Staff working papers provide a forum for staff to publish work-in-progress research intended for journal publication.
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Information Flows and Aggregate Persistence
Staff Working Paper 2009-11
Oleksiy Kryvtsov
Models with imperfect information that generate persistent monetary nonneutrality predominantly rely on assumptions leading to substantial heterogeneity of information across price-setters. This paper develops a quantitative general equilibrium model in which the degree of heterogeneity of information is determined endogenously.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Business fluctuations and cycles,
Inflation and prices,
Monetary policy transmission
JEL Code(s):
D,
D8,
D83,
E,
E3,
E31,
E32
Computing the Accuracy of Complex Non-Random Sampling Methods: The Case of the Bank of Canada's Business Outlook Survey
Staff Working Paper 2009-10
Daniel de Munnik,
David Dupuis,
Mark Illing
A number of central banks publish their own business conditions survey based on non-random sampling methods. The results of these surveys influence monetary policy decisions and thus affect expectations in financial markets. To date, however, no one has computed the statistical accuracy of these surveys because their respective non-random sampling method renders this assessment non-trivial.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Central bank research,
Econometric and statistical methods,
Regional economic developments
JEL Code(s):
C,
C4,
C8,
C81,
C9,
C90
Inventories and Real Rigidities in New Keynesian Business Cycle Models
Staff Working Paper 2009-9
Oleksiy Kryvtsov,
Virgiliu Midrigan
Kryvtsov and Midrigan (2008) study the behavior of inventories in an economy with menu costs, fixed ordering costs and the possibility of stock-outs. This paper extends their analysis to a richer setting that is capable of more closely accounting for the dynamics of the US business cycle.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Business fluctuations and cycles,
Monetary policy transmission
JEL Code(s):
E,
E3,
E31,
F,
F1,
F12
Optimal Policy under Commitment and Price Level Stationarity
Staff Working Paper 2009-8
Gino Cateau
This paper proposes a simple analytical method to determine the stationarity of an unnormalized variable from the solution to a normalized model i.e. a model whose variables must be expressed in relative terms or must be differenced for a solution to exist.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Monetary policy framework
JEL Code(s):
E,
E5,
E52,
E58
Assessing Indexation-Based Calvo Inflation Models
Staff Working Paper 2009-7
Jean-Marie Dufour,
Lynda Khalaf,
Maral Kichian
Using identification-robust methods, the authors estimate and evaluate for Canada and the United States various classes of inflation equations based on generalized structural Calvo-type models. The models allow for different forms of frictions and vary in their assumptions regarding the type of price indexation adopted by firms.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Econometric and statistical methods,
Inflation and prices
JEL Code(s):
C,
C1,
C13,
C5,
C52,
E,
E3,
E31
Inventories, Markups, and Real Rigidities in Menu Cost Models
Staff Working Paper 2009-6
Oleksiy Kryvtsov,
Virgiliu Midrigan
Real rigidities that limit the responsiveness of real marginal cost to output are a key ingredient of sticky price models necessary to account for the dynamics of output and inflation. We argue here, in the spirit of Bils and Kahn (2000), that the behavior of marginal cost over the cycle is directly related to that of inventories, data on which is readily available.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Business fluctuations and cycles,
Monetary policy transmission
JEL Code(s):
E,
E3,
E31,
F,
F1,
F12
Comparison of Auction Formats in Canadian Government Auctions
Staff Working Paper 2009-5
Olivier Armantier,
Nourredine Lafhel
Using a rich sample of Canadian government securities auctions, we estimate the structural parameters of a share-auction model accounting for asymmetries across bidders. We find little evidence of asymmetries between participants at Canadian government nominal bond auctions.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Debt management,
Financial markets,
Market structure and pricing
JEL Code(s):
D,
D4,
D44,
D6,
D63,
G,
G2,
G28
What Accounts for the U.S.-Canada Education-Premium Difference?
Staff Working Paper 2009-4
Oleksiy Kryvtsov,
Alexander Ueberfeldt
This paper analyzes the differences in wage ratios of university graduates to less than university graduates, the education premium, in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2000. Both countries experienced a similar increase in the fraction of university graduates and a similar increase in skill biased technological change based on capital-embodied technological progress, but only the United States had a large increase in the education premium.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Labour markets,
Productivity
JEL Code(s):
E,
E2,
E24,
E25,
J,
J2,
J24,
J3,
J31
Uninsurable Investment Risks and Capital Income Taxation
Staff Working Paper 2009-3
Césaire Meh,
Yaz Terajima
This paper studies the capital accumulation and welfare implications of reducing capital income taxation in a general equilibrium economy with uninsurable investment risks.