Queen's Policy Studies Series

Canada: The State of the Federation, 2011

Canada: The State of the Federation 2006/07

by John R. Allan, Thomas J. Courchene, and Christian Leuprecht

Published 28 November 2008

Edited by Thomas Courchene, this collection brings together distinguished scholars who reflect upon and extend Mundell's contributions - from the development of the Euro and the currency union issue in general - to factor mobility and free trade. The authors also discuss the "Mundell-Fleming" model and its policy implications as well as the evolution of global financial and trading systems. Mundell's Nobel Prize lecture as well as his reflections on the evolution of open-economy macroeconomics are included in this collection. Contributors include Russell Boyer (Western), Mick Devereux (UBC), Pierre Fortin (UQAM), Herbert Grubel (Fraser Institute), Richard Harris (Simon Fraser), John McCallum (Royal Bank), Ronald McKinnon (Stanford), James Melvin (Waterloo), Sylvia Ostry (Toronto), Alexandre Swoboda (Geneva and IMF), George von Furstenberg (Indiana), Rob Waschik (Waterloo) and, of course, Robert Mundell (Columbia and Siena).

Policy Frameworks for a Knowledge Economy

by Thomas J. Courchene

Published 5 April 1996

Continuing the focus of earlier volumes on ways in which economic growth, globalization, and nationalism are being forged and reshaped by growth in the knowledge-based economy, this fourth volume of the Bell Canada Papers on Economic and Public Policy explores policy frameworks for a knowledge economy from a variety of perspectives.