Staff working papers provide a forum for staff to publish work-in-progress research intended for journal publication.
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result(s)
Financial Intermediation, Liquidity and Inflation
Staff Working Paper 2008-49
Jonathan Chiu,
Césaire Meh
This paper develops a search-theoretic model to study the interaction between banking and monetary policy and how this interaction affects the allocation and welfare. Regarding how banking affects the welfare costs of inflation: First, we find that, with banking, inflation generates smaller welfare costs.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Monetary policy framework
JEL Code(s):
E,
E4,
E40,
E5,
E50
Futures Markets, Oil Prices and the Intertemporal Approach to the Current Account
Staff Working Paper 2008-48
Elif Arbatli
The intertemporal approach to the current account suggests modeling movements in the current account in a forward-looking, dynamic framework. In this framework, the current account reflects consumption smoothing of agents that lend and borrow from the rest of the world in the face of transitory shocks to income.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Balance of payments and components
JEL Code(s):
C,
C2,
C22,
F,
F2,
F21,
F3,
F32,
G,
G1,
G13
How Important Is Liquidity Risk for Sovereign Bond Risk Premia? Evidence from the London Stock Exchange
Staff Working Paper 2008-47
Ron Alquist
This paper uses the framework of arbitrage-pricing theory to study the relationship between liquidity risk and sovereign bond risk premia. The London Stock Exchange in the late 19th century is an ideal laboratory in which to test the proposition that liquidity risk affects the price of sovereign debt.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
International topics
JEL Code(s):
F,
F2,
F21,
F3,
F34,
F36,
G,
G1,
G12,
G15
Indebtedness and the Household Financial Health: An Examination of the Canadian Debt Service Ratio Distribution
Staff Working Paper 2008-46
Umar Faruqui
The household debt-to-disposable income ratio in Canada increased from 110 per cent in 1999 to 127 per cent in 2007. This increase has raised questions about the ability of households to service their increased debt if faced with a negative economic or socio-economic shock.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial stability,
Monetary and financial indicators
JEL Code(s):
D,
D1,
D11,
D14,
D3,
D39
Firm Size and Productivity
Staff Working Paper 2008-45
Danny Leung,
Césaire Meh,
Yaz Terajima
This paper examines the relationship between firm size and productivity. In contrast to previous studies, this paper offers evidence of the relationship not only from manufacturing firms, but from non-manufacturing firms as well.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Productivity
JEL Code(s):
L,
L1,
L11,
L2,
L25,
O,
O4,
O47
The Role of Foreign Exchange Dealers in Providing Overnight Liquidity
Staff Working Paper 2008-44
Chris D'Souza
This paper illustrates that dealers in foreign exchange markets not only provide intraday liquidity, they are key participants in the provision of overnight liquidity. Dealing institutions receive compensation for holding undesired inventory balances in part from the information they receive in customer trades.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Exchange rates,
Financial markets,
Market structure and pricing
JEL Code(s):
D,
D8,
D82,
F,
F3,
F31,
G,
G2,
G21
McCallum Rules, Exchange Rates, and the Term Structure of Interest Rates
Staff Working Paper 2008-43
Antonio Diez de los Rios
McCallum (1994a) proposes a monetary rule where policymakers have some tendency to resist rapid changes in exchange rates to explain the forward premium puzzle.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Exchange rates,
Interest rates,
Monetary policy transmission
JEL Code(s):
E,
E4,
E43,
F,
F3,
F31,
G,
G1,
G12,
G15
Which Bank is the "Central" Bank? An Application of Markov Theory to the Canadian Large Value Transfer System
Staff Working Paper 2008-42
Morten Bech,
James Chapman,
Rodney J. Garratt
We use a method similar to Google's PageRank procedure to rank banks in the Canadian Large Value Transfer System (LVTS). Along the way we obtain estimates of the payment processing speeds for the individual banks.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Payment clearing and settlement systems
JEL Code(s):
C,
C1,
C11,
E,
E5,
E50,
G,
G2,
G20
Are There Canada-U.S. Differences in SME Financing?
Staff Working Paper 2008-41
Danny Leung,
Césaire Meh,
Yaz Terajima
Previous surveys of Canadian and U.S. business owners suggest that access to financing in Canada may be more problematic than in the United States. Using the 2003 Survey of Small Business Financing in the United States and the 2004 Survey on Financing of Small and Medium Enterprises in Canada, this paper examines whether this perception can be better quantified.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial services
JEL Code(s):
C,
C2,
C21,
G,
G2,
G21