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A Crisis of Capital: Canadian Workers Need More Tools, Buildings and Equipment 0 0 0 3 1 1 3 20
Accounting for and Thinking about Social Security Liabilities in Canada 0 0 0 11 1 3 4 104
An Aging Population Fiscal Challenge: Planning for Healthcare Costs in Quebec 0 0 0 18 1 2 2 56
Bending Canada's Healthcare Cost Curve: Watch Not What Governments Say, But What They Do 0 0 0 55 4 6 6 84
Bigger CPP, Bigger Risks: What “Fully Funded” Expansion Means and Doesn’t Mean 0 0 0 15 1 5 5 26
Boomer Bulge: Dealing with the Stress of Demographic Change on Government Budgets in Canada 0 0 0 74 1 3 5 319
Capital Needed: Canada Needs More Robust Business Investment 0 0 0 11 2 4 7 35
Delivering Healthcare to an Aging Population: Nova Scotia’s Fiscal Glacier 0 0 0 43 2 2 4 90
Disarmed and Disadvantaged: Canada’s Workers Need More Physical Capital to Confront the Productivity Challenge 0 0 0 30 5 8 10 160
Drawing Down Our Savings: The Prospects for RRIF Holders Following the 2015 Federal Budget 0 0 0 7 2 7 9 28
Endogenous Buffer Stock Money 1 1 1 9 3 3 3 19
Equipment Failure: Feeble Business Investment Costs Canadians their Competitive Edge 0 0 0 11 2 2 6 17
Equipping Canadian Workers: Business Investment Loses a Step against Competitors Abroad 0 0 0 11 2 4 5 34
Federal Employee Pension Reforms: First Steps - on a Much Longer Journey 0 0 0 17 4 5 6 41
Found Money: Matching Canadians' Saving with Their Infrastructure Needs 0 0 1 8 1 1 3 95
From Living Well to Working Well: Raising Canada's Performance in Non-residential Investment 0 0 0 8 5 7 9 65
Give Canadian Workers the Tools to do the Job! Why Canada Needs More Robust Capital Investment 0 0 1 16 3 7 11 112
Healthcare Costs in Canada: Stopping Bad News Getting Worse 0 0 0 64 3 14 16 51
Healthcare Spending Decelerating? Not so Fast! 0 0 0 32 4 6 9 30
Healthcare Spending Overshoots a Threat to Sustainability 0 0 0 4 1 2 4 36
Healthcare and an Aging Population: Managing Slow-Growing Revenues and Rising Health Spending in British Columbia 0 0 0 9 3 3 6 37
Inflated Expectations: More Immigrants Can’t Solve Canada’s Aging Problem on Their Own 0 0 0 43 3 8 9 60
Lasting Bang for the Stimulus Buck: Priorities for the 2009 Federal Budget 0 0 0 37 3 5 5 118
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Are Demographics a Fiscal Iceberg for Newfoundland and Labrador? 0 0 0 99 4 7 11 191
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Does the Demographic Glacier Portend a Fiscal Ice-Age in Ontario? 0 0 0 55 12 13 19 98
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: How Alberta Can Confront its Coming Fiscal Challenge 0 0 0 42 3 5 5 43
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: How Manitoba Can Confront Its Healthcare Glacier 0 0 0 13 1 2 2 50
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: New Brunswick’s $78 Billion Question 0 0 0 49 3 4 5 33
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Ontario’s Troubling Collision Course 0 0 0 18 2 4 4 57
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Prince Edward Island’s $14 Billion Healthcare Glacier 0 0 0 49 2 5 6 41
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Some Good News and Some Bad News for Saskatchewan 0 0 0 46 1 3 6 51
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: The Fiscal Challenge Quebec Has Yet to Face 0 0 0 53 2 4 5 50
Managing healthcare for an aging population: will demographics push Newfoundland and Labrador into a fiscal deep freeze? 0 0 0 50 4 5 5 52
Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: British Columbia Confronts its Glacier 0 0 0 46 1 3 5 43
Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Manitoba’s Looming Funding Gap 0 0 0 36 1 2 3 33
Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Nova Scotia’s Healthcare Glacier 0 0 0 55 5 8 8 39
Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Prince Edward Island’s $13 Billion Healthcare Squeeze 0 0 0 16 2 4 12 68
Managing the Costs of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Good—and Bad—News About Saskatchewan’s Fiscal Glacier 0 0 0 9 3 3 4 41
Managing the Costs of Healthcare for an Aging Population: How Alberta Can Confront its Fiscal Glacier 0 0 0 6 3 3 3 36
Managing the Costs of Healthcare for an Aging Population: The Fiscal Impact of New Brunswick’s Demographic Glacier 0 0 0 19 2 2 2 56
Ottawa's Pension Gap: The Growing and Under-reported Cost of Federal Employee Pensions 0 0 0 19 3 4 4 102
Ottawa's Secret Debt: The Burden and Risks of Federal Employee Pensions 0 0 0 4 0 3 3 21
Outliving Our Savings: Registered Retirement Income Funds Rules Need a Big Update 0 0 0 14 1 2 3 56
Premium Compensation: The Ballooning Cost of Federal Government Employees 0 0 0 14 9 13 15 33
Stuck on a Spoke: Proliferating Bilateral Trade Deals are a Dangerous Game for Canada 0 0 1 18 1 2 3 128
The Fiscal Implications of Canadians’ Working Longer 0 0 1 24 4 9 12 33
The Glacier Grinds Closer: How Demographics Will Change Canada’s Fiscal Landscape 0 0 2 92 2 3 6 326
The Public-Sector Pension Bubble: Time to Confront the Unmeasured Cost of Ottawa's Pensions 0 0 0 20 0 0 1 88
The Retooling Challenge: Canada's Struggle to Close the Capital Investment Gap 0 0 0 13 1 3 3 54
Unbalanced Books: How to Improve Toronto’s Fiscal Accountability 0 0 0 23 2 4 7 168
What to do About Seniors' Benefits in Canada: the Case for letting Recipients Take Richer Payments Later 0 0 0 4 4 4 6 48
When Striking an Awkward Balance Means Striking Out: Budget 2011 0 0 0 12 5 6 8 49
Will C-36 Undermine CPP “9.9”? Benefit Enhancement and the Sustainability of the Canada Pension Plan 0 0 0 16 5 6 6 105
Total Working Papers 1 1 7 1,470 145 244 329 3,830


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A Faster Track to Fiscal Balance: The 2011 Shadow Budget 0 0 0 15 3 3 3 87
A Social Insurance Model for Pharmacare: Ontario's Options for a More Sustainable, Cost-Effective Drug Program 0 1 1 31 1 6 9 141
Achieving Balance, Spurring Growth: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2012 0 0 0 4 1 3 3 53
Adaptability, Accountability and Sustainability: Intergovernmental Fiscal Arrangements in Canada 0 0 0 3 3 5 8 24
Back to Balance: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2010 0 0 0 29 2 4 4 130
Baffling Budgets: The Sorry State of Municipal Fiscal Accountability in Canada 0 0 2 17 3 8 12 124
Big Spenders: Canada’s Senior Governments Have a Bad Budget Habit 0 0 0 4 2 5 7 31
Blown Budgets: Canada’s Senior Governments Need Better Fiscal Controls 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 23
Building Better Budgets: Canada’s Cities Should Clean Up their Financial Reporting 0 0 0 4 5 5 7 43
By the Numbers: The Fiscal Accountability of Canada's Senior Governments, 2015 0 0 0 10 4 4 4 55
Canada's 2012 Fiscal Accountability Rankings 0 0 0 5 4 10 10 72
Canada’s Looming Retirement Challenge: Will Future Retirees Be Able to Maintain Their Living Standards upon Retirement? 0 0 0 71 2 3 9 296
Challenges, Growth and Opportunity: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2015 0 0 0 9 7 10 13 62
Controlling the Public Purse: The Fiscal Accountability of Canada’s Senior Governments 0 0 1 8 1 1 4 105
Credibility on the (Bottom) Line: The Fiscal Accountability of Canada's Senior Governments, 2013 0 0 1 7 3 3 5 49
Cutting Through Pension Complexity: Easy Steps Forward for the 2010 Federal Budget 0 0 0 5 6 7 7 140
Don’t Double Down on the CPP: Expansion Advocates Understate the Plan’s Risks 0 0 0 9 6 9 11 88
Enduring Virtues: Saving and Investing as National Priorities in 2017 0 0 0 5 1 2 4 58
Equipping Canadians for Success: A Shadow Budget for 2014 0 0 0 3 4 7 7 63
Faster, Younger, Richer? The Fond Hope and Sobering Reality of Immigration's Impact on Canada's Demographic and Economic Future 0 0 1 89 2 3 7 337
Federal Debt Reduction: Choosing Paths 0 0 0 25 1 1 2 216
Fiscal Tonic for an Aging Nation: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2007 0 0 0 7 3 4 6 92
Fixing MP Pensions: Parliamentarians Must Lead Canada's Move to Fairer, and Better-Funded Retirements 0 0 0 10 4 12 16 75
Freeing up Food: The Ongoing Cost, and Potential Reform, of Supply Management 0 0 0 71 5 11 11 252
From A to F: Grading the Fiscal Transparency of Canada’s Cities, 2019 0 0 0 15 2 4 4 56
Fuzzy Finances: Grading the Financial Reports of Canada’s Municipalities 0 0 1 8 6 9 12 68
Getting Real: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2017 0 1 1 3 4 8 10 44
Hidden Spending: The Fiscal Impact of Federal Tax Concessions 0 0 3 22 6 10 15 78
Holding Canada's Cities to Account: an Assessment of Municipal Fiscal Management 0 0 0 11 2 4 11 113
Ill-Defined Benefits: The Uncertain Present and Brighter Future of Employee Pensions in Canada 0 0 0 63 6 8 8 261
Impulse Spending: Canada's 2011 Fiscal Accountability Rankings 0 0 0 5 9 12 13 99
Less Debt, More Growth: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2019 0 0 0 9 1 4 5 49
Missed Targets: Canada's 2007 Fiscal Accountability Ranking 0 0 0 18 3 4 7 102
More RRBs, Please! Why Ottawa Should Issue More Inflation-Indexed Bonds 0 0 0 6 4 6 7 73
Near Hits and Big Misses: Canada's 2009 Fiscal Accountability Rankings 0 0 0 27 1 2 2 139
Numbers You can Trust? The Fiscal Accountability of Canada’s Senior Governments, 2017 0 0 0 2 5 5 6 29
Off the Mark: Canada's 2008 Fiscal Accountability Ranking (also available in French) 0 0 1 9 4 6 7 64
Ottawa's Pension Abyss: The Rapid Hidden Growth of Federal-Employee Retirement Liabilities 0 0 0 5 2 6 7 57
Ottawa’s Hidden Deficit: The Widening Gap between Federal Government Pension Liabilities and Assets 0 0 0 11 5 5 7 48
Prudence and Opportunity: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2013 0 0 0 5 6 8 9 54
Realistic Expectations: Demographics and the Pursuit of Prosperity in Saskatchewan 0 0 0 43 7 9 10 224
Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Employer-Sponsored Pension Plans in Canada 0 0 0 44 3 3 3 157
Rethinking Limits on Tax-Deferred Retirement Savings in Canada 0 0 0 9 5 8 68 119
Retiring Employees, Unretired Debt: The Surprising Hidden Cost of Federal Employee Pensions 0 0 0 2 5 8 11 38
Righting the Course: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2018 0 0 0 1 5 7 7 57
Safe Harbours: Providing Protection for Canada's Money-Purchase Plan Sponsors 0 0 0 15 3 6 6 161
Show Us the Numbers: Grading the Financial Reports of Canada’s Municipalities 0 0 0 4 4 6 7 32
Show and Tell: Rating the Fiscal Accountability of Canada’s Senior Governments, 2019 0 0 0 5 6 8 10 44
Steering Through Turbulence: The Shadow Federal Budget for 2008 0 0 0 3 4 6 7 50
Stress Test: Demographic Pressures and Policy Options in Atlantic Canada 0 0 0 40 5 7 10 205
Supersized Superannuation: The Startling Fair-Value Cost of Federal Government Pensions 0 0 0 36 2 4 4 250
Supporting Growth, Restoring Confidence: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2020 0 1 1 4 7 11 12 33
Target Practice Needed: Canada’s 2010 Fiscal Accountability Rankings 0 0 0 7 3 4 5 86
The Costs of Inflexible Indexing: Avoiding the Adverse Fiscal Impacts of Lower Inflation 0 0 0 10 6 7 10 105
The Numbers Game: Rating the Fiscal Accountability of Canada’s Senior Governments 0 0 0 4 5 5 6 48
There is No Try: Sustainable Healthcare Requires Reining in Spending Overshoots 0 0 0 3 4 5 8 41
Thin Capitalization: Weak Business Investment Undermines Canadian Workers 0 0 0 2 6 7 8 34
Time and Money: The Challenge of Demographic Change and Government Finances in Canada 0 0 0 56 3 6 6 195
To the Next Level: From Gold Standard to Inflation Targets - to Price Stability? 0 0 0 57 3 4 4 235
Tooling up: Canada Needs More Robust Capital Investment 0 0 0 4 4 4 6 48
Two Sets of Books at City Hall? Grading the Financial Reports of Canada’s Cities 1 1 1 2 1 5 6 24
What You See is Not What You Get: Budgets versus Results in Canada’s Major Cities, 2019 0 0 0 1 3 4 6 27
Where the Bucks Stop: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2016 0 0 1 4 5 8 11 24
Wild Numbers: Getting Better Fiscal Accountability in Canada’s Municipalities 0 0 0 3 2 3 4 25
Worse Than It Looks: The True Burden and Risks of Federal Employee Pension Plans 0 0 0 4 3 8 12 39
Total Journal Articles 1 4 15 1,023 245 383 551 6,251


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Two Percent Target: The Context, Theory, and Practice of Canadian Monetary Policy since 1991 0 0 0 16 4 5 12 54
Total Books 0 0 0 16 4 5 12 54


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Six Pillars of Social Policy: The State of Pensions and Health Care in Canada 0 0 0 197 2 8 9 2,488
The Canadian Monetary Order: Past, Present, and Prospects 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 6
Total Chapters 0 0 0 197 4 10 13 2,494


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