Browse Our Research 

This paper argues that additional taxes are entirely appropriate for major cities and estimates the potential revenue that some of these taxes could generate in eight Canadian cities – Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal, and Halifax.
Find out more »

What new financial instruments and strategies could municipalities rely on to take advantage of today’s low interest rates? What can we learn from municipal lending markets elsewhere?
Find out more »

This presentation was delivered by Dr. Enid Slack to the Caribbean Valuation and Construction Conference in St. Lucia.
Find out more »

A presentation given by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the Caribbean Valuation and Construction Conference in St. Lucia.
Find out more »

IMFG invites applications for two one-year graduate fellowships in municipal finance and governance for the 2017-2018 academic year. The fellowships will begin on September 1, 2017 and each offer $5,000 in financial support.
Find out more »

The Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG), within the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, invites applications for a one-year IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance. Research should be pertinent to IMFG’s focus on the finance and governance issues faced by large cities and city-regions in Canada and around the world.
Find out more »

Toronto is known for having been a prosperous and successful city in the decades after the Second World War, and the postwar period has come to be seen as something of a Golden Age for the city. What role did Toronto’s postwar municipal finances play in making the city the success that it was?
Find out more »

This presentation was delivered to the Beijing Forum, Peking University, Beijing.
Find out more »