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2011, issue 337

Reforming the Investment Canada Act: Walk More Softly, Carry a Bigger Stick

Philippe Bergevin and Daniel Schwanen

2011, issue 336

Legal for Life: Why Canadians Need a Lifetime Retirement Saving Limit

James Pierlot and Faisal Siddiqi

2011, issue 335

Income Splitting for Two-Parent Families: Who Gains, Who Doesn't, and at What Cost?

Alexandre Laurin and Jonathan Rhys Kesselman

2011, issue 334

Rewarding Innovation: Improving Federal Tax Support for Business R&D in Canada

Mark Parsons

2011, issue 333

Rethinking royalty Rates: Why There Is a Better Way to Tax Oil and Gas Development

Colin Busby, Benjamin Dachis and Bev Dahlby

2011, issue 332

When Nightmares Become Real: Modelling Linkages between the Financial Sector and the Real Economy in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis

Philippe Bergevin, Pierre Duguay and Paul Jenkins

2011, issue 331

Lagging Behind: Productivity and the Good Fortune of Canadian Provinces

Serge Coulombe

2011, issue 330

A Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Alternative Financing and Delivery of Water and Wastewater Services

Elizabeth Brubaker

2011, issue 329

Time for Stability in Derivatives Markets – a New Look at Central Counterparty Clearing for Securities Markets

Thorsten Koeppl

2011, issue 328

Aboriginal Education in Quebec: A Benchmarking Exercise

John Richards

2011, issue 327

Chronic Healthcare Spending Disease: A Macro Diagnosis and Prognosis

David A. Dodge and Richard Dion

2011, issue 326

A Social Insurance Model for Pharmacare: Ontario's Options for a More Sustainable, Cost-Effective Drug Program

Colin Busby and William Robson

2011, issue 325

Staying the Course: Quebec's Fiscal Balance Challenge

Pierre Fortin

2011, issue 324

What Does it Cost Society to Raise a Dollar of Tax Revenue? The Marginal Cost of Public Funds

Bev Dahlby and Ergete Ferede

2011, issue 323

Safe Drinking Water Policy for Canada - Turning Hindsight into Foresight

Steve E. Hrudey

2011, issue 322

The Costs of Inflexible Indexing: Avoiding the Adverse Fiscal Impacts of Lower Inflation

Philippe Bergevin and William Robson

2011, issue 321

Precision Targeting: The Economics – and Politics – of Improving Canada’s Inflation-Targeting Framework

Christopher Ragan

2011, issue 320

A Faster Track to Fiscal Balance: The 2011 Shadow Budget

Alexandre Laurin and William Robson

2011, issue 319

Moving Monetary Policy Forward: Why Small Steps - and a Lower Inflation Target - Make Sense for the Bank of Canada

Angelo Melino

2011, issue 318

What Governments Should Do in Mortgage Markets

Finn Poschmann

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 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