This study compares the parameters of income taxation in Quebec with those prevailing elsewhere in the Canadian federation and in the G7 countries. After demonstrating the government of Québec's greater dependence on income taxes, the authors use a historical analysis to show that there has...

This paper follows on Therrien and Mohnen (2001). Here, we compare the innovation performance of manufacturing firms in Canada and four European countries - Germany, France, Ireland, and Spain - on the basis of an econometric model that identifies some of the determinants of the probability to...

This paper analyses the effect of a tax mix modification. More precisely, the authors assess the relevance of increasing consumption taxes and at the same time decreasing income taxes. Several arguments in favour of modifying the tax mix are analysed such as its impacts on savings, on labour...