SPP Research Papers

2008 - 2024

From The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
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2013, month December, vol 6

How a Guaranteed Annual Income Could Put Food Banks Out of Business

John Emery, Valerie C. Fleisch and Lynn McIntyre

Canadian Defence Commitments: Overview and Status of Selected Acquisitions and Initiatives

Elinor Sloan

2013, month November, vol 6

2013 Annual Global Tax Competitiveness Ranking: Corporate Tax Policy at a Crossroads

Duanjie Chen and Jack Mintz

Climate Change and the Trading System: After Doha and Doha

Dan Ciuriak and Natassia Ciuriak

2013, month October, vol 6

The Prudential Regulation of Financial Institutions: Why Regulatory Responses to the Crisis Might Not Prove Sufficient

William R. White

The Challenge of Defining Medicare Coverage in Canada

John Emery and Ronald Kneebone

The "Green Jobs" Fantasy: Why the Economic and Environmental Reality Can Never Live Up to the Political Promise

Michal C. Moore and Jennifer Winter

The Canadian Dollar and the Dutch and Canadian Diseases

Serge Coulombe

2013, month September, vol 6

Enhancing the Alberta Tax Advantage with a Harmonized Sales Tax

Philip Bazel and Jack Mintz

Accountability by Design: Moving Primary Care Reform Ahead in Alberta

Shannon Speceley, Cheryl Andres, Janet Lapins, Robert Wedel, Toblas Gelber and Lisa Halma

Wireless Competition in Canada: An Assessment

Jeffrey Church and Andrew Wilkins

The Canadian Manufacturing Sector, 2002-2008: Why is it Called Dutch Disease?

Stephen Gordon

2013, month August, vol 6

Diplomacy, Globalization and Heteropolarity: The Challenge of Adaptation

Daryl Copeland

Income Inequality, Redistribution and Economic Growth

Bev Dahlby and Ergete Ferede

Income Inequality and Income Taxation in Canada: Trends in the Census 1980-2005

Kevin Milligan

Redistribution of Income: Policy Directions

James Davies

2013, month July, vol 6

Unhealthy Pressure: How Physician Pay Demands Put the Squeeze on Provincial Health-Care Budgets

Hugh Grant and Jeremiah Hurley

Trends, Peaks and Troughs: National and Regional Employment Cycles in Canada

Ronald Kneebone and Margarita Gres

2013, month June, vol 6

The Fiscal, Social and Economic Dividends of Feeling Better and Living Longer

John Emery, Ken Fyie, Ludovic Brunel and Daniel J. Dutton

China's State Owned Enterprises: How Much Do We Know? From CNOOC to its Siblings

Duanjie Chen

2013, month May, vol 6

Repairing Canada's Mining-Tax System to be Less Distorting and Complex

Duanjie Chen and Jack Mintz

Not So Fast: How Slower Utilities Regulations Can Reduce Prices and Increase Profits

Garret Fellows

All the Workers We Need: Debunking Canada's Labour-Shortfall Fallacy

Kevin McQuillan

2013, month April, vol 6

No More Second-Class Taxpayers: How Income Splitting Can Bring Fairness to Canada's Single-Income Families

Matt Krzepkowski and Jack Mintz

2013, month March, vol 6

The Importance of Policy Neutrality for Lowering Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Trevor Tombe and Jennifer Winter

Appreciate the Appreciation: Imported Inputs and Concern Over Dutch Disease

Wardah Naim and Trevor Tombe

Canadian Manufacturing Malaise: Three Hypotheses

Matt Krzepkowski and Jack Mintz

A Recovery Program for Alberta: A 10-Year Plan to End the Addiction to Resource Revenues

Ronald Kneebone and Margarita Gres

2013, month February, vol 6

Reform Proposals for Replenishing Retirement Savings

Jack Mintz and Thomas A. Wilson

Government-Owned Enterprises in Canada

Daria Crisan and Kenneth McKenzie

Pacific Basin Heavy Oil Refining Capacity

David Hackett, Leigh Noda, Susan W. Grissom, Michal C. Moore and Jennifer Winter

Fixing Saskatchewan's Potash Royalty Mess: A New Approach for Economic Efficiency and Simplicity

Duanjie Chen and Jack Mintz

Sovereign Wealth and Pension Funds Controlling Canadian Businesses: Tax-Policy Implications

Vijay Jog and Jack Mintz

Energy and Energy Literacy in Canada: A Survey of Business and Policy Leadership

Michal C. Moore, Andre Turcotte, Jennifer Winter and P. Bernard Walp

2013, month January, vol 6

Labour Shortages in Saskatchewan

J.C. Herbert Emergy

Tax Loss Utilization and Corporate Groups: A Policy Conundrum

Stephen R. Richardson and Michael Smart

A Primer on the Government of Alberta's Budget

Ronald Kneebone

Instruments for Forest Habitat Connectivity

Elizabeth A. Wilman

2012, month December, vol 5

Managing Tax Expenditures and Government Program Spending: Proposals for Reform

John Lester

2012, month November, vol 5

Changing Landscapes for Charities in Canada: Where Should We Go?

A. Payne

A Profound Tax Reform: Harmonization on Prince Edward Island's Competitiveness

Duanjie Chen and Jack Mintz

2012, month October, vol 5

Energy Literacy in Canada

Andre Turcotte, Michal C. Moore and Jennifer Winter

Can We Avoid a Sick Fiscal Future? The Non-Sustainability of Health-Care Spending on an Aging Population

John Emery, David Still and Tom Cottrell

Capturing Economic Rents from Resources through Royalties and Taxes

Duanjie Chen and Jack Mintz

2012, month September, vol 5

The GST and Financial Services: Pausing for Perspective

Michael Firth and Kenneth McKenzie

2012 Annual Global Tax Competitiveness Ranking - A Canadian Good News Story

Duanjie Chen and Jack Mintz

Dancing with the Dragon: Canadian Investment in China and Chinese Investment in Canada

Josephine Smart

2012, month July, vol 5

Size, Role and Performance in the Oil and Gas Sector

Robert Mansell, Jennifer Winter, Matt Krzepkowski and Michal C. Moore

The Big and the Small of Tax Support for R&D in Canada

Kenneth McKenzie

2012, month June, vol 5

How You Pay Determines What You Get: Alternative Financing Options as a Determinant of Publicly Funded Health Care in Canada

Ronald Kneebone

Policy Options for Reducing Dietary Sodium Intake

Lindsay McLaren

Supply Management Problem, Politics - and Possibilities

Martha Hall Findlay

A White Paper on Reforming Canada's Transportation Policies for the 21st Century

Brian Flemming

Preventing Domestic Violence in Alberta: A Cost Savings Perspective

Lana Wells, Casey Boodt and John Emery

2012, month May, vol 5

Negotiated Settlements: Long-Term Profits and Costs

Garret Fellows

2012, month April, vol 5

Reforming the Tax Mix in Canada

Bev Dahlby

Assisted Reproduction Policy in Federal States: What Canada Should Learn from Australia

Dave Snow and Rainer Knopff

2012, month March, vol 5

The Role of Crown Corporations in the Canadian Economy: An Analytical Framework

Edward M. Iacobucci and Michael J. Trebilcock

Tantalus Unbound: Government Policy and Innovation in Canada

Jeffrey G. MacIntosh

Implications of the Recommendations of the Expert Panel on Federal Support to Research and Development

Preston Manning and Jack Mintz

Smart Environmental Policy with Full-Cost Pricing

Nancy Olewiler

Taxing Consumption or Income: Du Pareil au Meme

Sijbren Cnossen

The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country

Richard Bird

A Proposal to Create a Pan-Canadian Energy Information Organization (CEIO)

Michal C. Moore

2012, month February, vol 5

Departures from Neutrality in Canada's Goods and Services Tax

Michael Smart

2012, month January, vol 5

A Review and Assessment of Privatization in Canada

Anthony Boardman and Aidan Vining

The International Experience with Privatization: Its Rapid Rise, Partial Fall and Uncertain Future

John Nellis

Housing Subsidies and Homelessness: A Simple Idea

Brendan O'Flaherty

Public Sector Wage Growth in Alberta

Ken Boessenkool and Ben Eisen