This document builds a narrative dataset of all legislated tax changes for Canada for the years 1961-2014. We use various budget documents like the budget speech, budget plan, budget papers, and economic and fiscal updates to document all implemented tax changes. We record the description, size,...

This paper examines the macroeconomic effects of government spending shocks in Canada for the period of 1949 - 2012. We use the narrative record, mostly the budget speech, to identify the size, timing, and principal motivation for all planned major government spending changes. To achieve...

In this paper we study the macroeconomic effects of changes in federal taxes for the Canadian economy for the time period 1961:1 - 2014:4. We employ the narrative methodology of Romer and Romer (2010) and Cloyne (2013) to identify exogenous changes in federal taxes. In particular, we study, in...