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The Impact of Unanticipated Defaults in Canada's Large Value Transfer System
Staff Working Paper 2005-25
Darcey McVanel
Canada's Large Value Transfer System (LVTS) is designed to meet international risk-proofing standards at a minimum cost to participants in terms of collateral requirements.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial institutions,
Payment clearing and settlement systems
JEL Code(s):
E,
E4,
E44,
E47,
G,
G2,
G21
A Search Model of Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, and Unemployment
Staff Working Paper 2005-24
Robin Boadway,
Oana Secrieru,
Marianne Vigneault
The authors develop a search model of venture capital in which the number of successful matches of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists (VCs) at any moment in time is a function of the number of entrepreneurs searching for funds, the number of VCs searching for entrepreneurs, and the number of vacancies posted by each VC.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Fiscal policy,
Labour markets
JEL Code(s):
D,
D8,
D82,
G,
G1,
G18,
G2,
G24,
H,
H2,
H21,
J,
J6,
J64
Pocket Banks and Out-of-Pocket Losses: Links between Corruption and Contagion
Staff Working Paper 2005-23
Raphael Solomon
The author describes a model with a corrupt banking system, in which bankers knowingly lend at market interest rates to back projects riskier than the market rate indicates.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial institutions,
Financial stability
JEL Code(s):
D,
D8,
D82,
G,
G1,
G19,
G2,
G21
The Effects of the Exchange Rate on Investment: Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing Industries
Staff Working Paper 2005-22
Tarek Harchaoui,
Faouzi Tarkhani,
Terence Yuen
Using industry-level data for 22 Canadian manufacturing industries, the authors examine the relationship between exchange rates and investment during the period 1981–97.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Domestic demand and components,
Exchange rates
JEL Code(s):
D,
D2,
D24,
F,
F4
The Effectiveness of Official Foreign Exchange Intervention in a Small Open Economy: The Case of the Canadian Dollar
Staff Working Paper 2005-21
Rasmus Fatum,
Michael R. King
The Bank of Canada is one of very few central banks that has made records of the intraday timing of its intervention operations available to researchers.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Exchange rates,
Financial markets
JEL Code(s):
E,
E5,
E58,
F,
F3,
F31,
G,
G1,
G14,
G15
La fonction de production et les données canadiennes
Staff Working Paper 2005-20
Patrick Perrier
This study has two aspects. First, the author examines the theoretical properties of the constant elasticity of substitution (CES) production function and the implications of this formulation for the properties of a structural macroeconomic model.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Economic models
JEL Code(s):
D,
D2,
D24,
E,
E2,
E23,
O,
O4,
O40
Bank Failures and Bank Fundamentals: A Comparative Analysis of Latin America and East Asia during the Nineties using Bank-Level Data
Staff Working Paper 2005-19
Marco Arena
The author develops the first comparative empirical study of bank failures during the nineties between East Asia and Latin America using bank-level data, in order to address the following two questions: (i) To what extent did individual bank conditions explain bank failures? (ii) Did mainly the weakest banks, in terms of their fundamentals, fail in the crisis countries?
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial institutions
JEL Code(s):
G,
G2,
N,
N2
June 25, 2005
Changes in the Indicator Properties of Narrow Monetary Aggregates
Although many countries have abandoned monetary targeting in recent decades, monetary aggregates are still useful indicators of future economic activity. Past research has shown that, compared with other monetary aggregates and expressed in real terms, net M1 and gross M1 have traditionally provided superior leading information for output growth.
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Bank of Canada Review articles
Topic(s):
Monetary aggregates,
Monetary and financial indicators
June 23, 2005
A Brief Survey of Risk-Appetite Indexes
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Financial System Review articles