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Economic Growth and Innovation
2008-08 A Question of Parliamentary Power: Criminal Law and the Control of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  Hogg, Peter W.
 
2008-07 Anatomy of the Credit Crisis: The Role of Faulty Risk Management Systems
  Milne, Frank
 
2008-07 The Ethanol Trap: Why Policies to Promote Ethanol as Fuel Need Rethinking
  Auld, Douglas
 
2008-07 Richer Than We Think: Why Canadians’ Purchasing Power Is Up While Economic Growth is Down
  Busby, Colin
 
2008-07 New Tools for a Richer, Greener Future: Why Canadian Workers Need More Robust Business Investment
  Banerjee, Robin and William B.P. Robson
 
2008-05 Clearing Hurdles: Key Reforms to Make Small Business More Successful
  Tomlin, Ben
 
2008-04 Generating the Benefits of Competition: Challenges and Opportunities in Opening Electricity Markets
  Brennan, Timothy J.
 
 
Fiscal Policy
2008-12 Sand in the Gears: Evaluating the Effects of Toronto's Land Transfer Tax
  Dachis, Benjamin, Gilles Duranton and Matthew A. Turner
 
2008-09 Finding Silver Linings in the Storm: An Evaluation of Recent Canada - US Crossborder Developments
  Cockfield, Arthur J.
 
2008-09 No Strings Attached: How The Tax-Free Savings Account Can Help Lower-Income Canadians Get Ahead
  Stapleton, John and Richard Shillington
 
2008-09 Still a Wallflower: The 2008 Report on Canada's International Tax Competitiveness
  Chen, Duanjie and Jack Mintz
 
2008-09 Growth Oriented Sales Tax Reform for Ontario:Replacing the Retail Sales Tax with a 7.5 Percent Value-Added Tax
  Dungan, Peter, Jack Mintz, Finn Poschmann and Thomas Wilson
 
2008-09 No Free Ride: The Cost of Essential Services Designation
  Dachis, Benjamin
 
2008-07 Limited Horizons: The 2008 Report on Federal and Provincial Budgetary Tax Policies
  Chen, Duanjie and Jack M. Mintz
 
2008-05 Greater Saving Required: How Alberta Can Achieve Fiscal Sustainability from its Resource Revenues
  Shiell, Leslie and Colin Busby
 
2008-04 Slicing the Pie: Federal Assistance for Provincial Sales Tax reform
  Dachis, Benjamin
 
2008-02 Objectifs manqués : le classement 2008 de la responsabilité fiscale au Canada
  Busby, Colin and William B.P. Robson
 
2008-02 Off the Mark: Canada’s 2008 Fiscal Accountability Ranking
  Busby, Colin and William B.P. Robson
 
2008-02 After the Oil Rush: A Blueprint for Alberta’s Long-term Happiness
  Busby, Colin
 
2008-02 Steering Through Turbulence: The Shadow Federal Budget for 2008
  Robson, William B.P., Finn Poschmann, Robin Banerjee, Colin Busby and Benjamin Dachis
 
 
Governance and Public Institutions
2008-11 A Pension in Every Pot: Better Pensions for More Canadians
  Pierlot, James
 
2008-11 A Bushel Half Full: Reforming the Canadian Wheat Board
  Charlebois, Sylvain and Richard Pedde
 
2008-10 School Choice and the Benefits of Competition: Evidence from Ontario
  Card, David, Martin Dooley and A. Abigail Payne
 
2008-08 The Case for Trills: Giving Canadians and their Pension Funds a Stake in the Wealth of the Nation
  Kamstra, Mark and Robert J. Shiller
 
2008-07 A Better Riff on Retirement: The Case for Lower Minimum Withdrawals from Registered Retirement Income Funds
  Robson, William B.P.
 
2008-06 Risky Assumptions: A Closer Look at the Bearing of Investment Risk in Defined-Benefit Pension Plans
  Pesando, James E.
 
2008-05 Power Failure: Addressing the Causes of Underinvestment, Inefficiency and Governance Problems in Ontario’s Electricity Sector
  Wyman, Michael
 
2008-05 Greener Pastures: Understanding the Impact of Retirement Incentives
  Schirle, Tammy
 
2008-05 Le régime supplémentaire de retraite du Canada (RSRC) Vers un régime de retraite adéquat et abordable pour tous les Canadiens
  Ambachtsheer, Keith
 
2008-05 The Canada Supplementary Pension Plan (CSPP): Towards an Adequate, Affordable Pension for All Canadians
  Ambachtsheer, Keith
 
2008-04 Lifting the Lid on Pension Funding: Why Income-Tax-Act Limits on Contributions Should Rise
  Banerjee, Robin and William Robson
 
2008-01 Safe Harbours: Providing Protection for Canada’s Money-Purchase Plan Sponsors
  Robson, William B.P.
 
 
International Policy
2008-11 Squeaky Hinges: Widening the Door to Canadian Cross-border Investment
  Krzepkowski, Matt and Jack Mintz
 
2008-11 International Policy Responses to the Financial Crisis: A Canadian Perspective
  Laurin, Alexandre, Finn Poschmann and Robin Banerjee
 
2008-10 Stumbling Forward on Trade: The Doha Round, Free Trade Agreements, and Canada
  Adler, Matthew B.
 
2008-09 Still Amigos: A Fresh Canada - US Approach to Reviving NAFTA
  Alexandroff, Alan S., Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Krista Lucenti
 
2008-03 Navigating New Trade Routes: The Rise of Value Chains, and the Challenges for Canadian Trade Policy
  Dymond, Bill and Michael Hart
 
 
Monetary Policy
2008-12 Unstable Foundations: Asset Markets, Inflation Targets, and Canada's 2011 Policy Choices
  Laidler, David and Robin Banerjee
 
2008-11 Central Banking at a Time of Crisis and Beyond: A Practitioner's Perspective
  Dodge, David A.
 
2008-04 Food and Energy Prices: Why the Bank of Canada Should Remain Focused on the CPI
  Laidler, David
 
2008-01 Fixing the Exchange Rate: Still a Bad Idea
  Laidler, David
 
 
Social Policy
2008-12 Understanding the Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Gap in Student Performance: Lessons From British Columbia
  Richards, John, Jennifer Hove and Kemi Afolabi
 
2008-10 Fixing a Persistent Problem: Canada's Regional Pockets of Unemployment
  Busby, Colin
 
2008-10 Closing the Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal Education Gaps
  Richards, John
 
2008-08 Heads of the Class: A Comparison of Ontario School Boards by Student Achievement
  Johnson, David
 
2008-06 The Welfare Enigma: Explaining the Dramatic Decline in Canadians’ Use of Social Assistance, 1993–2005
  Finnie, Ross and Ian Irvine
 
2008-02 Still High: Marginal Effective Tax Rates on Low-Income Families
  Poschmann, Finn
 
2008-02 School Grades: Identifying British Columbia’s Best Schools
  Johnson, David