The work of Boadway and Hayashi (2001) and Smart (2007) tends to confirm the hypothesis that provinces who are the beneficiaries of equalization payments adopt strategic behaviours that reduce their tax capacity and thus increase these payments. In this study, we analyze the impact that a new...

À cause du cadre réglementaire et des politiques gouvernementales qui s'appliquent à la demande d'énergie, celle-ci a reçu beaucoup d'attention de la part des développeurs de modèles. Dans cet article, je présente un modèle intégré de la demande totale d'énergie. Les principaux...

Once a hydroelectric power site is operational, its production is constrained both by the available hydraulic energy that drives the turbines and by the installed capacity that limits the pace at which hydraulic energy can be turned into electricity. Different costs are associated with these two...

A public-choice model is presented in order to explain the fact that publicly owned electricity utilities rarely price at marginal cost in practice. It is shown that if (1) government revenues are raised through proportional taxes, (2) median income is less than mean income, and (3) the share of...

This paper presents the first systematic empirical evidence on transfer pricing in multinational corporations. The authors examine the Canadian petroleum industry, which is dominated by foreign multinationals. The data cover the period 1974-84 and allow the authors to analyze the allegation of...

While the price of elasticity is higher in the North-Eastern United States than in the Quebec industrial market, the Quebec government is maintaining its traditional policy of promoting the establishment of electricity-intensive industries by providing them with electricity at a price below the...

Although the increase in future demand for electricity is expected to be smaller than that in recent years, Hydro-Quebec has undertaken to develop certain projects in anticipation of the expected future demand. Among these projects is the Great Whale project. Environmental concerns, the presence...