May 16, 2016
Staff research, Publications
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Housing and Tax-Deferred Retirement Accounts
Assets in tax-deferred retirement accounts (TDA) and housing are two major components of household portfolios. In this paper, we develop a life-cycle model to examine the interaction between households’ use of TDA and their housing decisions. -
Identification and Estimation of Risk Aversion in First-Price Auctions with Unobserved Auction Heterogeneity
This paper shows point identification in first-price auction models with risk aversion and unobserved auction heterogeneity by exploiting multiple bids from each auction and variation in the number of bidders. The required exclusion restriction is shown to be consistent with a large class of entry models. -
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Estimating Systematic Risk Under Extremely Adverse Market Conditions
This paper considers the problem of estimating a linear model between two heavy-tailed variables if the explanatory variable has an extremely low (or high) value. We propose an estimator for the model coefficient by exploiting the tail dependence between the two variables and prove its asymptotic properties. -
April 30, 2016
Research Update - April 2016
This monthly newsletter features the latest research publications by Bank of Canada economists including external publications and working papers published on the Bank of Canada’s website. -
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Early Warning of Financial Stress Events: A Credit-Regime-Switching Approach
We propose an early warning model for predicting the likelihood of a financial stress event for a given future time, and examine whether credit plays an important role in the model as a non-linear propagator of shocks.