in Canada established the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT). This paper takes stock of the achievements and shortcomings … of the AIT. Because the internal barriers to trade being addressed by the AIT are not unique to Canada, the agreement …

, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States …

mechanisms in Canada and the United States and also examines the effects of the unemployment insurance (UI) system on labor … wage responses in Canada relative to the United States. Although overall UI generosity has increased aggregate unemployment … persistence in Canada, the endogenous component of UI has affected unemployment persistence only marginally. The lower degree of …

This paper documents the extent of financial linkages between Canada and the United States and explores the impact of … changes in U.S. financial conditions on financial conditions and real economic activity in Canada. It shows that close to a … autoregressions establishes that a tightening in U.S. financial conditions has significant implications for real activity in Canada …

To understand better Canada''s smooth reallocation of labor in response to the recent commodity price boom, but … seemingly poor productivity performance, this paper examines job and firm dynamics in Canada relative to the United States …. Overall, it finds that while Canada''s labor market efficiency seems comparable to that of the United States, product market …

-prime mortgage financing is in its infancy in Canada, and further development of that sector (while avoiding the excesses that beset …

One of the pioneers of inflation targeting (IT), the Bank of Canada is now considering a possibility of switching to …, bringing the price level back to a predetermined path. This paper draws attention to the fact that the price level in Canada … major driver of actual inflation in Canada, which makes it easier to keep inflation close to the target without large output …

This paper measures the size of the stock of intangible capital in Canada using newly released data on the market value …

Canada. It finds that investment in intangible capital by 2002 is almost as large as the investment in physical capital. This …