons: The 2008 Report on Federal and Provincial Budgetary Tax Policies

Duanjie Chen and Jack Mintz

2008, issue 269

Anatomy of the Credit Crisis: The role of Faulty Risk Management Systems

Frank Milne

2008, issue 268

The Ethanol Trap: Why Policies to Promote Ethanol as Fuel Need Rethinking

Douglas Auld

2008, issue 267

The Welfare Enigma: Explaining the Dramatic Decline in Canadians' Use of Social Assistance, 1993-2005

Ross Finnie and Ian Irvine

2008, issue 266

Risky Assumptions: A closer Look at the Bearing of Investment Risk in Defined-Benefit Pension Plans

James Pesando

2008, issue 265

The Canada Supplementary Pension Plan (CSPP): Towards an Adequate, Affordable Pension for All Canadians (also available in French)

Keith Ambachtsheer

2008, issue 264

Clearing Hurdles: Key Reforms to Make Small Business More Successful

Ben Tomlin

2008, issue 263

Greater Saving Required: How Alberta Can Achieve Fiscal Sustainability from its Resource Revenues

Leslie Shiell and Colin Busby

2008, issue 262

Greener Pastures: Understanding the Impact of Retirement Incentives in Defined-benefit Pension Plans

Tammy Schirle

2008, issue 261

Power Failure: Addressing the Causes of Underinvestment, Inefficiency and Governance Problems in Ontario's Electricity Sector

Michael Wyman

2008, issue 260

Generating the Benefits of Competition: Challenges and Opportunities in Opening Electricity Markets

Timothy Brennan

2008, issue 259

Navigating New Trade Routes: The rise of Value chains, and the Challenges for Canadian Trade Policy

Bill Dymond and Michael Hart

2008, issue 258

School Grades: Identifying British Columbia's Best Schools

David Johnson