Considerable attention has been given in the last ten years to estimation of the importance of sectoral shifts in explaining short-term fluctuations in unemployment. Recent studies have used US stock prices data to develop indexes of sectoral shocks less affected by cyclical influence than...

Financial consumers are facing paradoxical situations. On the one hand, they are overly solicited to use credits on various forms. On the other hand, segments of the population do not have access to credit. In this paper, we examine some emerging issues regarding consumer protection and...

Nous étudions l’effet du Régime d’accession à la propriété (RAP)sur la demande de logement. L’étude est théorique et basée sur un modèle de cycle vital en temps continu dans lequel le ménage retire de la satisfaction de la consommation d’un bien composite et des services du...

Mortgage indebtedness has risen considerably in Canada in recent years, pushing households’ debt-to-income ratio to an all time high. In order to identify what variables explains these changes in the stock of debt, we analyze the inflow and outflow of mortgage financing. We show that the...

Les études empiriques sur l’efficience des institutions bancaires rapportent un niveau moyen d’efficience faible. Selon nous, une partie de cette « boîte noire » s’explique par le fait que le contexte dans lequel opèrent les institutions financières est souvent négligé. Cette...

This paper seeks to identify the source of the persistent gap between Canadian and US unemployment rates and why the gap has widened more for women than for men. A graphical method is proposed to distinguish between employment shocks and changes in the activity rate. The labor market is also...

Nous mesurons ý l'aide du DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) l'efficacitÈ des caisses populaires acadiennes en utilisant la valeur des produits d'intermÈdiation ainsi que le nombre de transactions rÈalisÈes par chaque caisse entre 1997 et 2000, au moment où un important programme de fusions...

This study seeks to establish how banking productivity is affected by taking into account, in addition to loans and deposits, transactions carried out by banks for their customers. We use a panel of data on Desjardins covering the period 1999 - 2002. Two methods are applied to measure...

This article investigates the sensitivity of Canadian banks to macroeconomic shocks in terms of risk and profitability. We identify the impact of diversification strategy on Canadian banks which are not allowed to enlarge completely their activities. Using a sample of the six largest Canadian...