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Text Mining and the Information Content of Bank of Canada Communications
Staff Working Paper 2010-31
Scott Hendry,
Alison Madeley
This paper uses Latent Semantic Analysis to extract information from Bank of Canada communication statements and investigates what type of information affects returns and volatility in short-term as well as long-term interest rate markets over the 2002-2008 period.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Monetary policy implementation
JEL Code(s):
E,
E5,
E58,
G,
G1,
G14
November 18, 2010
Trends in Issuance: Underlying Factors and Implications
Trends in debt issuance have changed significantly over the past decade, both prior to the financial crisis and subsequently.
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Bank of Canada Review articles
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Financial system regulation and policies
Capital Requirement and Financial Frictions in Banking: Macroeconomic Implications
Staff Working Paper 2010-26
Ali Dib
The author develops a dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with an active banking sector, a financial accelerator, and financial frictions in the interbank and bank capital markets.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Business fluctuations and cycles,
Economic models,
Financial markets,
Financial stability
JEL Code(s):
E,
E3,
E32,
E4,
E44,
G,
G1
The Effect of Exchange Rate Movements on Heterogeneous Plants: A Quantile Regression Analysis
Staff Working Paper 2010-25
Ben Tomlin,
Loretta Fung
In this paper, we examine how the effect of movements in the real exchange rate on manufacturing plants depends on the plant's placement within the productivity distribution. Appreciations of the local currency expose domestic plants to more competition from abroad as export opportunities shrink and import competition intensifies.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Exchange rates,
Market structure and pricing,
Productivity
JEL Code(s):
D,
D2,
D21,
F,
F1,
L,
L1,
L16,
L6,
L60
An Assessment of the Bank of Canada's Term PRA Facility
Staff Working Paper 2010-20
Emanuella Enenajor,
Alex Sebastian,
Jonathan Witmer
This paper empirically assesses the effectiveness of the Bank of Canada's term Purchase and Resale Agreement (PRA) facility in reducing short-term bank funding pressures, as measured by the CDOR-OIS spread.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Financial stability
JEL Code(s):
E,
E5,
E58,
G,
G1,
G12,
G18
Exchange Rate Fluctuations, Plant Turnover and Productivity
Staff Working Paper 2010-18
Ben Tomlin
In a small open economy fluctuations in the real exchange rate can affect plant turnover, and thus aggregate productivity, by altering the makeup of plants that populate the market. An appreciation of the local currency increases the level of competition in the domestic market as import competition intensifies and export opportunities shrink, forcing less productive plants from the market and compelling new entrants to be more competitive than they otherwise would have been.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Exchange rates,
Market structure and pricing,
Productivity
JEL Code(s):
D,
D2,
D21,
D24,
L,
L1,
L11
International Capital Flows and Bond Risk Premia
Staff Working Paper 2010-14
Jesus Sierra
This paper studies the impact of international capital flows on asset prices through risk premia. We investigate whether foreign purchases of U.S. Treasury securities significantly contributed to the decline in excess returns on long-term bonds between 1995 and 2008.
June 9, 2010
Crude Oil Futures: A Crystal Ball?
Based on recent research, this article discusses three ways that oil-futures prices can improve our understanding of current conditions and future prospects in the global market for crude oil. First, the response of the oil-futures curve can be used to identify the persistence of oil-price shocks and to obtain an indicator of the rate at which they will diminish. Second, the spread between the current futures price and the spot price of oil can be interpreted as an indicator of the precautionary demand for oil. Third, because oil-futures prices are volatile, forecasts of the future spot price of oil using futures prices should be supplemented with other information to improve their accuracy.
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Bank of Canada Review articles
Topic(s):
Econometric and statistical methods,
Market structure and pricing
Idiosyncratic Coskewness and Equity Return Anomalies
Staff Working Paper 2010-11
Fousseni Chabi-Yo,
Jun Yang
In this paper, we show that in a model where investors have heterogeneous preferences, the expected return of risky assets depends on the idiosyncratic coskewness beta, which measures the co-movement of the individual stock variance and the market return.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Economic models,
Financial markets
JEL Code(s):
G,
G1,
G11,
G12,
G14,
G3,
G33