This paper examines empirically the impact of financial stress on the transmission of monetary policy shocks in Canada …

This paper develops an open-economy Bayesian structural VAR model for Canada in order to estimate the effects of … estimate this over-identified VAR model, I find that the policy shock transmits to real output through both the interest rate … and exchange rate channels, and the shock does not induce a departure from uncovered interest rate parity. I also find …

This paper seeks to document and explain the effect of a commodity price shock on underlying core inflation, and how … across many countries there was a break in the response of core inflation to a commodity price shock. In an earlier period, a … shock to commodity prices would lead to a large and significant increase in core inflation, but in later periods, the effect …