Staff research

• Education and Self-Employment: Changes in Earnings and Wealth Inequality

  Staff Working Paper 2006-40 Yaz Terajima

  The author quantitatively studies the interaction between education and occupation choices and its implication for the relationship between the changes in earnings inequality and the changes in wealth inequality in the United States over the 1983–2001 period.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Economic models, Labour markets JEL Code(s): D, D3, D31, I, I2, I21, J, J2, J23

• Short-Run and Long-Run Causality between Monetary Policy Variables and Stock Prices

  Staff Working Paper 2006-39 Jean-Marie Dufour, David Tessier

  The authors examine simultaneously the causal links connecting monetary policy variables, real activity, and stock returns.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Monetary and financial indicators JEL Code(s): C, C1, C12, C15, C3, C32, C5, C51, C53, E, E5, E52

• Conditioning Information and Variance Bounds on Pricing Kernels with Higher-Order Moments: Theory and Evidence

  Staff Working Paper 2006-38 Fousseni Chabi-Yo

  The author develops a strategy for utilizing higher moments and conditioning information efficiently, and hence improves on the variance bounds computed by Hansen and Jagannathan (1991, the HJ bound) and Gallant, Hansen, and Tauchen (1990, the GHT bound).

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial markets, Market structure and pricing JEL Code(s): C, C6, C61, G, G1, G12, G13

• Endogenous Borrowing Constraints and Consumption Volatility in a Small Open Economy

  Staff Working Paper 2006-37 Carlos De Resende

  Consumption volatility relative to output volatility is consistently higher in emerging economies than in developed economies.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): International topics JEL Code(s): F, F3, F32, F34, F4, F41

• Credit in a Tiered Payments System

  Staff Working Paper 2006-36 Alexandra Lai, Nikil Chande, Sean O'Connor

  Payments systems are typically characterized by some degree of tiering, with upstream firms (clearing agents) providing settlement accounts to downstream institutions that wish to clear and settle payments indirectly in these systems (indirect clearers).

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial services, Market structure and pricing, Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, L, L1, L12, L13, L2, L22

• Survey of Price-Setting Behaviour of Canadian Companies

  Staff Working Paper 2006-35 David Amirault, Carolyn Kwan, Gordon Wilkinson

  In many mainstream macroeconomic models, sticky prices play an important role in explaining the effects of monetary policy on the economy.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Inflation and prices, Monetary policy transmission JEL Code(s): D, D4, D40, E, E3, E30, L, L1, L11

• The Macroeconomic Effects of Non-Zero Trend Inflation

  Staff Working Paper 2006-34 Robert Amano, Steve Ambler, Nooman Rebei

  The authors study the macroeconomic effects of non-zero trend inflation in a simple dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with sticky prices.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Economic models, Inflation and prices, Inflation targets JEL Code(s): E, E2, E24, E3, E32

• Are Canadian Banks Efficient? A Canada–U.S. Comparison

  Staff Working Paper 2006-33 Jason Allen, Walter Engert, Ying Liu

  The authors compare the efficiency of Canada's largest banks with U.S. commercial banks over the past 20 years. Efficiency is measured in three ways.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions JEL Code(s): C, C3, C33, D, D2, D24, G, G2, G21

• Governance and the IMF: Does the Fund Follow Corporate Best Practice?

  Staff Working Paper 2006-32 Eric Santor

  The governance challenges facing the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are not simply limited to representation and voice, and the associated question of quota allocation.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): International topics JEL Code(s): F, F3

• Assessing and Valuing the Non-Linear Structure of Hedge Fund Returns

  Staff Working Paper 2006-31 Antonio Diez de los Rios, René Garcia

  Several studies have put forward the non-linear structure and option-like features of returns associated with hedge fund strategies.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Financial institutions JEL Code(s): C, C1, C5, G, G1