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We provide a decomposition of nominal yields into real yields, expectations of future inflation and inflation risk premiums when real bonds or inflation swaps are unavailable or unreliable due to their relative illiquidity. We combine nominal yields with surveys of inflation forecasts within a...
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Information on the allocation and pricing of over-the-counter (OTC) markets is scarce. Furfine (1999) pioneered an algorithm that provides transaction-level data on the OTC interbank lending market. The veracity of the data identified, however, is not well established. Using permutation methods,...
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' funding advantage in Canada, and on the extent to which market discipline exists across different securities issued by the … Canadian banks. The banking sector in Canada provides a unique setting in which to examine market discipline along with the … prospects of proposed reforms, because Canada has no history of government bailouts. Our results suggest that large banks likely …
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lower bound of the corridor. However, by targeting a slightly higher level, the Bank of Canada could be 95% certain that the …
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expansionary and a contractionary monetary policy episode in Canada. Our identification takes advantage of the fact that the … interest rates of short-term fixed-rate mortgages (the dominant product in Canada's mortgage market) have to be reset according …
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Canada, and (ii) how business perspectives are affected by monetary policy shocks. Measures of business sentiment (soft data … effects of monetary policy shocks on firms' business perspectives using data from the Bank of Canada's quarterly Business …
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We use narrative evidence along with a novel database of real-time data and forecasts from the Bank of Canada's staff … monetary policy in Canada. We show that it is crucial to take into account the break in the conduct of monetary policy caused … fall in the price level, while not accounting for the break leads to a permanent decrease in real GDP and a price puzzle …
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I propose a novel dynamic portfolio-balance model of the yield curve for Government of Canada bonds to evaluate the … portfolio-balance effects of the Bank of Canada's Government of Canada Bond Purchase Program. My results suggest that this … Government of Canada's debt by approximately 1.4 years. This in turn reduced Canadian 10-year and 5-year zero-coupon yields by 84 …
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Historical narratives typically associate financial crises with credit expansions and asset price misalignments. The … problem, we focus on financial stress and ask whether credit and asset price movements can help predict it. To measure … prices, for example). The exercise is performed for Canada, but the methodology is suitable for any country that fits the …
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This paper presents some new results on the price discovery process in both the Canadian and U.S. 10-year Government … BrokerTec. In general, we find that relatively more price discovery occurs in the futures markets than the cash markets in both … Canada and the U.S. and that the results look remarkably similar across the two countries despite the large differences in …
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