The Government of Canada first issued real return bonds, commonly referred to as index-linked bonds in the finance literature, in December 1991. This paper empirically examines the holding period returns of real return bonds between 1992 and 2003. This study finds that the real return bond...

New federal legislation regulating financial institutions was introduced into Parliament as Bill C38 and a similar bill, C8, was reintroduced and passed into law in the spring of 2001. This paper is a critical analysis of the new legislation. The legislation does not address many of the...

This paper analyzes the performance and balance-sheet characteristics of banks in post-war Lebanon for the years 1993 to 2000. Although we find that Lebanese banks are profitable, most of them had accounting return on assets (ROA) greater than one percent over most of our test period, they are...

New federal legislation regulating financial institutions was introduced into Parliament as Bill C38 and a similar bill, Bill C8, was reintroduced and passed into law in the spring of 2001. This paper is a critical analysis of the new legislation. The legislation does not address many of the...