Media Releases

September 12, 2013 – The costs of public sector investments in infrastructure projects are underestimated and should include the risks to taxpayers who backstop them, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In “ The Valuation of Public Projects: Risks, Cost of Financing…

September 4, 2013 – Predicting recessions in real-time could be made possible by mining vast new sources of electronic data, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Predicting Recessions in Real-Time: Mining Google Trends and  Electronic Payments Data for Clues…

August 29, 2013 — The C.D. Howe Institute’s Monetary Policy Council (MPC) today recommended that the Bank of Canada keep its target for the overnight rate, the very short-term interest rate the Bank targets for monetary policy purposes, at 1.00 percent at its next announcement on September…

August 28, 2013 – After five years of smaller reforms, Ontario should get on with fixing major shortcomings that remain in its workplace pension system, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute.  In “Ontario Pension Policy 2013: Key Challenges Ahead,” author Barry…