During the 1990s, the lowest sustainable rate of unemployment (LSRU) in Canada declined from the 7.5-to-8% range to perhaps around 6%. Barring an international recession and excessive rigidity on the part of the central bank, Canada could achieve this 6% unemployment level within a few quarters....

This Memorial Lecture in honour of the late John Graham has three parts. First, it explains why Keynes criticized classical views about the business cycle in the 1930s, and how his ideas revolutionized the field and influenced macroeconomic policy until the mid-1960s. Second, the lecture...

The basis for central bank policy aimed at price stability is the view that the benefits from very low inflation are "large and permanent," and that the related unemployment costs are "small and temporary." I question this belief in three ways: first, I point out that the quantitative evidence...

This paper examines health-care spending projections when the interaction between end-of-life care expenditures and declining mortality is taken explicitly into account. Based on Quebec's historical public health-care spending data and mortality rates for 20 age groups over the period 1998 to...