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The effect of exchange rate movements on heterogeneous plants : a quantile regression analysis
Tomlin, Ben; Fung, Loretta - 2010
In this paper, we examine how the effect of movements in the real exchange rate on manufacturing plants depends on the plant's placement within the productivity distribution. Appreciations of the local currency expose domestic plants to more competition from abroad as export opportunities shrink...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695482
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What affects MFP in the long-run? : evidence from Canadian industries
Leung, Danny (contributor); Zheng, Isabel Yi (contributor) - 2008
KLEMS database for Canada. We estimate a dynamic heterogeneous panel error-correction model of twelve 2-digit level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641346
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Markups in Canada : have they changed and why?
Leung, Danny (contributor) - 2008
Many empirical studies have examined the cyclical nature of the markup ratio. Until recently, few have attempted to ascertain the changes in the markup over a longer time horizon. These changes are of no less interest in view of the posited effects of increasing import competition and lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003711671
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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/10011433529
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Financial constraint and productivity : evidence from Canadian SMEs
Cao, Shutao; Leung, Danny - 2016
The degree to which financial constraint is binding is often not directly observable in commonly used business data sets (e.g., Compustat). In this paper, we measure and estimate the likelihood of a firm being constrained by external financing using a data set of small- and medium-sized Canadian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538963
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Downward nominal wage rigidity in Canada : evidence from micro-level data
Brouillette, Dany; Kostyshyna, Olena; Kyui, Natalia - 2016
We assess the importance of downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR) in Canada using both firm- and worker-level microdata …-based survey data from the Survey of Labour Income Dynamics (SLID). MWS data cover large unionized firms in Canada, while SLID is a … rich rotating panel representative of the employed population in Canada. Combining both sources of information allows for a …
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The impact of macroprudential housing finance tools in Canada : 2005 - 10
Allen, Jason; Grieder, Timothy; Peterson, Brian; … - 2016
macroprudential policy changes in Canada using a microsimulation model of mortgage demand of first-time homebuyers. Policies targeting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524648
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Estimating systematic risk under extremely adverse market conditions
Oordt, Maarten R. C. van; Chen Zhou - 2016
This paper considers the problem of estimating a linear model between two heavy-tailed variables if the explanatory variable has an extremely low (or high) value. We propose an estimator for the model coefficient by exploiting the tail dependence between the two variables and prove its...
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On the evolution of multiple jobholding in Canada
Kostyshyna, Olena; Lalé, Etienne - 2019
The number of workers who hold more than one job (a.k.a. multiple jobholders) has increased recently in Canada. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012135795
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Trade flows and exchange rates : importers, exporters and products
Devereux, Michael B.; Dong, Wei; Tomlin, Ben - 2019
Using highly disaggregated transaction-level trade data, we document the importance of new firmlevel trade partner relationships and the addition of new products to existing relationships in driving long-run import flows. Moreover, we find that these margins are sensitive to movements in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012104327