This report examines four distinct and geographically dispersed projects referred to here as community banking projects. The projects identified are Pigeon Park Savings (PPS, Vancouver), the Community Financial Services Centre (CFSC, Winnipeg), the Cash & Save (Toronto) and the Fonds...

Since the advent of standard national accounts data over 60 years ago, economists have traditionally relied on monthly or quarterly data supplied by central statistical agencies for macroeconomic modelling and forecasting. However, technological advances of the past several years have resulted...

This paper studies the role that market structure plays in affecting the diffusion of electronic banking. Electronic banking (and electronic commerce more generally) reduces the cost of performing many types of transactions for firms. The full benefits for firms from adoption, however, only...