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Credit in a Tiered Payments System
Staff Working Paper 2006-36
Alexandra Lai,
Nikil Chande,
Sean O'Connor
Payments systems are typically characterized by some degree of tiering, with upstream firms (clearing agents) providing settlement accounts to downstream institutions that wish to clear and settle payments indirectly in these systems (indirect clearers).
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial institutions,
Financial services,
Market structure and pricing,
Payment clearing and settlement systems
JEL Code(s):
G,
G2,
G21,
L,
L1,
L12,
L13,
L2,
L22
Multinationals and Exchange Rate Pass-Through
Staff Working Paper 2006-30
Alexandra Lai,
Oana Secrieru
The authors examine the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on exchange rate pass-through in an environment where an MNE engages in Cournot (quantity) competition with domestic and foreign rivals.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Economic models,
Exchange rates,
Market structure and pricing
JEL Code(s):
F,
F2,
F23,
L,
L1,
L16
Working Time over the 20th Century
Staff Working Paper 2006-18
Alexander Ueberfeldt
From 1870 to 2000, the workweek length of employed persons decreased by 41 per cent in industrialized countries.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Economic models,
Labour markets,
Productivity
JEL Code(s):
E,
E1,
E13,
E2,
E24,
O,
O1,
O11
Order Submission: The Choice between Limit and Market Orders
Staff Working Paper 2005-42
Ingrid Lo,
Stephen Sapp
Most financial markets allow investors to submit both limit and market orders, but it is not always clear what affects the choice of order type.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Exchange rates,
Financial institutions,
Market structure and pricing
JEL Code(s):
D,
D4,
G,
G1
Intertemporal Substitution in Macroeconomics: Evidence from a Two-Dimensional Labour Supply Model with Money
Staff Working Paper 2005-30
Ali Dib,
Louis Phaneuf
The hypothesis of intertemporal substitution in labour supply has a history of empirical failure when confronted with aggregate time-series data.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Business fluctuations and cycles,
Econometric and statistical methods,
Labour markets
JEL Code(s):
C,
C5,
C52,
E,
E2,
E24,
E3,
E32,
J,
J2,
J22
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
Learning-by-Doing or Habit Formation?
Staff Working Paper 2005-15
Hafedh Bouakez,
Takashi Kano
In a recent paper, Chang, Gomes, and Schorfheide (2002) extend the standard real business cycle (RBC) model to allow for a learning-by-doing (LBD) mechanism whereby current labour supply affects future productivity.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Business fluctuations and cycles,
Econometric and statistical methods,
Economic models,
Labour markets
JEL Code(s):
C,
C5,
C52,
E,
E3,
E32,
J,
J2,
J22
Labour Market Adjustments to Exchange Rate Fluctuations: Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing Industries
Staff Working Paper 2005-14
Danny Leung,
Terence Yuen
The authors provide some of the first empirical evidence on labour market adjustments to exchange rate movements in Canadian manufacturing industries.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Exchange rates,
Labour markets
JEL Code(s):
E,
E2,
E23,
F,
F4
Educational Spillovers: Does One Size Fit All?
Staff Working Paper 2005-10
Robert Baumann,
Raphael Solomon
In a search model of production, where agents accumulate heterogeneous amounts of human capital, an individual worker's wage depends on average human capital in the searching population.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Labour markets
JEL Code(s):
I,
I2,
I29,
J,
J2,
J24,
J3,
J31