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This paper examines how trade liberalization and fluctuations in real exchange rates affect export-market entry/exit and plant-level productivity. It uses the experience of Canadian manufacturing plants over three separate periods that feature different rates of bilateral tariff reductions and...
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equations model. We report the results of an empirical analysis of activity of the Bank of Canada, for the period from 1953 …-2006, with regard to the Canada-U.S. exchange rate, with changes in foreign reserves proxying for intervention activity …
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policies of an actual central bank, the Bank of Canada. Finally, the paper considers the role of fiscal policy in an open …
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We examine the simultaneous effects of real-exchange-rate movements and of tariff reductions on plant death in Canadian manufacturing industries between 1979 and 1996. We find that both currency appreciation and tariff cuts increase the probability of plant death, but that tariff reductions have...
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A confluence of factors promises to put pressure on the new Bank of Canada governor to direct monetary policy at fixing … Canada's so-called "overvalued" currency, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. But in "The … Seductive Myth of Canada's 'Overvalued' Dollar," author Christopher Ragan provides two strong arguments against doing so: the …
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policies of an actual central bank, the Bank of Canada. Finally, the paper considers the role of fiscal policy in an open …
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