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This report provides an overview of the Bringing the Neighbourhood Into Infill partnership project, its motivation, key priority messages, and next steps. It also presents the results of a…

This paper gives precision o the meaning of the term "moral hazard". It then analyses the implications which the phenomenon of moral hazard has on the welfare effects of public insurance…

Whether price and output stabilization schemes for primary commodities are likely to increase or decrease foreign exchange earnings from what they would be otherwise is a question of great importance…

Records of the university are created by records creators in departments and units, administered by records administrators (who can sometimes be the same person as the record creator) and kept in…

Heaney and Garman develop a linear valuation operator which prices risky income streams when arbitrage profits are precluded. Both study the case where the states of nature are presumed to follow a…

An insistent focus on extremism and radicalization with regard to current Islamist trends masks the failures of pluralist citizenship, amid a larger crisis of identity. Whether in Muslim-majority…

This paper provides a price-theoretic explanation of the well-known phenomenon that automobiles in developing countries depreciate less rapidly and are scrapped at a greater age than they are in…

Despite successful efforts made by the South African government to implement youthfriendly services in public clinics, none of these efforts have formally evaluated youth engagement as an integral…

Records management is based on core knowledge that is not specific to an institution. Organizations can address knowledge gaps among their records creators by creating training materials that are…

This study replicates and extends the study done by Phan, Sharma and Narayan (2015) using intraday data from two widely available exchange traded funds (SPY and USO), before and after the recent…

Erling Olsen grew up in Queensborough, and started gillnetting with his father when he was 7 or 8 years old. By the time he was 13, he had his own nets; by age 15, his own boat. He also worked in the…

The models of portfolio balance developed by Markowitz and Tobin explain the real world phenomenon of diversified asset holdings elegantly and properly. The models have been criticized, extended, and…

Northeastern British Columbia will experience future groundwater scarcity as a result of climate change and competing uses of water. The Government of British Columbia (BC) now regulates groundwater…

As individuals age they are more likely to develop medical conditions that may affect their ability to drive safety. British Columbia’s population is aging and the increasing proportion of older…

The design of community and built environments is integrally linked to independence, participation, and mobility for older adults. This capstone project reviews literature that explores the…

Given the projected increase in the international student population, there is a need to understand the existing state of career support services on university campuses in British Columbia (BC) and…

Recent research in Political Science and Psychology have uncovered how abstract sets of ideas, such as ideologies, can give rise to strong motivational forces. However, empirical work on identifying…

Since 2002, there has been an increase in the number of low-skill and low-wage temporary foreign workers in Canada. This study examines the employment standards challenges that these workers may…

This report collects and analyzes the available information on solar energy development in BC, including existing major barriers, costs and benefits, and externalities. The objective is to assess the…