JAMES P. FEEHAN
Honorary Research Professor
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Recent Publications:
“Canada’s Equalization Program: Political Debates and
Opportunities for Reform,” IRPP Insight No. 30, January 2020. click
here.
“The long-run price elasticity of
residential demand for electricity: Results from a natural experiment,” Utilities Policy 51, February 2018.
“Optimal rationing of productive public
services under tax competition,”(with Mutsumi Matsumoto) Economics
Letters, Vol 151, February 2017.
“Connecting to the North American Grid:
Time for Newfoundland to Discontinue inefficient Price Regulation,”Canadian Public Policy-Analyse de Politiques,
December 2016.
“A Harvard Economist’s Advice to
Smallwood: A Letter from Raymond Vernon, 1964,” (Introduction to document, with
Jeff Webb) Newfoundland and Labrador
Studies, 31(2), Fall 2016.
“The Newfoundland Connection to a Nobel
Laureate,” Newfoundland Quarterly,
Vol.109 (3), Winter 2016.
“Canada’s Equalization Formula: Peering
inside the Black Box …and Beyond,” School
of Public Policy Research Papers, Vol. 7, Issue 24 (University of Calgary),
September 2014. click here.
“The Challenge of the Lower Churchill,”
chapter 12 in A. Marland and M. Kerby, editors, First Among Unequals:
The Premier, Politics, and Policy in Newfoundland and Labrador
(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014).
“Electricity Market Integration: Newfoundland
Chooses Monopoly and Protectionism,” AIMS
Commentary, November
2013. click here.
“Newfoundland’s Electricity Options:
Making the Right Choice Requires an Efficient Pricing Regime,” C. D. Howe Institute e-brief, January
2012. click
here.
“Smallwood, Churchill Falls, and the Power
Corridor through Quebec,”Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic
Region, 2011. click here.
“Capital-tax financing and scale economies in public input production,”(with Mutsumi Matsumoto) Regional Economics and
Urban Science, May 2010. click here.
“The Churchill Falls contract and why
Newfoundlanders can’t get over it,”(with Melvin Baker)
Policy Options, Vol.31, Institute for Research on Public Policy,
September, 2010.
“The Empirical Impact of Public
Infrastructure on the Japanese Economy,”(with
Christopher Annala and Raymond Batina)
Japanese Economic Review, December
2008.
“Labor and Capital Taxation with Public
Inputs as Common Property,” (with Raymond Batina) Public
Finance Review, September 2007. click here.
“The renewal clause in the Churchill Falls
Contract,” (with Melvin Baker) Dalhousie Law Journal, Spring 2007, click here.
(For a more complete list of
scholarly publications and contributions, click here)
Dr. James
Feehan
Department
of Economics
Room
A-2064 (Arts and Administration Building)
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St.
John's, NL
Canada A1C 5S7
Tel. (709) 864-3003 office
e-mail: feehan@mun.ca