The authors say Quebec’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must face some key facts. First, the possibilities of an effective reduction of GHG emissions through the substitution of one energy source for another are limited in Quebec. Second, Quebec’s era of low-cost...

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...

Canada has ratified the Kyoto Protocol while the United States, its main trading partner, have not. A major concern of Canadian industrial producers is the negative impact on competitiveness of progorams designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). To alleviate this concern, the Government...

We develop a model in which two firms from different countries compete on each other domestic market. Each firms is jointly owned by the residents and the government of its country. The extent of the government's stake in the public enterprise is endogenous and it determines the weight given the...

We analyse how the wholesale electricity market deregulation could modify exchanges between three Canadian regions (Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick) and two U.S. regions (New York and New England), which were already trading electricity before the regulatory change took place in 1997. We find...

Le Canada, comme beaucoup de pays industrialisés, présente des analyses annuelles de l'évolution de l'intensité énergétique de l'économie et de ses principaux secteurs. L'intensité énergétique est le ratio de la consommation d'énergie par rapport au niveau d'activité économique. Il...

L'évolution de la consommation d'énergie entre deux périodes peut être décomposée de manière à souligner les rôles joués par le niveau d'activité économique, le changement structurel à l'intérieur du secteur étudié, les conditions climatiques et l'efficacité énergétique. Nous...