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search frictions, firms price-to-market, with implications for the design of monetary policy. Country-specific shocks … generate deviations from the law of one price for traded goods which monetary policy acts to stabilize by influencing firm … markups. However, stabilizing law of one price deviations results in greater fluctuations in output. …
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We provide a decomposition of nominal yields into real yields, expectations of future inflation and inflation risk premiums when real bonds or inflation swaps are unavailable or unreliable due to their relative illiquidity. We combine nominal yields with surveys of inflation forecasts within a...
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Information on the allocation and pricing of over-the-counter (OTC) markets is scarce. Furfine (1999) pioneered an algorithm that provides transaction-level data on the OTC interbank lending market. The veracity of the data identified, however, is not well established. Using permutation methods,...
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' funding advantage in Canada, and on the extent to which market discipline exists across different securities issued by the … Canadian banks. The banking sector in Canada provides a unique setting in which to examine market discipline along with the … prospects of proposed reforms, because Canada has no history of government bailouts. Our results suggest that large banks likely …
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, the neutral rate in Canada is determined by the longer-run forces that influence savings and investment in both the …
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The dramatic rise in Canada's average house price to average rent ratio has induced some commentators to argue that a …
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In Canada, targeting the inflation rate was intended as a temporary measure on a journey to price-level stability, but …
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lower bound of the corridor. However, by targeting a slightly higher level, the Bank of Canada could be 95% certain that the …
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expansionary and a contractionary monetary policy episode in Canada. Our identification takes advantage of the fact that the … interest rates of short-term fixed-rate mortgages (the dominant product in Canada's mortgage market) have to be reset according …
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