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Using real time data, we show that the monetary policy rule in Canada is better described by a Taylor rule augmented … Canada’s quarterly Business Outlook Survey, we study the impact of monetary policy on firms’ expectations of sales and prices …
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relation to Canada’s fiscal structure. By fiscal structure we mean three distinct but interrelated fiscal dimensions of the …
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threat President Trump has made if the proposed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement is not passed by the U.S. Congress. We … the biggest loser; Canada is the biggest loser. Canada's welfare (per capita income) loss of 2.11 percent is nearly two …
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Transferring public benefits to people in no need of them appears to be a waste of public money. Thus, there seems to be support for a move away from universal child benefits and towards means testing. This study presents a critique of this overly-simplistic view and proposes a very simple...
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entry and exit of candidates and parties are analyzed for Canada from 1870 through 2015 first using an auto …
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This paper uses a new dataset on the universe of Canadian imports and tariffs between 1924 and 1936, disaggregated into 1697 goods originating in 112 countries, to analyse the impact on Canadian imports of interwar Canadian trade policy, including the 1932 Ottawa trade agreements. Rather than...
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We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our aim is to assess whether 'old' and 'new' EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether 'new' ones are assigned lower ratings, ceteris paribus, than 'old' ones. We...
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The harmonized European value-added tax (VAT) is anything but a modern consumption tax that taxes all goods and services at a uniform rate. As exemplified by an analysis of the Dutch version, some 60% of the base is exempted, that is, not taxed on output but on inputs. This has serious...
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This paper discusses lessons that other regions could learn from European Union's effort to implement carbon pricing through EU Emission Trading System (EU ETS). Our lessons are, first of all, that a cap-and-trade system like EU ETS is very helpful in guaranteeing a credible and binding...
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