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Greater Transparency in Monetary Policy: Impact on Financial Markets
Muller, P.; Zelmer, M. - Bank of Canada - 1999
Measures have been taken by the Bank of Canada to increase the transparency of Canadian monetary policy. This paper … information set. The market’s response to releases of the Bank of Canada’s Monetary Policy Report and to changes in the Bank …’s operating band for the overnight interest rate is examined. The empirical results suggest that the Bank’s efforts at increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005808258
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Heterogeneous beliefs and housing-market boom-bust cycles in a small open economy
Tomura, Hajime - 2009
This paper introduces heterogeneous beliefs among households in a small open economy model for the Canadian economy. The model suggests that simultaneous boom-bust cycles in house prices, output, investment, consumption and hours worked emerge when credit-constrained mortgage borrowers expect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003852849
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Resurrecting the role of real money balance effects
Dorich, José - 2009
I present a structural econometric analysis supporting the hypothesis that money is still relevant for shaping inflation and output dynamics in the United States. In particular, I find that real money balance effects are quantitatively important, although smaller than they used to be in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933293
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Risk premium shocks and the zero bound on nominal interest rates
Amano, Robert A.; Shukayev, Malik - 2009
There appears to be a disconnect between the importance of the zero bound on nominal interest rates in the real-world and predictions from quantitative DSGE models. Recent economic events have reinforced the relevance of the zero bound for monetary policy whereas quantitative models suggest that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933335
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Exchange rate pass-through and monetary policy : how strong is the link?
Murchison, Stephen - 2009
due to a change in the parameters of the central bank's policy rule. Evidence is presented for Canada indicating that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933342
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Real effects of price stability with endogenous nominal indexation
Meh, Césaire Assah; Quadrini, Vincenzo; Terajima, Yaz - 2009
We study a model with repeated moral hazard where financial contracts are not fully indexed to inflation because nominal prices are observed with delay as in Jovanovic & Ueda (1997). More constrained firms sign contracts that are less indexed to the nominal price and, as a result, their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003852858
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Consumption, housing collateral, and the Canadian business cycle
Christensen, Ian; Corrigan, Paul; Mendicino, Caterina; … - 2009
Using Bayesian methods, we estimate a small open economy model in which consumers face limits to credit determined by the value of their housing stock. The purpose of this paper is to quantify the role of collateralized household debt in the Canadian business cycle. Our findings show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933334
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Search-for-Yield in Canadian Fixed-Income Mutual Funds and Monetary Policy
Gungor, Sermin; Sierra, Jesus - Bank of Canada - 2014
This paper investigates the effects of monetary policy on the risk-taking behavior of fixed-income mutual funds in Canada. We consider different measures of the stance of monetary policy and investigate active variation in mutual funds’ risk exposure in response to monetary policy. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010849943
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Why Do Emerging Markets Liberalize Capital Outflow Controls? Fiscal versus Net Capital Flow Concerns
Aizenman, Joshua; Pasricha, Gurnain - Bank of Canada - 2013
In this paper, we provide empirical evidence on the factors that motivated emerging economies to change their capital outflow controls in recent decades. Liberalization of capital outflow controls can allow emerging-market economies (EMEs) to reduce net capital inflow (NKI) pressures, but may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010849944