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In this paper two shocks are analysed using Canadian data: a money-supply shock ("M-shock") and an interest-rate shock …
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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...
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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 … the econometric estimates for monetary policy analysis. First, by including real money balance effects into the standard …
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productivity, investment-specific productivity, government spending and money demand shocks, are unable to push nominal bond rates …
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Several authors have presented reduced-form evidence suggesting that the degree of exchange rate pass-through to the consumer price index has declined in Canada since the early 1980s and is currently close to zero. Taylor (2000) suggests that this phenomenon, which has been observed for several...
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Using data from a 2004 survey of the Canadian public, the authors study the role of convenience and risk in consumers' use of cash relative to debit and credit cards. The authors find that consumers who perceive debit cards and credit cards to be more convenient and less risky than cash use them...
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We measure consumers’ use of cash by harmonizing payment diary surveys from seven countries. The seven diary surveys were conducted in 2009 (Canada), 2010 (Australia), 2011 (Austria, France, Germany and the Netherlands), and 2012 (the United States). Our paper finds cross-country differences -...
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Despite various payment innovations, today, cash is still heavily used to pay for low-value purchases. This paper develops a simulation model to test whether standard implications of the theory on cash management and payment choices can explain the use of payment instruments by transaction size....
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The authors review recent developments in retail payments in Canada and elsewhere, with a focus on e-money products … with regard to e-money. …
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