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document discusses the organization of the repurchase-agreement (repo) market in Canada. We define the repo contract, the … trading practices in Canada, risks in the repo market and repo regulation. A repo is a financial contract that resembles a …
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, central banks, government agencies, sovereign wealth funds and supranational institutions - such as the Government of Canada …-way CSAs. Our analysis indicates that, in the case of Canada, moving to a more symmetric CSA results in lower cost and risk for …
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Calculating the labour market indicator (LMI) at the provincial level provides useful insights into Canada's regional …. Recent values for the LMI show that labour markets have deteriorated notably in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and …
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Canada's international competitiveness has received increasing attention in recent years as exports have fallen short … of expectations and Canada has lost market share. This paper asks whether the Bank of Canada's current effective exchange … rate measure, the CERI, is still an accurate measure of Canada's international competitiveness. Overall, while the CERI …
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early 1980s in Canada. This paper documents these trends and discusses potential explanations. A shift-share analysis … suggests that changes to Canada's industrial and demographic structures cannot explain the long-term downward trends, although …
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In light of the fact that Canada was continuing to lose market share in the United States, Binette, de Munnik and Gouin …
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This paper evaluates the usefulness of various measures of core inflation for the conduct of monetary policy. Traditional exclusion-based measures of core inflation are found to perform relatively poorly across a range of evaluation criteria, in part due to their inability to filter...
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Cash is being used less and less for making payments in many countries, including Canada and Sweden, which might … suggest that cash will eventually disappear. However, cash in circulation in most countries, including Canada, has been stable … paper explains these differences between Canada and Sweden by focusing separately on the transactions demand for cash and on …
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The paper explores the link between financial distress and the commodity price hedging behaviour of Canadian oil firms. Specifically, we argue that the expected costs of financial distress have been associated with the hedging behaviour for Canadian oil firms between 2005 and 2015. We use...
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