This paper aims to study the impact of US subprime mortgage on the housing market in Canada since there is a close relationship between the two countries from regional perspective as well as trading and cooperation. By reviewing the official statistics data in the US and Canada, this paper...

We examine whether the Canadian banking sector was afflicted by financial contagion from the 2008 sub-prime crisis in the United States financial sector. We find that Canadian banks were affected by contagion, though those with higher liquidity withstood better its adverse effects. Our results...

This paper analyses the impact of the United States' (US) subprime crisis on Canadian banks' stock returns, using event study methodology. Our results suggest that despite their holdings of US toxic (subprime) mortgage-backed assets, Canadian banks have been solid in the face of the subprime...

In this paper, we study the impact of Canada's adoption of protectionist trade policy in 1879 on Canadian welfare. Under the National Policy the Canadian average weighted tariff increased from 14% to 21%. The conventional view is that this was a distortionary policy that negatively affected...

In this paper we document Canada's trade policy response to late-nineteenth- and earlytwentieth-century globalization. We link newly digitized annual product-specific data on the value of Canadian imports and duties paid from 1870-1913 to establishment-specific production and location...