Staff research, Publications
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Determinants of Borrowing Limits on Credit Cards
The difference between actual borrowings and borrowing limits alone generates information asymmetry in the credit card market. -
Monetary Policy under Model and Data-Parameter Uncertainty
Policy-makers in the United States over the past 15 to 20 years seem to have been cautious in setting policy: empirical estimates of monetary policy rules such as Taylor's (1993) rule are much less aggressive than those derived from optimizing models. -
Y a-t-il eu surinvestissement au Canada durant la seconde moitié des années 1990?
This study on overinvestment differs from the existing literature in that investment in machinery and equipment is modelled as a structural vector autoregression with identification achieved by imposing long-run restrictions, as in Blanchard and Quah (1989). -
State-Dependent or Time-Dependent Pricing: Does It Matter for Recent U.S. Inflation?
Inflation equals the product of two terms: an extensive margin (the fraction of items with price changes) and an intensive margin (the average size of those changes). -
Pre-Bid Run-Ups Ahead of Canadian Takeovers: How Big Is the Problem?
The authors study the price - volume dynamics ahead of the first public announcement of a takeover for 420 Canadian firms from 1985 to 2002. -
The Stochastic Discount Factor: Extending the Volatility Bound and a New Approach to Portfolio Selection with Higher-Order Moments
The authors extend the well-known Hansen and Jagannathan (HJ) volatility bound. HJ characterize the lower bound on the volatility of any admissible stochastic discount factor (SDF) that prices correctly a set of primitive asset returns. -
January 30, 2005
Annual Report 2004
The Bank of Canada has played an integral role in Canadian society for 70 years. When the Bank opened its doors in the spring of 1935, this country was struggling to define itself and to survive the economic and social turmoil of the Great Depression. Like Canada’s economy, its central bank has evolved and grown over the years. It has faced critical challenges and embraced change. But the Bank’s mandate has not changed. It is now, as it was then, to provide an effective, national monetary authority for Canada. -
January 27, 2005
Monetary Policy Report Update – January 2005
The adjustment of the Canadian economy to major global developments continues to shape the economic outlook. -
January 25, 2005
Bank of Canada Review - Winter 2004-2005
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