Winners

Year Winner
2009 Michael Baker (University of Toronto and National Bureau of Economic Research), Jonathan Gruber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and National Bureau of Economic Research), and Kevin Milligan (University of British Columbia and National Bureau of Economic Research)
"Universal Childcare, Maternal Labor Supply and Family Wellbeing", The University of Chicago, 2008
2008 Gérard Bélanger (Université de Laval)
"L’économie du Québec, Mythes et Réalité", Editions Varia, Montréal, 2007
[Summary of the winning submission]
[Le résumé de la soumission gagnante]
2007 David Green (University of British Columbia) and
Jonathan Kesselman (Simon Fraser University)
"Dimensions of Inequality in Canada" UBC Press, 2006
2006 Emmanuel Saez (University of California at Berkeley) and
Michael Veall (McMaster University)
for their research paper "The Evolution of High Incomes in Northern America: Lessons from Canadian Evidence",
American Economic Review 95(3) 2005, 831-849
2005 Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia)
for his contributions to "Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice" (Geneva: ILO, 2004)
and to "Producer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice" (Washington: IMF, 2004)
2004 Brian Copeland, University of British Columbia
Scott Taylor, University of Calgary
“Trade and the Environment: Theory and Evidence”
2003 Paul Collins , Strikeman Elliot
Edward Iacobucci & Michael Trebilock, University of Toronto
Ralph Winter, University of British Columbia
“The Law and Economics of Canadian Competition Policy ”
2002 Jack Mintz , C.D. Howe Institute
“Most Favoured Nation: Building a Framework for Smart Economic Policy”
Brookings Institution
[Summary of the winning submission]
2001 Frances Woolley, Carleton University
Carole Vincent, Institute for Research on Public Policy
“Taxing Canadian Families: What's Fair, What's Not ”
[Summary of the winning submission]
2000 Ronald Kneebone, University of Calgary
Kenneth McKenzie, University of Calgary
“Past (In)Discretions: Canadian Federal and Provincial Policy”
[Summary of the winning submission]
1999 John Helliwell, University of British Columbia
“How Much Do National Borders Matter?”
Brookings Institution
[Summary of the winning submission]
1998 Jonathan Kesselman, University of British
Columbia
“General Payroll Taxes: Economics, Politics and Design”
Canadian Tax Foundation
[Summary of the winning submission]
1997 Pierre Fortin, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
“The Great Canadian Slump”
Canadian Journal of Economics

and

Edward Greenspon, The Globe and Mail
Anthony Wilson-Smith, MacLean’s Magazine
“Double Vision ­ The Inside Story of the Liberals in Power”
Doubleday
[Summary of the winning submission]

1996 Bob Young,University of Western Ontario
“The Secession of Quebec and the Future of Canada”
McGill-Queen’s University Press
with the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen’s 
University
[Summary of the winning submission]
1995 Tom Courchene, Queen's University
“Social Canada in the Millenium”
C.D. Howe Institute
[Summary of the winning submission]
1994 Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia, 
and David Card, University of British Columbia
“A Comparative Analysis of Unemployment in Canada and the United States”

and

David Laidler, University of  Western Ontario,
and William Robson, CD Howe Institute
“The Great Canadian Disinflation”
C.D. Howe Institute
[Summary of the winning submission]