This paper develops and tests a model of Japan’s household savings rate, based on the life-cycle hypothesis that the … primary motive for savings is provision for retirement. The paper shows that Japan’s high household savings rate in recent …

Household savings behavior in China during the past 30 years has been studied by using econometric models with the time …

The issue of productivity growth in Canada has received considerable attention reflecting its marked slowdown since the … in Canada, it is useful to decompose total factor productivity (TFP) into investment-specific productivity change (ISP …) and technologically neutral productivity change (TNP). The gap in manufacturing productivity growth between Canada and the …

The paper presents Canada’s report on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF …) recommendations for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT). Canada has strengthened its overall …

The spillovers from the U.S. economy to Canada have been assessed. It uses structural vector autoregressions to analyze … the role of financial linkages in real and financial spillovers from the United States to Canada. The implications of … Canada’s predictable price level have been analyzed. Innovative small and medium-size enterprises have significantly greater …

slowdown in large part has reflected the slowing in the United States economy, which has reduced growth in Canada’s exports and …