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To complement its existing set of tools to analyze and forecast developments in the global economy, the Bank of Canada recently developed a version of the Global Projection Model (GPM) jointly with staff at the International Monetary Fund. The GPM is a highly stylized quarterly projection model...
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The Bank of Canada's version of the Global Economy Model (BoC-GEM) is derived from the model created at the International Monetary Fund by Douglas Laxton (IMF) and Paolo Pesenti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York and National Bureau of Economic Research). The GEM is a dynamic stochastic...
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The objective of this paper is to propose an early warning system that can predict the likelihood of the occurrence of financial stress events within a given period of time. To achieve this goal, the signal extraction approach proposed by Kaminsky, Lizondo and Reinhart (1998) is used to monitor...
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The early work of Tobin (1958) showed that portfolio allocation decisions can be reduced to a two stage process: first decide the relative allocation of assets across the risky assets, and second decide how to divide total wealth between the risky assets and the safe asset. This so called...
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Asymmetric shocks are common in markets; securities' payoffs are not normally distributed and exhibit skewness. This paper studies the portfolio holdings of heterogeneous agents with preferences over mean, variance and skewness, and derives equilibrium prices. A three funds separation theorem...
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There is currently a policy debate on potential refinements to monetary policy regimes in countries with low and stable inflation such as the U.S. and Canada. For example, in Canada, a systematic review of the current inflation targeting framework is underway. An issue that has generally...
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investment, (iii) a role for financial wealth in household consumption, and (iv) rule-of-thumb price and wage setters. These new …
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underlying components, the degree of monetary non-neutrality is ultimately the result of relative price effects at the sectoral … level. We provide evidence of considerable heterogeneity in sectoral price responses by introducing time variation in a … monetary policy shock and the price dispersion diminishes. We link these empirical findings to a multi-sector DSGE model and …
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. In particular, the Bank of Canada's regional offices surveyed 170 Canadian firms for their views on price dynamics. The … authors find that the most important motivators of price changes are price changes by competitors, changes in domestic input …
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