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A Crisis of Capital: Canadian Workers Need More Tools, Buildings and Equipment 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 19
Accounting for and Thinking about Social Security Liabilities in Canada 0 0 0 11 2 3 3 103
An Aging Population Fiscal Challenge: Planning for Healthcare Costs in Quebec 0 0 0 18 1 1 1 55
Bending Canada's Healthcare Cost Curve: Watch Not What Governments Say, But What They Do 0 0 0 55 1 2 2 80
Bigger CPP, Bigger Risks: What “Fully Funded” Expansion Means and Doesn’t Mean 0 0 0 15 1 4 5 25
Boomer Bulge: Dealing with the Stress of Demographic Change on Government Budgets in Canada 0 0 0 74 2 2 4 318
Capital Needed: Canada Needs More Robust Business Investment 0 0 0 11 2 3 5 33
Delivering Healthcare to an Aging Population: Nova Scotia’s Fiscal Glacier 0 0 0 43 0 1 2 88
Disarmed and Disadvantaged: Canada’s Workers Need More Physical Capital to Confront the Productivity Challenge 0 0 0 30 2 3 5 155
Drawing Down Our Savings: The Prospects for RRIF Holders Following the 2015 Federal Budget 0 0 0 7 4 5 8 26
Endogenous Buffer Stock Money 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 16
Equipment Failure: Feeble Business Investment Costs Canadians their Competitive Edge 0 0 0 11 0 0 4 15
Equipping Canadian Workers: Business Investment Loses a Step against Competitors Abroad 0 0 0 11 1 2 3 32
Federal Employee Pension Reforms: First Steps - on a Much Longer Journey 0 0 0 17 1 1 2 37
Found Money: Matching Canadians' Saving with Their Infrastructure Needs 0 0 1 8 0 1 2 94
From Living Well to Working Well: Raising Canada's Performance in Non-residential Investment 0 0 0 8 2 4 4 60
Give Canadian Workers the Tools to do the Job! Why Canada Needs More Robust Capital Investment 0 0 1 16 3 5 8 109
Healthcare Costs in Canada: Stopping Bad News Getting Worse 0 0 0 64 11 11 13 48
Healthcare Spending Decelerating? Not so Fast! 0 0 0 32 2 4 5 26
Healthcare Spending Overshoots a Threat to Sustainability 0 0 0 4 1 1 4 35
Healthcare and an Aging Population: Managing Slow-Growing Revenues and Rising Health Spending in British Columbia 0 0 0 9 0 0 3 34
Inflated Expectations: More Immigrants Can’t Solve Canada’s Aging Problem on Their Own 0 0 0 43 4 5 6 57
Lasting Bang for the Stimulus Buck: Priorities for the 2009 Federal Budget 0 0 1 37 2 2 3 115
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Are Demographics a Fiscal Iceberg for Newfoundland and Labrador? 0 0 0 99 1 3 7 187
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Does the Demographic Glacier Portend a Fiscal Ice-Age in Ontario? 0 0 0 55 1 3 8 86
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: How Alberta Can Confront its Coming Fiscal Challenge 0 0 0 42 1 2 2 40
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: How Manitoba Can Confront Its Healthcare Glacier 0 0 0 13 1 1 2 49
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: New Brunswick’s $78 Billion Question 0 0 0 49 1 1 2 30
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Ontario’s Troubling Collision Course 0 0 0 18 2 2 2 55
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Prince Edward Island’s $14 Billion Healthcare Glacier 0 0 0 49 1 3 4 39
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Some Good News and Some Bad News for Saskatchewan 0 0 0 46 2 3 5 50
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: The Fiscal Challenge Quebec Has Yet to Face 0 0 0 53 1 3 4 48
Managing healthcare for an aging population: will demographics push Newfoundland and Labrador into a fiscal deep freeze? 0 0 0 50 0 1 1 48
Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: British Columbia Confronts its Glacier 0 0 0 46 1 3 4 42
Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Manitoba’s Looming Funding Gap 0 0 0 36 0 1 2 32
Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Nova Scotia’s Healthcare Glacier 0 0 0 55 2 3 3 34
Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Prince Edward Island’s $13 Billion Healthcare Squeeze 0 0 0 16 2 8 10 66
Managing the Costs of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Good—and Bad—News About Saskatchewan’s Fiscal Glacier 0 0 0 9 0 0 2 38
Managing the Costs of Healthcare for an Aging Population: How Alberta Can Confront its Fiscal Glacier 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 33
Managing the Costs of Healthcare for an Aging Population: The Fiscal Impact of New Brunswick’s Demographic Glacier 0 0 0 19 0 0 1 54
Ottawa's Pension Gap: The Growing and Under-reported Cost of Federal Employee Pensions 0 0 0 19 1 1 2 99
Ottawa's Secret Debt: The Burden and Risks of Federal Employee Pensions 0 0 0 4 1 3 3 21
Outliving Our Savings: Registered Retirement Income Funds Rules Need a Big Update 0 0 0 14 1 1 2 55
Premium Compensation: The Ballooning Cost of Federal Government Employees 0 0 0 14 1 4 6 24
Stuck on a Spoke: Proliferating Bilateral Trade Deals are a Dangerous Game for Canada 0 0 1 18 1 1 2 127
The Fiscal Implications of Canadians’ Working Longer 0 0 2 24 4 7 9 29
The Glacier Grinds Closer: How Demographics Will Change Canada’s Fiscal Landscape 0 0 2 92 1 1 4 324
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 2 2 53
Unbalanced Books: How to Improve Toronto’s Fiscal Accountability 0 0 0 23 2 3 5 166
What to do About Seniors' Benefits in Canada: the Case for letting Recipients Take Richer Payments Later 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 44
When Striking an Awkward Balance Means Striking Out: Budget 2011 0 0 0 12 1 2 3 44
Will C-36 Undermine CPP “9.9”? Benefit Enhancement and the Sustainability of the Canada Pension Plan 0 0 0 16 0 1 1 100
Total Working Papers 0 0 8 1,469 72 124 195 3,685


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A Faster Track to Fiscal Balance: The 2011 Shadow Budget 0 0 0 15 0 0 1 84
A Social Insurance Model for Pharmacare: Ontario's Options for a More Sustainable, Cost-Effective Drug Program 1 1 1 31 5 7 9 140
Achieving Balance, Spurring Growth: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2012 0 0 0 4 1 2 2 52
Adaptability, Accountability and Sustainability: Intergovernmental Fiscal Arrangements in Canada 0 0 0 3 1 2 5 21
Back to Balance: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2010 0 0 0 29 2 2 2 128
Baffling Budgets: The Sorry State of Municipal Fiscal Accountability in Canada 0 0 2 17 3 5 9 121
Big Spenders: Canada’s Senior Governments Have a Bad Budget Habit 0 0 0 4 3 3 5 29
Blown Budgets: Canada’s Senior Governments Need Better Fiscal Controls 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 21
Building Better Budgets: Canada’s Cities Should Clean Up their Financial Reporting 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 38
By the Numbers: The Fiscal Accountability of Canada's Senior Governments, 2015 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 51
Canada's 2012 Fiscal Accountability Rankings 0 0 0 5 5 6 7 68
Canada’s Looming Retirement Challenge: Will Future Retirees Be Able to Maintain Their Living Standards upon Retirement? 0 0 1 71 1 1 8 294
Challenges, Growth and Opportunity: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2015 0 0 0 9 3 5 6 55
Controlling the Public Purse: The Fiscal Accountability of Canada’s Senior Governments 0 1 1 8 0 2 3 104
Credibility on the (Bottom) Line: The Fiscal Accountability of Canada's Senior Governments, 2013 0 0 1 7 0 0 2 46
Cutting Through Pension Complexity: Easy Steps Forward for the 2010 Federal Budget 0 0 0 5 1 1 1 134
Don’t Double Down on the CPP: Expansion Advocates Understate the Plan’s Risks 0 0 0 9 2 5 5 82
Enduring Virtues: Saving and Investing as National Priorities in 2017 0 0 0 5 1 2 3 57
Equipping Canadians for Success: A Shadow Budget for 2014 0 0 0 3 1 3 3 59
Faster, Younger, Richer? The Fond Hope and Sobering Reality of Immigration's Impact on Canada's Demographic and Economic Future 0 0 1 89 1 2 5 335
Federal Debt Reduction: Choosing Paths 0 0 0 25 0 0 1 215
Fiscal Tonic for an Aging Nation: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2007 0 0 0 7 1 3 3 89
Fixing MP Pensions: Parliamentarians Must Lead Canada's Move to Fairer, and Better-Funded Retirements 0 0 0 10 4 8 13 71
Freeing up Food: The Ongoing Cost, and Potential Reform, of Supply Management 0 0 0 71 5 6 6 247
From A to F: Grading the Fiscal Transparency of Canada’s Cities, 2019 0 0 0 15 2 2 2 54
Fuzzy Finances: Grading the Financial Reports of Canada’s Municipalities 0 0 1 8 3 5 6 62
Getting Real: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2017 0 1 1 3 2 6 6 40
Hidden Spending: The Fiscal Impact of Federal Tax Concessions 0 0 3 22 2 6 9 72
Holding Canada's Cities to Account: an Assessment of Municipal Fiscal Management 0 0 0 11 1 3 12 111
Ill-Defined Benefits: The Uncertain Present and Brighter Future of Employee Pensions in Canada 0 0 0 63 2 2 2 255
Impulse Spending: Canada's 2011 Fiscal Accountability Rankings 0 0 0 5 3 3 4 90
Less Debt, More Growth: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2019 0 0 0 9 2 4 4 48
Missed Targets: Canada's 2007 Fiscal Accountability Ranking 0 0 0 18 1 1 4 99
More RRBs, Please! Why Ottawa Should Issue More Inflation-Indexed Bonds 0 0 0 6 0 2 3 69
Near Hits and Big Misses: Canada's 2009 Fiscal Accountability Rankings 0 0 0 27 1 1 1 138
Numbers You can Trust? The Fiscal Accountability of Canada’s Senior Governments, 2017 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 24
Off the Mark: Canada's 2008 Fiscal Accountability Ranking (also available in French) 0 1 1 9 1 3 3 60
Ottawa's Pension Abyss: The Rapid Hidden Growth of Federal-Employee Retirement Liabilities 0 0 0 5 3 5 6 55
Ottawa’s Hidden Deficit: The Widening Gap between Federal Government Pension Liabilities and Assets 0 0 0 11 0 1 2 43
Prudence and Opportunity: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2013 0 0 0 5 1 2 3 48
Realistic Expectations: Demographics and the Pursuit of Prosperity in Saskatchewan 0 0 0 43 2 2 3 217
Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Employer-Sponsored Pension Plans in Canada 0 0 0 44 0 0 0 154
Rethinking Limits on Tax-Deferred Retirement Savings in Canada 0 0 0 9 2 5 63 114
Retiring Employees, Unretired Debt: The Surprising Hidden Cost of Federal Employee Pensions 0 0 0 2 3 6 6 33
Righting the Course: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2018 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 52
Safe Harbours: Providing Protection for Canada's Money-Purchase Plan Sponsors 0 0 0 15 2 3 3 158
Show Us the Numbers: Grading the Financial Reports of Canada’s Municipalities 0 0 0 4 0 2 3 28
Show and Tell: Rating the Fiscal Accountability of Canada’s Senior Governments, 2019 0 0 0 5 2 3 4 38
Steering Through Turbulence: The Shadow Federal Budget for 2008 0 0 0 3 0 3 3 46
Stress Test: Demographic Pressures and Policy Options in Atlantic Canada 0 0 0 40 2 3 5 200
Supersized Superannuation: The Startling Fair-Value Cost of Federal Government Pensions 0 0 0 36 1 2 2 248
Supporting Growth, Restoring Confidence: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2020 1 1 1 4 3 4 5 26
Target Practice Needed: Canada’s 2010 Fiscal Accountability Rankings 0 0 0 7 1 2 3 83
The Costs of Inflexible Indexing: Avoiding the Adverse Fiscal Impacts of Lower Inflation 0 0 0 10 0 3 4 99
The Numbers Game: Rating the Fiscal Accountability of Canada’s Senior Governments 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 43
There is No Try: Sustainable Healthcare Requires Reining in Spending Overshoots 0 0 0 3 0 2 4 37
Thin Capitalization: Weak Business Investment Undermines Canadian Workers 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 28
Time and Money: The Challenge of Demographic Change and Government Finances in Canada 0 0 0 56 3 3 3 192
To the Next Level: From Gold Standard to Inflation Targets - to Price Stability? 0 0 0 57 1 1 1 232
Tooling up: Canada Needs More Robust Capital Investment 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 44
Two Sets of Books at City Hall? Grading the Financial Reports of Canada’s Cities 0 0 0 1 4 4 6 23
What You See is Not What You Get: Budgets versus Results in Canada’s Major Cities, 2019 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 24
Where the Bucks Stop: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2016 0 1 1 4 1 5 6 19
Wild Numbers: Getting Better Fiscal Accountability in Canada’s Municipalities 0 0 0 3 1 1 2 23
Worse Than It Looks: The True Burden and Risks of Federal Employee Pension Plans 0 0 0 4 5 6 9 36
Total Journal Articles 2 6 15 1,022 100 178 320 6,006


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Two Percent Target: The Context, Theory, and Practice of Canadian Monetary Policy since 1991 0 0 0 16 1 1 8 50
Total Books 0 0 0 16 1 1 8 50


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 3 6 7 2,486
The Canadian Monetary Order: Past, Present, and Prospects 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 4
Total Chapters 0 0 0 197 3 7 9 2,490


Statistics updated 2026-01-09