Staff discussion papers

• A Model of the EFA Liabilities

  Staff Discussion Paper 2011-11 Francisco Rivadeneyra, Oumar Dissou

  The authors describe the liabilities model of the Exchange Fund Account (EFA). The EFA is managed using an asset-liability matching framework that requires currency and duration matching of both sides of the balance sheet.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Debt management, Foreign reserves management JEL Code(s): G, G1, G12, G3, G32

• Financial Frictions, Financial Shocks and Labour Market Fluctuations in Canada

  Staff Discussion Paper 2011-10 Yahong Zhang

  What are the effects of financial market imperfections on unemployment and vacancies in Canada? The author estimates the model of Zhang (2011) – a standard monetary dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model augmented with explicit financial and labour market frictions – with Canadian data for the period 1984Q2–2010Q4, and uses it to examine the importance of financial shocks on labour market fluctuations in Canada.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Economic models, Financial markets, Labour markets JEL Code(s): E, E3, E32, E4, E44, J, J6