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Alberta Investment Management Corporation: An Examination of a Corporatization Project: Preliminary Assessment
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The study examines the decision in 2006–2007 by the Alberta government to establish an arms-length, board-governed, investment management corporation expressly to improve investment performance and build local expertise in investment management. The comparison of the investment returns achieved...
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An experimental investigation of the impact of fat taxes: Price effects, food stigma, and information effects on economic instruments to improve dietary health
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This thesis investigates how a tax and warning label on less healthy snack food products may affect consumer behaviour when the imposition of the tax is a source of consumer information. A survey that included choice experiments was implemented in supermarkets. Participants were asked to choose...
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Further Reflections on Alberta's Capital Spending and Finance: Comments on the Dodge Report to the Government of Alberta, October 2015
Download2015-12-01
David Dodge, former Governor of the Bank of Canada, submitted a report to the Government of Alberta in October 2015 on provincial capital spending and finance. That report was incorporated into the October budget documents. There are many valuable insights and recommendations in the report....