SPP Research Papers

2008 - 2024

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2018, month December, vol 11

The Economics of Telecommunications in Canada: A Backgrounder

Garret Fellows and Mukesh Khanal

2018, month November, vol 11

Alberta's Long-Term Fiscal Future

Trevor Tombe

2018, month October, vol 11

Assessing Policy Support for Emissions-Intensive and Trade-Exposed Industries

Sarah Dobson and Jennifer Winter

2018, month September, vol 11

Why Alberta Needs a Fiscal Constitution

Ted Morton

2018, month July, vol 11

The Potential for Canadian LNG Exports to Europe

Jennifer Winter, Sarah Dobson, Garret Fellows, Dexter Lam and Paul Craig

2018, month June, vol 11

Opening Canada’s North: A Study of Trade Costs in the Territories

Garret Fellows and Trevor Tombe

2018, month May, vol 11

North American Free Trade Under Attack: Newsprint is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Eugene Beaulieu

2018, month April, vol 11

An International Comparison of Tax Assistance for R&D: 2017 Update and Extension to Patent Boxes

John Lester and Jacek Warda

2018, month March, vol 11

NAFTA Renegotiations: An Opportunity for Canadian Dairy?

Eugene Beaulieu and V. Balaji Venkatachalam

2018, month February, vol 11

Falling Through the Cracks: How the Community-Based Approach Has Failed Calgary’s Chronically Homeless

Katrina Milaney, Nicole Williams and Daniel J. Dutton

2017 Tax Competitiveness Report: The Calm Before the Storm

Philip Bazel, Jack Mintz and Austin Thompson

Has the City-Rural Tax Base and Land-Use Balance Changed in Alberta? Explorations into the Distribution of Equalized Property Assessments Among Municipality Classes

Melville McMillan

2018, month January, vol 11

Canada and Associate Membership in the Pacific Alliance: An Important Part of a Global Trade Strategy

Hugh Stephens and Juan Navarro

Alberta’s Changing Industrial Structure: Implications for Output and Income Volatility

Bev Dahlby and Mukesh Khanal

Business Subsidies in Canada: Comprehensive Estimates for the Government of Canada and the Four Largest Provinces

John Lester

2017, month November, vol 10

Business Cases for Major Public Infrastructure Projects in Canada

Mario Iacobacci

Taxing Feedlots in Alberta: Lethbridge County's Tax on Confined Feeding Operations

Bev Dahlby, Melville McMillan and Mukesh Khanal

2017, month October, vol 10

Putting the Alberta Budget on a New Trajectory

Janice MacKinnon and Jack Mintz

2017, month September, vol 10

Big and Little Feet: A Comparison of Provincial Level Consumption- and Production-Based Emissions Footprints

Sarah Dobson and Garret Fellows

2016 Status Report on Major Equipment Procurement

David Perry

A 2017 Update of Taxation of Oil Investments in Canada and the United States: How U.S. Tax Reform Could Affect Competitiveness

Daria Crisan and Jack Mintz

Stay the Course or Seize an Opportunity? Options for Alberta’s Post-Secondary Institutions in a Period of Uncertainty About the Rebound of the Oil Economy

Ken Norrie and John Emery

2017, month August, vol 10

Enforcement Issues Associated with Prospectus Exemptions in Canada

Jeffrey G. MacIntosh

2017, month June, vol 10

The Ground Rules for Effective OBAs: Principles for Addressing Carbon-Pricing Competitiveness Concerns through the Use of Output-Based Allocations

Sarah Dobson, Garret Fellows, Trevor Tombe and Jennifer Winter

The Connection Between Professional Sporting Events, Holidays and Domestic Violence in Calgary, Alberta

Sophia Boutilier, Ali Jadidzadeh, Elena Esina, Lana Wells and Ronald Kneebone

2017, month May, vol 10

Policy Reflection: Letter of Credit Usage by Defined Benefit Pension Plans in Canada

Norma L. Nielson and Peggy L. Hedges

Policy Interventions Favouring Small Business: Rationales, Results and Recommendations

John Lester

Estimating Costs and Benefits Associated with Evidence-Based Violence Prevention: Four Case Studies Based on the Fourth R Program

Claire V. Crooks, Jennifer Zwicker, Lana Wells, Ray Hughes, Amanda Langlois and John Emery

2017, month April, vol 10

The Incidence of the Corporate Income Tax on Wages: Evidence from Canadian Provinces

Kenneth McKenzie and Ergete Ferede

Who Pays the Corporate Tax?: Insights from the Literature and Evidence for Canadian Provinces

Kenneth McKenzie and Ergete Ferede

2017, month March, vol 10

National Pharmacare in Canada: 2019 or Bust?

Owen Adams and Jordyn Smith

Policy Responsiveness and Political Accountability in City Politics

Anthony Sayers and Jack Lucas

2017, month January, vol 10

Discerning 'Functional and Absolute Zero': Defining and Measuring an End to Homelessness in Canada

Alina Turner, Tom Albanese and Kyle Pakeman

Public-Interest Benefit Evaluation of Partial-Upgrading Technology

Garret Fellows, Robert Mansell, Ronald Schlenker and Jennifer Winter

2016, month December, vol 9

Municipal Revenue Generation and Development in the Calgary and Edmonton Metropolitan Regions

Brian W. Conger, Bev Dahlby and Melville McMillan

The Corporate Income Tax in Canada: Does its Past Foretell its Future?

Richard Bird and Thomas A. Wilson

2016, month November, vol 9

2015 Tax-Competitveness Report: Canada is losing its Attractiveness

Philip Bazel and Jack Mintz

If it Matters, Measure it: Unpacking Diversification in Canada

Trevor Tombe and Robert Mansell

2016, month October, vol 9

Alberta's New Royalty Regime is a Step Towards Competitivness: A 2016 Update

Daria Crisan and Jack Mintz

A Rule of Reason fro Inward FDI: Integrating Canadian Foreign Investment Review and Competition Policy

Grant Bishop

Getting Financial Regulations Right: Avoiding Unintended Effects

Jacqueline Coolidge and Jack Mintz

Do Insiders Comply with Disclosure Rules? Evidence from Canada, 1996-2011

Lindsay Tedds

2016, month September, vol 9

What Statistics Canada Survey Data Sources are Available to Study Neurodevelopmental Conditions and Disabilities in Children and Youth?

Rubab G. Arim, Leanne C. Findlay and Dafna E. Kohen

A Practical Guide to the Economics of Carbon Pricing

Ross McKitrick

The Very Poor and the Affordability of Housing

Ronald Kneebone and Margarita Wilkins

The Challenge of Integrating Renewable Generation in the Alberta Electricity Market

Garret Fellows, Michal C. Moore and Blake Shaffer

2016, month August, vol 9

Challenges for Democracies in Responding to Terrorism: A View from Canada adn Israel

Jean-Sébastien Rioux and Maureen Shields

2016, month June, vol 9

Infrastructure, Attitude and Weather: Today's Threats to Supply Chain Security

Stephen Blank

The Disability Tax Credit: Why it Fails and How to Fix it

Wayne Simpson and Harvey Stevens

Tax-Assisted Approaches For Helping Canadians Meet Out-of-Pocket Health-Care Costs

John Emery

2016, month May, vol 9

Planning for Infrastructure to Realize Canada's Potential: The Corridor Concept

Andrei Sulzenko and Garret Fellows

Shrinking the Need for Homeless Shelter Spaces

Ronald Kneebone and Margarita Wilkins

Energy Projects, Social Licence, Public Acceptance and Regulatory Systems in Canada: A White Paper

John Colton, Kenneth Corscadden, Stewart Fast, Monica Gattinger, Joel Gehman, Martha Hall Findlay, Dylan Morgan, Judith Sayers, Jennifer Winter and Adonis Yatchew

The Opening of the Northern Sea Routes: The Implications for Global Shipping and for Canada's Relations with Asia

Hugh Stephens

2016, month April, vol 9

The Value Proposition of Prevention: The Impacts of Pure North's Energy Foundation's Preventive Care Program on Acute Care Utilization in Alberta

John Emery

A Major Setback for Retirement Savings: Changing how Financial Advisers are Compensated could Hurt Less-Than-Wealthy Investors Most

Pierre Lortie

2016, month March, vol 9

Is Social Licence a Licence to Stall?

Mark Lowey

A Fiscal Framework for Offshore Oil and Gas Activities in Romania

Daria Crisan

The Theory and Evidence Concerning Public-Private Partnerships in Canada and Elsewhere

Anthony Boardman, Matti Siemiatycki and Aidan Vining

The Costliest Tax of All: Raising Revenue Through Corporate Tax Hikes can be Counter-Productive for the Provinces

Ergete Ferede and Bev Dahlby

Into the Mire: A Closer Look at Fossil Fuel Subsides

Radoslaw Stefanski

2016, month February, vol 9

Understanding the New Public Outlook on the Economy and Middle-Class Decline: How FDI Attitues are Caught in a Tentative Closing of the Canadian Mind

Frank Graves

Give Canada Post a Break: Allowing More Pricing Flexibility and Competition Could Help the Corporation Succeed

Philippe De Donder

Rates of Return on Flow-Through Shares: Investors and Governments Beware

Vijay Jog

2016, month January, vol 9

The False Panacea of City Charters? A Political Perspective on the Case of Toronto

Andrew Sancton

Is 'Charter-City Status' A Solution for Financing City Services in Canada - or is that a Myth?

Harry Kitchen

Energy Literacy in Canada: A Summary

Dale Eisler