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International Capital Flows and Bond Risk Premia

Sierra, Jesus - Bank of Canada - 2010

This paper studies the impact of international capital flows on asset prices through risk premia. We investigate …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527619

Prospects for global current account rebalancing

Beaton, Kimberly; De Resende, Carlos; Lalonde, René; … - 2010

The authors use the Bank of Canada's version of the Global Economy Model, a multi-country, multi-sector dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with an active banking system (the BoC-GEM-FIN), to study the evolution of global current account balances following the recent global financial...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003981363

External Stability, Real Exchange Rate Adjustment and the Exchange Rate Regime in Emerging-Market Economies

Gervais, Olivier; Schembri, Lawrence; Suchanek, Lena - Bank of Canada - 2011

In emerging-market economies, real exchange rate adjustment is critical for maintaining a sustainable current account position and thereby for helping to reduce macroeconomic and financial instability. The authors examine empirically two related hypotheses: (i) that real exchange rate...

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Determinants of Financial Stress and Recovery during the Great Recession

Aizenman, Joshua; Pasricha, Gurnain Kaur - Bank of Canada - 2011

In this paper, we explore the link between stress in the domestic financial sector and the capital flight faced by countries in the 2008-9 global crisis. Both the timing of emergence of internal financial stress in developing economies, and the size of the peak-trough declines in the stock price...

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Effectiveness of Capital Controls in India: Evidence from the Offshore NDF Market

Hutchison, Michael; Pasricha, Gurnain Kaur; Singh, Nirvikar - Bank of Canada - 2011

This paper examines the effectiveness of international capital controls in India over time by analyzing daily return differentials in the non-deliverable forward (NDF) markets using the self-exciting threshold autoregressive (SETAR) methodology. We begin with a detailed narrative on the...

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Canada's Pioneering Experience with a Flexible Exchange Rate in the 1950s: (Hard) Lessons Learned for Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy

Bordo, Michael; Dib, Ali; Schembri, Lawrence - Bank of Canada - 2007

This paper revisits Canada's pioneering experience with floating exchange rate over the period 1950–1962. It examines whether the floating rate was the best option for Canada in the 1950s by developing and estimating a New Keynesian small open economy model of the Canadian economy. The model...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673297

Endogenous Borrowing Constraints and Consumption Volatility in a Small Open Economy

Resende, Carlos de - Bank of Canada - 2006

Consumption volatility relative to output volatility is consistently higher in emerging economies than in developed economies. One natural explanation is that emerging economies are more likely to face borrowing constraints and, as a consequence, find it more difficult to use international...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673362

A Wave of Protectionism? An Analysis of Economic and Political Considerations

Maier, Philipp - Bank of Canada - 2008

calls from some U.S. policymakers for tariffs on imports from China has sparked fears that this could trigger a world …-wide surge in protectionism. This study evaluates the risk of protectionism, considering two dimensions: first, the economic … is therefore rightly viewed as an important risk. …

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The Bank of Canada's Version of the Global Economy Model (BoC-GEM)

Lalonde, Rene; Muir, Dirk - Bank of Canada - 2007

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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A Structural VAR Approach to the Intertemporal Model of the Current Account

Kano, Takashi - Bank of Canada - 2003

(SVAR). To test the CERs, the author develops identification schemes of the SVAR that exploit the orthogonality of the world …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005808320

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