This paper examines the effects of revisions on quarterly GDP estimates in highlighting effects on business cycle turning points. We integrate a Markow-switching process to a dynamic factor model of monthly GDP. The quarterly averages of our monthly GDP estimates are, by construction, exactly...

This study explores the ‘brain drain' explanation for the concentration of incomes in Canada during the past thirty years, namely, that high-skilled Canadians have made use of the high salaries on offer in the United States to extract higher salaries at home. If this is the case, then for a...

We provide a general methodology for forecasting in the presence of structural breaks induced by unpredictable changes to model parameters. Bayesian methods of learning and model comparison are used to derive a predictive density that takes into account the possibility that a break will occur...