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Stability versus flexibility : the role of temporary employment in labour adjustment
Cao, Shutao; Leung, Danny - 2010
In Canada, temporary workers account for 14 per cent of jobs in the non-farm business sector, are present in a range of … costly labour adjustment and temporary workers. The calibrated model captures some features of job reallocation in Canada …
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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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Price movements in the Canadian residential mortgage market
Allen, Jason; McVanel, Darcey - 2009
The authors empirically analyze the price-setting behaviour of the major Canadian banks in the residential mortgage market over the period 19912007. They use weekly posted prices of the major mortgage providers to study the degree of competition in mortgage price setting. Their results suggest...
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Why do shoppers use cash? : evidence from shopping diary data
Wakamori, Naoki; Welte, Angelika - 2012
prefer using cash or merchants restrict card usage. Using the Bank of Canada's 2009 Method of Payment Survey, we estimate a …
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Examining full collateral coverage in Canada's Large Value Transfer System
Embree, Lana; Taylor, Varya - 2015
The Large Value Transfer System (LVTS) is Canada's main electronic interbank funds transfer system that financial …
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Transmission of cyber risk through the Canadian wholesale payments system
Kosse, Anneke; Lu, Zhentong - 2022 - Last updated: May 16, 2022
In this paper, we study how the impact of a cyber-attack that paralyzes one or multiple banks' ability to send payments would transmit to other banks through the Canadian wholesale payments system. Based on historical payment data, we simulate a wide range of scenarios and evaluate the total...
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Predicting payment migration in Canada
Kosse, Anneke; Lu, Zhentong; Xerri, Gabriel - 2020 - Last updated: September 14, 2020
Canada currently has two core payment systems for processing funds transfers between financial institutions: the Large …
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The impact of government debt supply on bond market liquidity : an empirical analysis of the Canadian market
Gao, Jeffrey; Jin, Jianjian; Thompson, Jacob - 2018
This paper finds that Government of Canada benchmark bonds tend to be more illiquid over the subsequent month when …
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What drives episodes of settlement fails in the government of Canada bond market?
Fontaine, Jean-Sébastien; Pinnington, James; Walton, Adrian - 2017
We study settlement fails for trades in the Government of Canada bond market. We find that settlement fails do not …
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An empirical analysis of bill payment choices
Kosse, Anneke - 2021 - Last updated: May 17, 2021
The aim of this paper is to examine which payment instruments Canadians use for paying bills and to assess the factors driving their bill payment behaviour. I use 2019 survey data collected among over 4,000 Canadians and estimate a set of binomial and multinomial regressions to assess the...
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