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299: TFSAs: One More Case for Longer-Term Mortgages: Financial Stability

Michael Feldman

298: TFSAs: Time for a Tune-Up

Alex Laurin

297: The Big Shakeup: Making Sense of the OECD Digital Tax Proposals

Jeffrey Trossman and Jeffrey Shafer

296: Keeping Score: Investor-State Dispute Awards between the US and Canada

Lawrence Herman

295: Funding for Results in Higher Education

Alex Usher

294: The Paycheck Blues: Why Extra Work is often Not Worth the Effort for Lower-income Families

Alex Laurin

293: Inflation after the Crisis: What’s the Story?

Jeremy Kronick and Farah Omran

292: Growth Surge: How Private Equity Can Scale Up Firms and the Economy

Daniel Schwanen, Jeremy Kronick and Farah Omran

291: Why We Fail to Catch Money Launderers 99.9 percent of the Time

Kevin Comeau

290: Healthcare Spending Overshoots a Threat to Sustainability

William Robson

289: Moving the Coal-Posts: Ottawa’s Wrong Turn on Carbon Pricing for Electricity Generation

Grant Bishop

288: Measuring and Managing the Unknown: Methane Emissions from the Oil and Gas Value Chain

Sarah Marie Jordaan and Kate Konschnik

287: Mothers at Work: The Fiscal Implications of the Proposed Ontario Childcare Rebate

Alexandre Laurin and Jacob Kim

286: Business Tax Burdens in Canada’s Major Cities: The 2018 Report Card

Adam Found and Peter Tomlinson

285: Assessing Active Labour-Market Programs: How Effective is Ontario Works?

Jason Adams, Ken Chow and David Rose

284: The Rocky Road to Canada-wide Carbon Pricing

Tracy Snoddon

283: Unhappy Returns: A Preliminary Estimate of Taxpayers Responsiveness to the 2016 Top Tax Rate Hike

Alexandre Laurin

282: Rich Man, Poor Man: The Policy Implications of Canadians Living Longer

Kevin Milligan and Tammy Schirle

281: Hosing Homebuyers: Why Cities Should Not Pay for Water and Wastewater Infrastructure with Development Charges

Benjamin Dachis

280: Foreign Direct Investment in Canada – The Case for Further Openness and Transparency

Daniel Schwanen

279: Speed Bump Ahead: Ottawa Should Drive Slowly on Clean Fuel Standards

Benjamin Dachis

278: Deferring Receipt of Public Pension Benefits: A Tool for Flexibility

Antoine Genest-Grégoire, René Beaudry, Luc Godbout and Bernard Morency

277: Modernizing Canada’s Healthcare System through the Virtualization of Services

R. Sacha Bhatia and William Falk

276: Buildings with Benefits: The Defect of Density Bonusing

Aaron Moore

275: Healthcare Costs in Canada: Stopping Bad News Getting Worse

William Robson

274: Inflated Expectations: More Immigrants Can’t Solve Canada’s Aging Problem on Their Own

William Robson and Parisa Mahboubi

273: Canada’s 2018 Innovation Policy Report Card

Daniel Schwanen

272: Measuring Student Outcomes: The Case for Identifying Indigenous Students in Canada’s PISA Sample

John Richards and Parisa Mahboubi

271: Reality Bites: How Canada’s Healthcare System Compares to its International Peers

Colin Busby, Ramya Muthukaran and Aaron Jacobs

270: Two-Parent Families with Children: How Effective Tax Rates Affect Work Decisions

Alexandre Laurin

269: Business Tax Burdens in Canada’s Major Cities: The 2017 Report Card

Adam Found and Peter Tomlinson

268: The Fiscal Implications of Canadians’ Working Longer

William Robson, Colin Busby and Aaron Jacobs

267: Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation: More Educated, But Less Skilled Canadians

Parisa Mahboubi

266: Flying Below the Radar: The Harmful Impact of Ontario’s Business Property Tax

Adam Found

265: No Need to Reinvent the Wheel: Promoting Donations of Private Company Shares and Real Estate

Adam Aptowitzer

264: Closing the Divide: Progress and Challenges in Adult Skills Development among Indigenous Peoples

Parisa Mahboubi and Colin Busby

263: Ontario’s Green Energy Experience: Sobering Lessons for Sustainable Climate Change Policies

Michael Trebilcock

262: Immigrants’ Source Country Education and Their Canadian Labour Market

Qing Li

261: Table Stakes: Congress Will be Sitting across from Canada at the NAFTA 2.0 Negotiations

Christopher Sands

260: Adding More Juice: How Private Investors can Improve the Performance of Provincial Power Assets

Steven Robins

259: Casting Off: How Ottawa Can Maximize the Value of Canada’s Major Ports and Benefit Taxpayers

Steven Robins

258: Premium Compensation: The Ballooning Cost of Federal Government Employees

William Robson and Alexandre Laurin

257: Surge Capacity: Selling City-owned Electricity Distributors to Meet Broader Municipal Infrastructure Needs

Steven Robins

256: Bigger CPP, Bigger Risks: What “Fully Funded” Expansion Means and Doesn’t Mean

William Robson and Alexandre Laurin

255: Equipment Failure: Feeble Business Investment Costs Canadians their Competitive Edge

William Robson, Benjamin Dachis and Aaron Jacobs

254: Promoting Innovation and Efficiencies through Changes to the Competition Bureau’s Merger Review Process

Brian Facey and Joshua Krane

253: A Better Flight Path: How Ottawa can Cash In on Airports and Benefit Travellers

Steven Robins

252: How Concerned Should We Be About Differing Fundraising Capabilities and School Results? The Toronto District School Board Example

David Johnson and Huijie Guo

251: The effect of business property and land transfer taxes on new investment

Adam Found and Peter Tomlinson

250: Takeover Rules: In Support of the Longer Minimum Bid Period

Sharon Geraghty