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What COVID-19 may leave behind : technology-related job postings in Canada
Bellatin, Alejandra; Galassi, Gabriela - 2022 - Last updated: April 4, 2022
We use data from online job postings listed on a job board to study how the demand for jobs linked to new technologies during the COVID-19 crisis responded to pandemic mitigation policies. We classify job postings into a standard occupation classification, using text analytics, and we group...
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Using payments data to nowcast macroeconomic variables during the onset of COVID-19
Chapman, James; Desai, Ajit - 2021 - Last updated: January 21, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting public health mitigation have caused large-scale economic disruptions globally. During this time, there is an increased need to predict the macroeconomy's short-term dynamics to ensure the effective implementation of fiscal and monetary policy. However,...
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The heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 on Canadian household consumption, debt and savings
MacGee, James; Pugh, Thomas Michael; See, Kurt - 2020 - Last updated: November 27, 2020
This paper develops an agent-based modelling approach to quantify the impact of COVID-19-induced economic disruptions on household debt and unplanned savings over 2020. We merge data from the Survey of Financial Security and the Survey of Household Spending to construct a representative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322138
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Debt relief programs and money left on the table : evidence from Canada's response to COVID-19
Allen, Jason; Clark, Robert; Li, Shaoteng; Vincent, Nicolas - 2021 - Last updated: March 15, 2021
implemented in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These programs allowed individuals to push off mortgage and credit …
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Demand for Canadian banknotes from international travel : indirect evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic
Xiao, Hong Yu - 2024 - Last updated: June 14, 2024
banknote demand from international visitors to Canada by exploiting the exogenous shock from COVID-19 international travel … traveler demand's distinct regional patterns and data from the Bank of Canada's Bank Note Distribution System. I find that each … international visitor brought on average $165 worth of hundred-dollar notes with them to Canada prior to the pandemic. Under …
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Global demand and supply sentiment : evidence from earnings calls
Taskin, Temel; Ruch, Franz Ulrich - 2023 - Last updated: June 30, 2023
This paper quantifies global demand, supply and uncertainty shocks and compares two major global recessions: the 2008-09 Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic. We use two alternate approaches to decompose economic shocks: text mining techniques on earning call transcripts and a structural...
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Electronic transactions as high-frequency indicators of economic activity
Galbraith, John W. (contributor); Tkacz, Greg (contributor) - 2007
are correlated with Statistics Canada's revisions to GDP; (iv) high-frequency analyses of transactions around extreme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641311
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A wave of protectionism? : an analysis of economic and political considerations
Maier, Philipp (contributor) - 2008
are important. An analysis of the economic effects using the Bank of Canada's Global Economy Model shows that the gains …
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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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The welfare implications of fiscal dominance
De Resende, Carlos (contributor); Rebei, Nooman (contributor) - 2008
dominance in both Mexico and South Korea, but almost no fiscal dominance in Canada and the U.S. The country-specific estimates …
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