The Incentive Effects of Fiscal Equalization Grants
In this paper, Professor Bev Dahlby of the University of Alberta, extends the theoretical work of Smart (1998) that shows that equalization grants give recipient governments the incentive to set tax rates too high because a portion of the resulting loss of revenue is made up through equalization.
What’s Wrong with Equalization: Social Insurance and Moral Hazard
In this third paper based on the public choice approach, Professor Herb Grubel of the Fraser Institute argues strongly against transfers to individuals and governments in lower income regions of the country.
Federal Grants Under the Discipline of Global Forces
Professors Michel Boucher and Jean-Luc Migué from École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP) and the Fraser Institute respectively uses a public choice framework to analyze empirically the impact of trade liberalization on intergovernmental transfers.
Equalization: Neither Welfare Trap or Helping Hand
Annette Ryan of the Prince Edward Island Department of Finance responds to critics of Equalization, arguing it is unfair to expect equalization to reduce inter-provincial disparity when no one argues that within-province transfers should eliminate all intra-province disparities.
The Equalization Initiative
For the third time in six years, Atlantic Canada’s public policy think tank has been honoured by the international think tank community. At a ceremony last Wednesday evening in Philadelphia, [...]
Better Medicine
Better Medicine: Reforming Canada’s Health Care, published in April 2002, is a brilliant collaboration of essays by some of Canada’s leading authorities in health care policy.