This series comprises individual Choices and Policy Matters studies on economic policy issues, including fiscal policy and factors affecting economic growth. Topics recently covered include the brain drain, the effects of Canada’s aging population, the options for tax reform, and the causes of Canada’s fiscal turnaround.

Studies in progress:

• Income splitting and horizontal equity: Pensioners, investors and workers

Studies published to date :

• Income Splitting and Joint Taxation of Couples: What's Fair?
  Jonathan Kesselman
  Choices, February 2008
  

• The Long-Term Budget Challenge: Public Finance and Fiscal Sustainability in the G-7
  various authors
  Conference Paper, June 2005
  

• La dette publique : un défi prioritaire pour le Québec
  Marcelin Joanis, Claude Montmarquette
  Choices, October 2004
  

• The Schumpeterian Wave In Telecommunications: Policy Implications
  Yves Rabeau
  Choices, August 2004
  

• Confiscatory Equalization: The Intriguing Case of Saskatchewan’s Vanishing Energy Revenues
  Thomas J. Courchene
  Choices, March 2004
  

• Tax Design for a Northern Tiger
  Jonathan R. Kesselman
  Choices, March 2004
  

• Modern Welfare States under Pressure: Determinants of Tax Policy in a Globalizing World
  Christian Lammert
  Working papers, February 2004
  

• Is the Debt War Over? Dispatches from Canada's Fiscal Frontline
  Christopher Ragan (ed.), William Watson (ed.)
  Monograph, February 2004
  

• Half-Way Home: Canada’s Remarkable Fiscal Turnaround and the Paul Martin Legacy
  Thomas J. Courchene
  Policy Matters, July 2002
  

• The Bright Side: A Positive View on the Economics of Aging
  Marcel Mérette
  Choices, April 2002
  

• The Brain Drain: Myth and Reality What It Is and What Should be Done
  Ross Finnie
  Choices, November 2001
  

• Pulling Against Gravity: Economic Development in New Brunswick During the McKenna Years
  Donald Savoie
  Monograph, July 2001
  

• Inflation Targeting: The Three Percent Solution
  Pierre Fortin
  Policy Matters, February 2001
  

• A Canadian Perspective on North American Monetary Union
  Thomas J. Courchene
  Special report, January 2001
  

• A State of Minds: Toward a Human Capital Future for Canadians
  Thomas J. Courchene
  Monograph, 2001
  

• Adapting Public Policy to a Labour Market in Transition
  W. Craig Riddell (ed.), France St-Hilaire (ed.)
  Monograph, 2001
  

• Flat Taxes, Dual Taxes, Smart Taxes: Making the Best Choices
  Jonathan Kesselman
  Policy Matters, November 2000