Staff working papers

Changes in investors' risk appetite have been used to explain a variety of phenomena in asset markets.

Operational events in the Large Value Transfer System (LVTS) almost always result in a disturbance of the regular flow of payments.

Fluctuations in the prices of various natural resource products are of concern in both policy and business circles; hence, it is important to develop accurate price forecasts.

How can policy-makers avoid large policy errors when they are uncertain about the true model of the economy?

The authors analyze the welfare implications of simple monetary policy rules in the context of an estimated model of a small open economy for Canada with traded and non-traded goods, and with sticky prices and wages.

In the United States, the Federal Reserve has a dual mandate of promoting stable inflation and maximum employment. Since the Fed directly controls only one instrument - the federal funds rate - the authors argue that the Fed's priorities continuously alternate between inflation and economic activity.

The author provides a statistical evaluation of various measures of core inflation for Canada.

The authors estimate a sticky-price dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with a financial accelerator, à la Bernanke, Gertler, and Gilchrist (1999), to assess the importance of financial frictions in the amplification and propagation of the effects of transitory shocks.

Traders using the electronic limit order book in the foreign exchange market can watch the posted price and depth of the best quotes change over the day.

Many countries prohibit large shareholdings in their domestic banks.The authors examine whether such a restriction restrains competition in a duopolistic loan market. Blockholders may influence managers' output decisions by choosing capital structure, as in Brander and Lewis (1986).