June 9, 2016
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May 16, 2016
The Micro and Macro of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity
The article examines the extent of downward nominal wage rigidity in Canada and its implications for monetary policy. The authors ask whether its existence is a sufficient argument for a higher inflation target if concerns about the effective lower bound are adequately addressed.
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Bank of Canada Review articles
Topic(s):
Inflation and prices,
Inflation targets,
Labour markets,
Monetary policy framework
JEL Code(s):
E,
E3,
E4,
E5,
J,
J2,
J23,
J3,
J30
Retail Order Flow Segmentation
Staff Working Paper 2016-20
Corey Garriott,
Adrian Walton
In August 2012, the New York Stock Exchange launched the Retail Liquidity Program (RLP), a trading facility that enables participating organizations to quote dark limit orders executable only by retail traders.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Financial system regulation and policies,
Market structure and pricing
JEL Code(s):
G,
G1,
G14,
G2,
G20,
L,
L1,
L10
April 2016 Annual Reassessment of Potential Output in Canada
Staff Analytical Note 2016-4
Andrew Agopsowicz,
Dany Brouillette,
Shutao Cao,
Natalia Kyui,
Pierre St-Amant
This note summarizes the Bank of Canada’s 2016 annual reassessment of potential output growth, which is projected to be 1.5 per cent over 2016–18 and 1.6 per cent in 2019–20. This projection is weaker than the one presented in the April 2015 Monetary Policy Report.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff analytical notes
Topic(s):
Labour markets,
Potential output,
Productivity
Canadian Labour Market Dispersion: Mind the (Shrinking) Gap
Staff Analytical Note 2016-3
David Amirault,
Naveen Rai
Shocks to a currency area can and often do have asymmetric impacts on its regions that, in the absence of perfect labour mobility, lead to gaps in relative labour market performance. Witness, for example, the effects of the 2008/09 recession and subsequent financial crisis in Europe on the dispersion of employment rates across the euro area – and to a lesser extent the United States.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff analytical notes
Topic(s):
Labour markets,
Regional economic developments
JEL Code(s):
J,
J0,
J01,
R,
R2,
R23
Capital Structure, Pay Structure and Job Termination
Staff Working Paper 2016-12
Jason Allen,
James R. Thompson
We develop a model to analyze the link between financial leverage, worker pay structure and the risk of job termination. Contrary to the conventional view, we show that even in the absence of any agency problem among workers, variable pay can be optimal despite workers being risk averse and firms risk neutral.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial institutions,
Labour markets
JEL Code(s):
G,
G2,
G24,
J,
J3,
J33
Canadian Repo Market Ecology
Staff Discussion Paper 2016-8
Corey Garriott,
Kyle Gray
This is the first of the Financial Markets Department’s descriptions of Canadian financial industrial organization. The document discusses the organization of the repurchase-agreement (repo) market in Canada.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff discussion papers
Topic(s):
Financial institutions,
Financial markets,
Financial system regulation and policies,
Market structure and pricing
JEL Code(s):
G,
G1,
G18,
G2,
G21,
G23
Wait a Minute: The Efficacy of Discounting versus Non-Pecuniary Payment Steering
Staff Working Paper 2016-8
Angelika Welte
Merchants who accept credit cards face payment processing fees. In most countries, the no-surcharge rule prohibits them from using surcharges to pass these fees on to customers.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Bank notes,
Market structure and pricing,
Payment clearing and settlement systems
JEL Code(s):
D,
D1,
D12,
E,
E5,
E58,
G,
G2,
G28
Reconciling the Differences in Aggregate U.S. Wage Series
Staff Working Paper 2016-1
Julien Champagne,
André Kurmann,
Jay Stewart
Average hourly real wage series from the Labor Productivity and Costs (LPC) program and the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program have evolved very differently over the past decades.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Business fluctuations and cycles,
Labour markets
JEL Code(s):
E,
E0,
E01,
E2,
E24,
E3,
E30,
J,
J3,
J30
Extending the Labour Market Indicator to the Canadian Provinces
Staff Discussion Paper 2016-2
Alexander Fritsche,
Katherine Ragan
Calculating the labour market indicator (LMI) at the provincial level provides useful insights into Canada’s regional economies and reveals differing trends in the state of underlying labour market conditions across provinces. Conclusions based on the Canadian LMI do not necessarily translate to the provinces. In most cases, the correlations between the provincial LMIs and the underlying labour market variables have the expected sign.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff discussion papers
Topic(s):
Labour markets,
Recent economic and financial developments
JEL Code(s):
E,
E2,
E24,
E27,
J,
J2,
J21,
J23