Vol. 8 (2015)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11575/sppp.v8i0

Published: 2017-07-12

Research Papers

Potash Taxation: How Canada’s Regime is Neither Efficient nor Competitive from an International Perspective

Duanjie Chen, Jack M. Mintz
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Bending the Medicare Cost Curve in 12 Months or Less: How Preventative Health Care can Yield Significant Near-Term Savings for Acute Care in Alberta

Daniel J. Dutton, J.C. Herbert Emery, Thomas Mullie, Jennifer D. Zwicker
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What Dependency Issues? Re-examining Assumptions about Canada’s Reliance on the U.S. Export Market

Eugene Beaulieu, Yang Song
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The 2014 Global Tax Competitiveness Report: A Proposed Business Tax Reform Agenda

Duanjie Chen, Jack M. Mintz
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The Distribution of Income and Taxes/Transfers In Canada: A Cohort Analysis

Daria Crisan, Kenneth J. McKenzie, Jack M. Mintz
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Shelter from the Storm: Weather-Induced Patterns in the Use of Emergency Shelters

Ali Jadidzadeh, Ronald D. Kneebone
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After America, Canada’s Moment?

Ian Brodie
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Mining Taxation in Colombia

Duanjie Chen, Guillermo Perry
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Report of the Commission for the Review of Social Assistance in Ontario: Taking Stock Two Years Later

Munir A. Sheikh
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Better off Dead: “Value Added” in Economic Policy Debates

Trevor Tombe
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The Exempt Market in Canada: Empirics, Observations and Recommendations

Vijay Jog
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Who Are the Homeless? Numbers, Trends and Characteristics of Those Without Homes in Calgary

Ronald D. Kneebone, Meaghan Bell, Nicole Jackson, Ali Jadidzadeh
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Caught in the Middle: Some in Canada’s Middle Class are Doing Well; Others Have Good Reason to Worry

Philip Cross, Munir A. Sheikh
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The Siren Song of Economic Diversification: Alberta’s Legacy of Loss

F.L. Ted Morton, Meredith McDonald
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Peering into Alberta’s Darkening Future: How Oil Prices Impact Alberta’s Royalty Revenues

Sarah Dobson
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A Primer on Recent Canadian Defence Budgeting Trends and Implications

David Perry
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Improving the Acquisition Process in Canada

J. Craig Stone
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What Canada could learn from U.S. defence procurement: Issues, best practices and recommendations

Anessa L. Kimball
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Estimating Discount Rates

Laurence Booth
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D-fence Against the Canadian Winter: Making Insufficient Vitamin D Levels a Higher Priority for Public Health

Jennifer D. Zwicker
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No Statecraft, Questionable Jurisprudence: How the Supreme Court Tried to Kill Senate Reform

F.L. Ted Morton
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Mind the Gap: Dealing with Resource Revenue in Three Provinces

Ronald D. Kneebone
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Small and Exposed: Debt Accumulation in Canada’s Small Provinces

Ronald D. Kneebone
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Sources of Debt Accumulation in Resource-Dependent Provinces

Ronald D. Kneebone
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The Problem with the Low-Tax Backlash: Rethinking Corporate Tax Policies to Adjust for Uneven Reputational Risks

Jack M. Mintz, V. Balaji Venkatachalam
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Addendum to “Bending the Medicare Cost Curve in 12 Months or Less”: AHS Analysis for Sample of Pure North Seniors (55-plus)

Daniel J. Dutton, J.C. Herbert Emery
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The Structure and Presentation of Provincial Budgets

Bev Dahlby, Michael Smart
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Canada-Mexico Trade: An Arranged Marriage Comes Of Age

Laura Dawson
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Alternatives to Criminalizing Public Intoxication: Case Study of a Sobering Centre in Calgary, AB

Alina Turner
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The Recession’s Impact on Canada’s Labour Market

Philip Cross
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Extractive Resource Governance: Creating Maximum Benefit for Countries

Shantel Jordison
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The Case of Canadian Bulk Water Exports

Rhett Larson
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The Impact of Converting Federal Non-Refundable Tax Credits Into Refundable Credits

Wayne Simpson, Harvey Stevens
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Canada, The Law of the Sea Treaty and International Payments: Where Will The Money Come From?

Wylie Spicer
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What do we Know About Improving Employment Outcomes for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder?

Carolyn Dudley, David B. Nicholas, Jennifer D. Zwicker
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Taxing Stock Options: Efficiency, Fairness and Revenue Implications

Jack M. Mintz, V. Balaji Venkatachalam
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An Energy Strategy for Canada

Michal C. Moore
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Macroprudential Policy: A Review

Mahdi Ebrahimi Kahou, Alfred Lehar
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Reflections on Calgary’s Spatial Structure: An Urban Economist’s Critique of Municipal Planning in Calgary

Richard Arnott
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An Exploration into the Municipal Capacity to Finance Capital Infrastructure

Almos T. Tassony, Brian W. Conger
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Optimal Public Infrastructure: Some Guideposts to Ensure we don’t Overspend

Philip Bazel, Jack M. Mintz
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Striking the Right Balance: Federal Infrastructure Transfer Programs, 2002–2015

Bev Dahlby, Emily Jackson
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A Comparative Anatomy of Oil Price Routs: A Review of Four Price Routs between 1985 and 2014

Robert Skinner
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The Case for a Carbon Tax in Alberta

Sarah Dobson, Jennifer Winter
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2015 Status Report on Major Defence Equipment Procurements

David Perry
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Championing the Joint Force: A Job for the Public and our Political Leaders – Not Just Military Professionals Alone

Stuart Beare
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Briefing Papers

How is Funding Medical Research Better for Patients?

Jennifer D. Zwicker, J.C. Herbert Emery
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Communiqués

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Laurence Kotlikoff
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Why Delay the Inevitable: Why the AIIB Matters to Canada’s Future

Eugene Beaulieu, Wendy Dobson
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The North West Sturgeon Upgrader: Good Money after Bad?

F.L. Ted Morton
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On Livability, Liveability and the Limited Utility of Quality-of-Life Rankings

Brian W. Conger
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Symposium on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Beyond: Advancing Canadian Trade and Investment in Asia

Randolph Mank
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): An Overview

John M. Curtis
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A Primer on Alberta’s Oil sands Royalties

Sarah Dobson
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