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Natural Monopoly and Distorted Competition: Evidence from Unbundling Fiber-Optic Networks

Minamihashi, Naoaki - Bank of Canada - 2012

Can regulation solve problems arising from a natural monopoly? This paper analyzes whether “unbundling,” referring to regulations that enforce sharing of natural monopolistic infrastructure, prevents entrants from building new infrastructure. It models and estimates a dynamic entry game to...

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Measuring Potential Output at the Bank of Canada: The Extended Multivariate Filter and the Integrated Framework

Pichette, Lise; St-Amant, Pierre; Tomlin, Ben; Anoma, Karine - Bank of Canada - 2015

), provides a separate analysis of trend labour input and trend labour productivity, and in doing so accounts for more long …

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Stability versus Flexibility: The Role of Temporary Employment in Labour Adjustment

Cao, Shutao; Leung, Danny - Bank of Canada - 2010

In Canada, temporary workers account for 14 per cent of jobs in the non-farm business sector, are present in a range of industries, and account for 40 per cent of the total job reallocation. Yet most models of job reallocation abstract from temporary workers. This paper evaluates the importance...

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Lagging Productivity Growth in the Service Sector: Mismeasurement, Mismanagement or Misinformation?

Maclean, Dinah - Bank of Canada - 1997

While the service sector has been growing rapidly as a share of total output, aggregate productivity growth has … service sector productivity growth. Measurement problems appear to be greater in services than in goods, and a detailed … analysis of output measurement in the three service industries experiencing the lowest productivity growth suggests that …

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Relative Prices, Trading Gains, and Real GDI: The Case of Canada

Zheng, Yi - Bank of Canada - 2009

Treating imports as intermediate inputs to domestic production, the author adopts the translog function approach to model real gross domestic income (GDI) in Canada over the 1961-2006 period. She explores the role of price ratios, such as terms of trade and the real effective exchange rate, in...

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Le PIB potentiel des États-Unis et ses déterminants : la productivité de la main-d'oeuvre et le taux d'activité

Lalonde, René - Bank of Canada - 1998

explicitly related to the trend of labour force productivity and of the participation rate. These two variables have been … of labour force productivity and the participation rate. Furthermore, since 1995, the growth rate of potential GDP has … been clearly above its historical average because of an increase in the trend of productivity and, to a lesser degree, in …

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Restructuring in the Canadian Economy: A Survey of Firms

Kwan, Carolyn C. - Bank of Canada - 2002

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Contribution of ICT Use to Output and Labour-Productivity Growth in Canada

Khan, Hashmat; Santos, Marjorie - Bank of Canada - 2002

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Une analyse empirique du lien entre la productivité et le taux de change réel Canada-É-U

Dupuis, David; Tessier, David - Bank of Canada - 2000

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Non-Linearities in the Output-Inflation Relationship: Some Empirical Results for Canada

Dupasquier, Chantal; Ricketts, Nicholas - Bank of Canada - 1998

This paper analyzes the short-run dynamic process of inflation in Canada and examines whether a systematic variation in the relationship between inflation and output can be detected over time. In the theoretical literature, different models of price-setting behaviour predict that the slope of...

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