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An examination of Canadian firms delisting from US exchanges

Witmer, Jonathan (contributor) - 2008

find that, for most countries, less than 10% of firms get delisted from a U.S. exchange during my sample period. For Canada …

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Swedish Riksbank notes and Enskilda bank notes : lessons for digital currencies

Fung, Ben Siu-cheong; Hendry, Scott; Weber, Warren E. - 2018

Swedish experience corresponds to that of Canada and the United States. Sweden is important to study because it has had … differences between the experience of Sweden and that of Canada and the U.S. emerge. (i) Swedish bank notes were safe; in some …This paper examines the experience of Sweden with government notes and private bank notes to determine how well the …

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Quantitative easing and long-term yields in small open economies

Díez de los Ríos, Antonio; Shamloo, Maral - 2017

We compare the Federal Reserve's asset purchase programs with those implemented by the Bank of England and the Swedish Riksbank, and the Swiss National Bank’s reserve expansion program. We decompose government bond yields into (i) an expectations component, (ii) a global term premium and (iii)...

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Financial stress, monetary policy, and economic activity

Li, Fuchun; St-Amant, Pierre - 2010

This paper examines empirically the impact of financial stress on the transmission of monetary policy shocks in Canada …

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Estimating the structure of the payment network in the LVTS : an application of estimating communities in network data

Chapman, James; Zhang, Nellie - 2010

In the Canadian large value payment system an important goal is to understand how liquidity is transferred through the system and hence how efficient the system is in settling payments. Understanding the structure of the underlying network of relationships between participants in the payment...

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Structural inflation models with real wage rigidities : the case of Canada

Dufour, Jean-Marie; Khalif, Lynda; Kichian, Maral - 2009

Real wage rigidities have recently been proposed as a way of building intrinsic persistence in inflation within the context of New Keynesian Phillips Curves. Using two recent illustrative structural models, we evaluate empirically the importance of real wage rigidities in the data and the extent...

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Short changed? : the market's reaction to the short sale ban of 2008

Gagnon, Louis; Witmer, Jonathan - 2009

the trading volume from the U.S. to Canada among financial stocks during the ban. Both price and volume effects are …-sales restrictions (Miller (1977)). Our findings also imply that pessimistic investors were more preponderant in the U.S. than in Canada … Canada prior to the ban. -- Financial markets ; International topics …

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Consumption, housing collateral, and the Canadian business cycle

Christensen, Ian; Corrigan, Paul; Mendicino, Caterina; … - 2009

Using Bayesian methods, we estimate a small open economy model in which consumers face limits to credit determined by the value of their housing stock. The purpose of this paper is to quantify the role of collateralized household debt in the Canadian business cycle. Our findings show that the...

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Exchange rate pass-through and monetary policy : how strong is the link?

Murchison, Stephen - 2009

consumer price index has declined in Canada since the early 1980s and is currently close to zero. Taylor (2000) suggests that … due to a change in the parameters of the central bank's policy rule. Evidence is presented for Canada indicating that … suggest that increases in the aggressiveness of policy consistent with that observed for Canada are sufficient to effectively …

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Optimal monetary policy during endogenous housing-market boom-bust cycles

Tomura, Hajime - 2009

This paper uses a small-open economy model for the Canadian economy to examine the optimal Taylor-type monetary policy rule that stabilizes output and inflation in an environment where endogenous boom-bust cycles in house prices can occur. The model shows that boom-bust cycles in house prices...

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