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Financial Development and the Volatility of Income
Staff Working Paper 2013-4
Tiago Pinheiro,
Francisco Rivadeneyra,
Marc Teignier
This paper presents a general equilibrium model with endogenous collateral constraints to study the relationship between financial development and business cycle fluctuations in a cross-section of economies with different sizes of their financial sector.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Credit and credit aggregates,
Financial stability
JEL Code(s):
E,
E3,
E32,
E6,
E60
Real-financial Linkages through Loan Default and Bank Capital
Staff Working Paper 2013-3
Tamon Takamura
Many studies in macroeconomics argue that financial frictions do not amplify the impacts of real shocks. This finding is based on models without endogenous default on loans and bank capital. Using a model featuring endogenous interactions between firm default and bank capital, this paper revisits the propagation mechanisms of real and financial shocks.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial institutions,
Financial stability,
Financial system regulation and policies,
Interest rates
JEL Code(s):
E,
E3,
E32,
E4,
E44,
E6,
E69
House Prices, Consumption and the Role of Non-Mortgage Debt
Staff Working Paper 2013-2
Katya Kartashova,
Ben Tomlin
This paper examines the relationship between house prices and consumption, through the use of debt. Using unique Canadian household-level data that reports the uses of debt, we begin by looking at the relationship between house prices and debt.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Credit and credit aggregates,
Domestic demand and components
JEL Code(s):
D,
D1,
D10,
D14,
D3,
D31,
E,
E2,
E21
The Cyclicality of Sales, Regular and Effective Prices: Business Cycle and Policy Implications
Staff Working Paper 2013-1
Olivier Coibion,
Yuriy Gorodnichenko,
Gee Hee Hong
We study the cyclical properties of sales, regular price changes and average prices paid by consumers (“effective” prices) using data on prices and quantities sold for numerous retailers across many U.S. metropolitan areas.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Inflation and prices,
Monetary policy framework,
Monetary policy transmission
JEL Code(s):
E,
E3,
E4,
E5
How Important Are Liquidity Constraints for Canadian Households? Evidence from Micro-Data
Staff Discussion Paper 2012-9
Umar Faruqui,
Samah Torchani
Using a unique micro-dataset containing real and financial information on Canadian households for 2000–07, the authors address two questions: (1) What is the proportion of households whose consumption displays excess sensitivity to income, and who are likely liquidity constrained?
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff discussion papers
Topic(s):
Economic models,
Sectoral balance sheet
JEL Code(s):
C,
C3,
C35,
D,
D1,
D12,
D3,
D30
Extracting Information from the Business Outlook Survey Using Statistical Approaches
Staff Discussion Paper 2012-8
Lise Pichette
Since the autumn of 1997, the regional offices of the Bank of Canada have conducted quarterly consultations with businesses across Canada. These consultations, summarized in the Business Outlook Survey (BOS), are structured around a survey questionnaire that covers topics of importance to the Bank, notably business activity, pressures on production capacity, prices and inflation, and credit conditions.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff discussion papers
Topic(s):
Business fluctuations and cycles,
Regional economic developments
JEL Code(s):
C,
C4,
C43,
C8,
C82,
E,
E3,
E37
On the Welfare Effects of Credit Arrangements
Staff Working Paper 2012-43
Jonathan Chiu,
Mei Dong,
Enchuan Shao
This paper studies the welfare effects of different credit arrangements and how these effects depend on the trading mechanism and inflation. In a competitive market, a deviation from the Friedman rule is always sub-optimal. Moreover, credit arrangements can be welfare-reducing, because increased consumption by credit users will drive up the price level so that money users have to reduce consumption when facing a binding liquidity restraint.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Credit and credit aggregates,
Payment clearing and settlement systems
JEL Code(s):
E,
E4,
E40,
E5,
E50
Financial Crisis Resolution
Staff Working Paper 2012-42
Josef Schroth
This paper studies a dynamic version of the Holmstrom-Tirole model of intermediated finance. I show that competitive equilibria are not constrained efficient when the economy experiences a financial crisis. A pecuniary externality entails that banks’ desire to accumulate capital over time aggravates the scarcity of informed capital during the financial crisis.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Financial system regulation and policies
JEL Code(s):
D,
D5,
D53,
E,
E6,
E60,
G,
G0,
G01,
G1,
G10,
G18
Estimating the Policy Rule from Money Market Rates when Target Rate Changes Are Lumpy
Staff Working Paper 2012-41
Jean-Sébastien Fontaine
Most central banks effect changes to their target or policy rate in discrete increments (e.g., multiples of 0.25%) following public announcements on scheduled dates. Still, for most applications, researchers rely on the assumption that the policy rate changes linearly with economic conditions and they do not distinguish between dates with and without scheduled announcements.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Asset pricing,
Financial markets,
Interest rates
JEL Code(s):
E,
E4,
E43,
E44,
E47,
G,
G1,
G12,
G13