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Borrowing constraints, the cost of precautionary saving and unemployment insurance

Crossley, Thomas F.; Low, Hamish - 2005

Job losers exhibit significant heterogeneity in wealth holdings and in the marginal propensity to consume transitory income. We consider potential sources of this heterogeneity, whether (some of) the unemployed face borrowing constraints, and the implications of this heterogeneity for...

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Economics research in Canada: A long-run assessment of journal publications

Davies, James B.; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - 2007

We examine the publications of authors affiliated with an economics research institution in Canada in (i) the Top-10 journals in economics according to journals? impact factors, and (ii) the Canadian Journal of Economics. We consider all publications in the even years from 1980 to 2000. Canadian...

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Do world shocks drive domestic business cycles? Some evidence from structural estimation

Lubik, Thomas; Teo, Wing Leong - 2005

Existing results on the contribution of terms of trade and world interest rate shocks to output fluctuations in small open economies range from less than 10% to almost 90%. We argue that an identification problems lies at the heart of these vastly different results. In this paper, we overcome...

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Do central banks respond to exchange rate movements? A structural investigation

Lubik, Thomas A.; Schorfheide, Frank - 2003

We estimate a small-scale, structural general equilibrium model of a small open economy using Bayesian methods. Our main focus is the conduct of monetary policy in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.K., as measured by nominal interest rate rules. We consider generic Taylor-type rules,...

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Asymmetry and Spillover Effects in the North American Equity Markets

Pollard, Stephen K.; Sapra, Sunil K.; Canarella, Giorgio - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 1 (2007) 2007-12, pp. 1-52

In this paper we examine the issue of asymmetry in the return and volatility spillover effects from the US equity market into the Canadian and Mexican equity markets. We model the conditional volatility of the returns in each of the three markets using the asymmetric power model of Ding, Granger...

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Uncover Latent PPP by Dynamic Factor Error Correction Model (DF-ECM) Approach: Evidence from Five OECD Countries

Qin, Duo - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-7, pp. 1-26

This study explores a new modelling approach that bridges the gap between multilateral country-level data and the bilateral-model based, goods-market specific purchasing power parity (PPP) hypothesis. Under this approach, PPP is embedded in latent common factors, extractable from a large set of...

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The reliability of Canadian output gap estimates

Cayen, Jean-Philippe; van Norden, Simon - 2004

Recent work on policy rules under uncertainty have highlighted the impact of output gap measurement errors on economic outcomes and their importance in the formulation of appropriate policy rules. This paper investigates the reliability of current estimates of the output gap in Canada. We begin...

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Central Bank accountability and transparency: theory and some evidence

Eijffinger, Sylvester C. W.; Hoeberichts, Marco - 2000

The first part of this paper outlines the concept of democratic accountability of central banks, and compares the legal accountability of the ECB with some other central banks (Bank of Canada, Bank of Japan, Bank of England and the Federal Reserve System). In the second part, we present a theory...

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Monetary policy transparency, public commentary, and market perceptions about monetary policy in Canada

Siklos, Pierre L. - 2000

Die Einführung von Inflationszielen in Kanada im Jahr 1991 verdeutlichte angeblich das Ziel der Geldpolitik, nämlich … können, inwieweit es der Bank von Kanada gelingt, die Inflation stabil auf niedrigem Niveau zu halten. Deshalb liegt die … Frage nahe, ob tatsächlich - wie der Präsident der Zentralbank kürzlich feststellte - ' ... die Erfolge der Bank von Kanada …

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Evaluating the Impact of R&D Tax Credits on Innovation: A Microeconometric Study on Canadian Firms

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hanel, Petr; Rosa, Julio Miguel - 2004

This study examines the effect of R&D tax credits on innovation activities of Canadian manufacturing firms. Over the 1997-1999 period the Federal and Provincial R&D tax credit programs were used by more than one third of all manufacturing firms and by close to two thirds of firms in...

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