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Inflation targets versus international monetary integration : a Canadian perspective
Laidler, David E. W. - 2002
,rather than exchange rate regimes and questions of policy credibility and political accountability are crucial. Canada's recent … performance are assessed. The most economically attractive among alternative monetary orders, the adoption by Canada of the US … politically attainable. Intermediate arrangements are unattractive and clearly inferior to Canada's current monetary order. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541166
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Understanding firms' inflation expectations using the Bank of Canada's Business Outlook Survey
Richards, Simon; Verstraete, Matthieu - 2016
policy. We study how firms form their inflation expectations using quarterly firm-level data from the Bank of Canada … structural shift specifications suggests that inflation expectations in Canada have drifted downward since the Great Recession …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540769
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Understanding monetary policy and its effects : evidence from Canadian firms using the business outlook survey
Verstraete, Matthieu; Suchanek, Lena - 2018
real time in Canada. Stronger survey results lead to a significantly higher policy rate over the period of study (2001 …. We use data from the Bank of Canada’s quarterly Business Outlook Survey. Given our short sample, we however focus on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011899117
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Electricity use as a real time indicator of the economic burden of the COVID-19-related lockdown : evidence from Switzerland
Janzen, Benedikt; Radulescu, Doina - 2020
We employ hourly electricity load data for Switzerland as a real time indicator of the economic effects of the lockdown following the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Our findings reveal that following the drastic lockdown, overall electricity use decreased by 4 per cent, with a reduction of even 11.3 per...
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Findings of the signal approach for financial monitoring in Kazakhstan
Abberger, Klaus; Nierhaus, Wolfgang; Shaikh, Shynar - 2009
This study concentrates on the signal approach for Kazakhstan. It focuses on the properties of individual indicators prior to observed currency crises. The indicators are used to build composite indicators. An advanced approach uses principal components analysis for the construction of composite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883094
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Towards a macroprudential surveillance and remedial policy formulation system for monitoring financial crisis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2009
Several developing economies witnessed a large number of systemic financial and currency crises since the 1980s which resulted in severe economic, social, and political problems. The devastating impact of the 1982 and 1994-95 Mexican crises, the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, the 1998 Russian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887495
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Early warning system for economic and financial risks in Kazakhstan
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Dlugosch, Dennis; Kolb, Benedikt - 2009
This paper proposes a macro-prudential financial soundness analysis that can be used by most developing and transformation countries with or without crisis experience as well as by developed countries with limited data. The objective is to detect economic and financial sector vulnerability,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897420
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A critique of the literature on the US financial debt crisis
Stein, Jerome L. - 2010
A healthy financial system encourages the efficient allocation of capital and risk. The collapse of the house price bubble led to the financial crisis that started in 2007. There is a large empirical literature concerning the relation between asset price bubbles and financial crises. I evaluate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936616
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Banking crises and crisis dating : theory and evidence
Boyd, John H.; De Nicolò, Gianni; Loukoianova, Elena - 2010
We formulate a simple theoretical model of a banking industry that we use to identify and construct theory-based measures of systemic bank shocks (SBS). These measures differ from "banking crisis" (BC) indicators employed in many empirical studies, which are constructed using primarily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003994497
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Does the Euro-zone diverge? : a stress indicator for analyzing trends and cycles in real GDP and inflation
Flaig, Gebhard (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496544