We explore how digital payments, which dominate the payment landscape in Canada, can be made more cognitively accessible. In particular, we are focused on removing cognitive barriers present in many digital interfaces and products. We propose an inclusive approach since involving people with...

In this paper, we present a novel framework for macroeconomic analysis, which tries to incorporate recent theoretical developments into a model describing an open economy. The model includes a monetary policy rule instead of the LM function together with an aggregate supply function derived from...

While exchange rate dynamics is an important topic in open economy macroeconomics, the standard tool commonly used to introduce exchange rate dynamics - the Dornbusch (1976) seminal paper along with phase diagram - is not well-suited for undergraduate students as most of them do not have yet a...

The aim of our contribution is to present an innovative instrument to teach macroeconomics at the undergraduate and master level. We develop a digital learning platform to present and explore some controversies at the very foundations of macroeconomic theory. For this purpose, we explicitly...

We examine the natural rate of unemployment estimates of two international organizations (OECD and European Commission) and various release dates. Since estimates differ to a large extent, empirical research results which use natural rate estimates will also vary depending on the data source...

This paper presents an analysis of fiscal and monetary policies in the IS/LM model that relies only on simple reductio ad absurdum arguments. It is done in a version of the IS/LM model which is rather general, without using differential calculus or linear algebra