How Do Canadian Banks That Deal in Foreign Exchange Hedge Their Exposure to Risk?
This paper examines the daily hedging and risk-management practices of financial intermediaries in the Canadian foreign exchange (FX) market.
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Alternative Trading Systems: Does One Shoe Fit All?
Staff Working Paper 2002-33
Nicolas Audet,
Toni Gravelle,
Jing Yang
This paper examines the factors that lead liquidity-motivated investors to choose the type of market structure they prefer.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Research Topic(s):
Financial markets
JEL Code(s):
G,
G1,
G10,
G14,
G18
Labour Markets, Liquidity, and Monetary Policy Regimes
Staff Working Paper 2002-32
David Andolfatto,
Scott Hendry,
Kevin Moran
We develop an equilibrium model of the monetary policy transmission mechanism that highlights information frictions in the market for money and search frictions in the market for labour.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Research Topic(s):
Monetary policy and uncertainty,
Monetary policy transmission
JEL Code(s):
E,
E4,
E5
Supply Shocks and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics: Canadian Evidence
Staff Working Paper 2002-31
Céline Gauthier,
David Tessier
In this paper, we study the impact of supply shocks on the Canadian real exchange rate. We specify a structural vector-error-correction model that links the real exchange rate to different fundamentals.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Research Topic(s):
Exchange rates
JEL Code(s):
C,
C3,
C32,
F,
F3,
F31
Inflation Expectations and Learning about Monetary Policy
Staff Working Paper 2002-30
David Andolfatto,
Scott Hendry,
Kevin Moran
Various measures indicate that inflation expectations evolve sluggishly relative to actual inflation. In addition, they often fail conventional tests of unbiasedness.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Research Topic(s):
Business fluctuations and cycles,
Economic models
JEL Code(s):
E,
E4,
E47,
E5,
E52,
E58
Exponentials, Polynomials, and Fourier Series: More Yield Curve Modelling at the Bank of Canada
Staff Working Paper 2002-29
David Bolder,
Scott Gusba
This paper continues the work started by Bolder and Stréliski (1999) and considers two alternative classes of models for extracting zero-coupon and forward rates from a set of observed Government of Canada bond and treasury-bill prices.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Research Topic(s):
Econometric and statistical methods,
Financial markets,
Interest rates
JEL Code(s):
C,
C0,
C6,
E,
E4,
G,
G1
Filtering for Current Analysis
Staff Working Paper 2002-28
Simon van Norden
This paper shows how existing band-pass filtering techniques and their extension can be applied to the common current-analysis problem of estimating current trends or cycles.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Research Topic(s):
Econometric and statistical methods,
Potential output
JEL Code(s):
C,
C1
Habit Formation and the Persistence of Monetary Shocks
Staff Working Paper 2002-27
Hafedh Bouakez,
Emanuela Cardia,
Francisco Ruge-Murcia
This paper studies the persistent effects of monetary shocks on output. Previous empirical literature documents this persistence, but standard general-equilibrium models with sticky prices fail to generate output responses beyond the duration of nominal contracts.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Research Topic(s):
Business fluctuations and cycles,
Monetary policy transmission
JEL Code(s):
E,
E3,
E4,
E5
Nominal Rigidity, Desired Markup Variations, and Real Exchange Rate Persistence
Staff Working Paper 2002-26
Hafedh Bouakez
This paper develops and estimates a dynamic general-equilibrium sticky-price model that accounts for real exchange rate persistence.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Research Topic(s):
Exchange rates,
Market structure and pricing,
Monetary policy transmission
JEL Code(s):
F,
F3,
F31,
F4,
F41
Nominal Rigidities and Monetary Policy in Canada Since 1981
Staff Working Paper 2002-25
Ali Dib
This paper develops and estimates a dynamic, stochastic, general-equilibrium model with price and wage stickiness to analyze monetary policy in Canada.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Research Topic(s):
Monetary policy framework
JEL Code(s):
E,
E3,
E31,
E32,
E5,
E52