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1. The Investment Outlook for the Canadian and US Oil and Gas Sectors: Evidence from Financial Metrics

   Canada’s oil and gas industry has long been a driver of the country’s economic growth. Hence, the outlook for the industry’s future profitability is an important determinant of capital investment rates and employment trends for the industry and the ...

2. An International Comparison of Capital Expenditures

   Capital investment contributes to economic growth and higher standards of living through its link to increased labour productivity and technological change. The growth rate of overall capital expenditures in Canada slowed substantially from 2005 ...

3. Industry-Level Private Sector Capital Expenditures in Canada: 1990-2019

   Recent concerns about Canada’s industrial competitiveness compared to that in other developed countries, particularly the US, have focused on declines in private sector capital expenditures, especially in asset categories such as machinery and ...

4. Capital Investment in Canada’s Provinces: A Provincial Report

   Previous research by the Fraser Institute has documented a substantial decline in capital investment after 2014. The decline was especially marked for business investment and, within that category, for machinery and equipment and intellectual property ...

5. Changes in the Affordability of Housing in Canadian and American Cities, 2006–2016

   By bringing together workers, capital, businesses, and ideas in a compact geographic market, cities promote improved productivity performance, and thereby faster economic growth and higher real incomes for workers. The affordability of housing in a city ...

6. Reducing the Work Week Through Improved Productivity

   Increased leisure time is an important contributor to a higher standard of living for Canadians. Obviously, so is increased monetary income which allows Canadians to buy more goods and services. Higher real (inflation adjusted) workplace ...

7. Private Sector Capital Expenditures in Canada: An Industry-Level Analysis

   There has been much debate recently about Canada’s industrial competitiveness compared to other developed countries, particularly the US. In particular, concerns have been raised about recent declines in private sector capital expenditures, especially in ...

8. Canada’s upstream oil and gas sector—from the outpatient clinic to intensive care

   Appeared in the Fredericton Daily Gleaner, May 15, 2019 Canadian oil and gas companies face some major problems. Legal restrictions on the expansion of pipeline capacity have restricted exports of oil, shrinking profit margins. The subsequent price ...

9. Investment in the Canadian and U.S. Oil and Gas Sectors: A Tale of Diverging Fortunes

   The oil and gas industry is critically important to Canada’s economy. It accounts for almost 8 percent of Canada’s GDP, as well as for a significant share of the tax revenue collected by governments. The oil and gas sector is particularly important to the ...

10. Innovation in Canada: An Assessment of Recent Experience

    For decades, the Canadian federal government, as well as provincial governments, have implemented policies to promote commercial innovation. Notwithstanding, it is widely acknowledged that Canada’s innovation performance has been, and remains, relatively ...