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A re-examination of the link between real exchange rates and real interest rate differentials

Hoffmann, Mathias; MacDonald, Ronald - 2003

The real exchange rate - real interest rate (RERI) relationship is central to most open economy macroeconomic models. However, empirical support for the relationship, especially when cointegrationbased methods are used, is rather weak. In this paper we reinvestigate the RERI relationship using...

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The 2025 trade war : dynamic impacts across U.S. states and the global economy

Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés; Teti, Feodora; Ulate, Mauricio; … - 2025 - First version: April 22, 2025, this version: September 30, 2025

- like Canada, Mexico, and Ireland - suffer the largest real income losses. …

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Earnings responses to social security contributions : evidence from older workers in Canada

Lavecchia, Adam; Stutely, James - 2025

This paper documents sharp bunching in third-party reported employment earnings at a basic exemption for social security contributions among older workers. Beginning in 2012, workers age 60-64 who were receiving a public pension were required to make social security contributions equal to 9.9...

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The employment effects of a pandemic wage subsidy

Smart, Michael; Kronberg, Matthew; Lesica, Josip; … - 2023

We estimate the causal effects of a pandemic-era wage subsidy program in Canada on job losses and business closures …

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Is the price right? : the role of morals, ideology, and tradeoff thinking in explaining reactions to price surges

Elías, Julio; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2022

Price surges often generate social disapproval and requests for regulation and price controls, but these interventions may cause inefficiencies and shortages. To study how individuals perceive and reason about sudden price increases for different products under different policy regimes, we...

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Nudging the nudger : a field experiment on the effect of performance feedback to service agents on increasing organ donor registrations

House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mažar, Nina - 2022

We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) in a Canadian government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected their subsequent organ donor registration rates....

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Canada's carbon price floor

Parry, Ian W. H.; Mylonas, Victor - 2018

Canada in 2018, with increasing stringency over time to reduce emissions. Canadian provinces and territories have the … price by itself appears well short of what will be needed by 2030 for Canada's Paris Agreement pledge. …

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Moral Nimby-ism? : understanding societal support for monetary compensation to plasma donors in Canada

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2018

plasma donors in Australia and the United States than in Canada, but the differences were small, suggesting a weak role for …, although most of the plasma in Canada does come from compensated American donors. Among those in favor of legalizing … compensation for donors (in Canada as well as in Australia), the highest-rated motive was to guarantee a higher domestic supply …

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Pension benefit insurance and pension plan portfolio choice

Crossley, Thomas F.; Jametti, Mario - 2008

Pension benefit guarantee policies have been introduced in several countries to protect private pension plan members from the loss of income that would occur if a plan was underfunded when the sponsoring firm terminates a plan. Most of these public insurance schemes face financial difficulty and...

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Real wage chronologies

Christofidēs, Loizos N. (contributor); … - 2007

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