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countries, Canada can avoid the uncertainty and volatility witnessed in carbon markets abroad while benefiting from an efficient …
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levels. They focus primarily on papers written about Canada, but also draw on selected studies from other countries …
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two of the main settlement systems in Canada. They are closely linked; for example, at the end of the day the final CDSX … payment obligations must settle on the Bank of Canada’s books, with payments made through the LVTS. CDSX settlement payments …
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. As background, they provide a brief overview of the financial system in Canada, including a discussion of the financial …
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The author constructs a measure of core inflation using a structural vector autoregression containing oil-price growth, output growth, and inflation. This macro-foundedʺ measure of inflation forecasts total inflation at least as well as other, atheoretical measures. -- Inflation and prices
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kinds of non-bank retail payments schemes currently available in Canada, illustrating each by focusing on a specific example …
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Canada played an important role in the postwar establishment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), yet it was also … of a floating, market-determined exchange rate. Although the IMF heavily criticized this decision, Canada’s trail … floating exchange rates, which had predicted significant volatility. In May of 1962, Canada returned to the BrettonWoods system …
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The authors examine the impact of the recent run-up in energy and non-energy commodity prices on the Canadian dollar. Using the Bank of Canadas' exchange rate equation, they find that the differences between the actual value of the Canadian exchange rate and the simulated values observed in 2007...
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The proportion of assets held by the average Canadian firm in the form of cash has increased steadily since the early 1990s, and is now roughly twice as large as in 1990. The literature has established that the cash-holding behaviour of firms is highly correlated with financial constraints and...
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debt-income ratio, which rose from 0.75 to 0.95, on average. Rising debt ratios were driven by a 50 per cent increase in … rising debt-income ratios among households in the bottom income quintile as the most important development of the years 1999 …
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