Financial stability

• Stress Testing the Corporate Loans Portfolio of the Canadian Banking Sector

  Staff Working Paper 2006-47 Miroslav Misina, David Tessier, Shubhasis Dey

  Stress testing, at its most general level, is an investigation of the performance of an entity under abnormal operating conditions.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial stability JEL Code(s): C, C1, C15, G, G2, G21, G3, G33

• The Role of Debt and Equity Finance over the Business Cycle

  Staff Working Paper 2006-45 Francisco Covas, Wouter den Haan

  The authors show that debt and equity issuance are procyclical for most listed U.S. firms.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Financial stability JEL Code(s): E, E3, G, G1, G3

• Linking Real Activity and Financial Markets: The Bonds, Equity, and Money (BEAM) Model

  Staff Working Paper 2006-42 Céline Gauthier, Fuchun Li

  The authors estimate a small monthly macroeconometric model (BEAM, for bonds, equity, and money) of the Canadian economy built around three cointegrating relationships linking financial and real variables over the 1975–2002 period.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial markets, Financial stability JEL Code(s): C, C5, E, E4

• Risk-Cost Frontier and Collateral Valuation in Securities Settlement Systems for Extreme Market Events

  Staff Working Paper 2006-17 Alejandro García, Ramazan Gençay

  The authors examine how the use of extreme value theory yields collateral requirements that are robust to extreme fluctuations in the market price of the asset used as collateral.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Financial stability, Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): C, C1, G, G0, G1