July 12, 2023
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November 19, 2010
Has Exchange Rate Pass-Through Really Declined? Some Recent Insights from the Literature
Building on an earlier Review article, the authors critically reassess the premise that exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) has declined in light of recent studies of the issue in the context of a dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium framework. -
Output Comovement and Inflation Dynamics in a Two-Sector Model with Durable Goods: The Role of Sticky Information and Heterogeneous Factor Markets
In a simple two-sector New Keynesian model, sticky prices generate a counterfactual negative comovement between the output of durable and nondurable goods following a monetary policy shock. We show that heterogeneous factor markets allow any combination of strictly positive price stickiness to generate positive output comovement. -
June 14, 2012
Strengthening Financial Infrastructure: The New Canadian Central Counterparty
Deputy Governor Agathe Côté discusses efforts to strengthen financial infrastructure, specifically the implementation of a central counterparty for repos -
The Carrot and the Stick: The Business Cycle Implications of Incentive Pay in the Labor Search Model
This paper considers a real business cycle model with labor search frictions where two types of incentive pay are explicitly introduced following the insights from the micro literature on performance pay (e.g. Lazear, 1986). -
Effectiveness of Capital Controls in India: Evidence from the Offshore NDF Market
This paper examines the effectiveness of international capital controls in India over time by analyzing daily return differentials in the non-deliverable forward (NDF) markets using the self-exciting threshold autoregressive (SETAR) methodology. -
June 18, 2009
From Green Shoots to the Harvest: Comments on Financial Stability
From the initially careful references to data that suggested a slowing of the rate of decline in global activity, the use of the term "green shoots" has quickly evolved. -
The Geography of Pandemic Containment
Interconnectedness between US states has affected the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the optimal containment policies regulating the movement of goods and people within and between states. -
August 25, 2015
The Long-Term Evolution of House Prices: An International Perspective
Deputy Governor Lawrence Schembri discusses the international evidence of underlying determinants of long-term movements in house prices. -