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6-minute read
Quel sera l’impact réel d’un paquet de cigarettes réglementé à 100 %?
The effectiveness of plain packaging.
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6-minute read
Le supposé laissez-faire américain et son rôle dans la crise de 2008
The 2008 financial crisis in the United States.
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5-minute read
Comment combattre la corruption ?
How increased competition and a smaller regulatory state can reduce corruption.
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8-minute read
Viewpoint – Less Regulation and More Competition to Curb Corruption
There have been several corruption scandals in Quebec and in the rest of Canada in recent years. Corruption is a problem that affects all countries and all societies, but it is much more prevalent in certain regions than in others. Economic analysis has several things to teach us about these disparities and about economic principles that can check this scourge.
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6-minute read
La crise au Venezuela est le résultat de politiques publiques désastreuses
The real causes of the crisis in Venezuela.
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6-minute read
Trop de réglementation tuerait la révolution Internet dans l’oeuf
The increasing role of communications technologies in our economy.
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4-minute read
Montreal should let food trucks satisfy consumer appetites
The benefits for consumers and workers of liberalizing mobile food vending in Montreal.
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6-minute read
Le rêve brisé d’exploiter un camion-restaurant
The benefits for consumers and workers of liberalizing mobile food vending in Montreal.
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7-minute read
Viewpoint – Food-Truck Freedom for Montreal
Since 2013, there has been a loosening of the decades-long ban on mobile food vending in Montreal. Such steps place Montreal squarely within a wider movement throughout North America to allow greater entrepreneurship at the municipal level. In spite of this positive step, however, the large potential benefits to both consumers and workers are being undermined by heavy regulation. This Viewpoint highlights those benefits and explains how the regulatory framework surrounding mobile food vendors in Montreal remains much too constraining.
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4-minute read
Consumers should welcome the end to a four wireless players policy
Publication of a Research Paper analyzing various aspects of the Canadian telecommunications industry related to competition.