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• The Inflation-adjusted Rate of Return on Corporate Debt and Equity: 1966-1980

  Technical Report No. 39 Stuart Gilson

  This report has two main objectives: First, to determine whether the real tax rate on investment income has proven sensitive to inflation; second, to determine the extent to which real returns to debt and equity, based on published data, differ from those based on inflation-adjusted data. The scope of the inflationary distortion in corporate income […]

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Technical reports Topic(s): Interest rates JEL Code(s): E, E3, E31, G, G1, G12, G3, G30

• Responses of Various Econometric Models to Selected Policy Shocks

  Technical Report No. 38 Brian O'Reilly, Graydon Paulin, Philip Smith

  In July, 1982 a seminar was held in Ottawa to compare the responses of nine major econometric models to a previously specified set of shocks to the Canadian economy. At the seminar, which was sponsored by the Bank of Canada and the Department of Finance, participants presented the results of their simulations and discussed the […]

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Technical reports Topic(s): Economic models JEL Code(s): C, C5, C52, E, E1, E17

• The Investment Supply Response of Traded-Goods Industries

  Technical Report No. 37 Paul Boothe

  In this paper, the author uses neoclassical investment equations to examine investment behaviour in four groups of Canadian industries: export-oriented, import-competing, two- way-trade, and low-trade.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Technical reports Topic(s): Balance of payments and components JEL Code(s): E, E2, E22

• La non-neutralité du mode de financement du gouvernement

  Technical Report No. 36 Paul Masson

  It has long been a subject of debate among economists as to whether different methods of financing government expenditures—issuing bonds or raising taxes—will bring about different effects on the economy. The purpose of this technical report is to quantify the substitution effects brought about by tax rate changes and to see to what extent they […]

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Technical reports Topic(s): Debt management JEL Code(s): H, H6, H60

• Asset Stocks and the Use of Monetary and Fiscal Policies to Reduce Inflation

  Technical Report No. 35 Paul Masson

  This paper analyzes the dynamic behaviour of a country's economy under different policy regimes, by examining the cyclical effects that occur when certain intermediate macroeconomic targets are adopted. To highlight the differences in the adjustment paths that result, the study deliberately limits policy choice: either money supply or nominal income as targets, and either real […]

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Technical reports Topic(s): Fiscal policy, Inflation and prices, Monetary policy and uncertainty JEL Code(s): E, E3, E31, E6, E63

• Modelling Government Fiscal Behaviour in Canada

  Technical Report No. 34 Jack Selody, Kevin Lynch

  There are many models of fiscal policy in the economic literature and each has been based on a particular set of assumptions concerning the interaction of policy variables. However, even though these assumptions are critical to the behaviour of the models, there has as yet been no systematic attempt to test their validity or relative […]

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Technical reports Topic(s): Fiscal policy JEL Code(s): C, C5, C50, H, H3, H30, H6, H60

• An Econometric Model of the Steel Trade

  Technical Report No. 33 Richard Dion

  In this report, the author uses steel as a case study for an analysis at the industrial level of forces at work in the international economy that have had an important impact on recent Canadian economic performance. Prominent among those forces are cost competitiveness and aggregate demand in Canada and abroad.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Technical reports Topic(s): Balance of payments and components, Economic models JEL Code(s): C, C5, C51, F, F1, F14