Staff working papers provide a forum for staff to publish work-in-progress research intended for journal publication.
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result(s)
The Long-Term Effects of Cross-Listing, Investor Recognition, and Ownership Structure on Valuation
Staff Working Paper 2006-44
Michael R. King,
Dan Segal
The authors show that the widening of a foreign firm's U.S. investor base and the improved information environment associated with cross-listing on a U.S. exchange each have a separately identifiable effect on a firm's valuation.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
International topics
JEL Code(s):
G,
G1,
G12,
G15
Efficient Hedging and Pricing of Equity-Linked Life Insurance Contracts on Several Risky Assets
Staff Working Paper 2006-43
Alexander Melnikov,
Yuliya Romanyuk
The authors use the efficient hedging methodology for optimal pricing and hedging of equity-linked life insurance contracts whose payoff depends on the performance of several risky assets.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial markets
JEL Code(s):
D,
D8,
D81,
G,
G1,
G10,
G12
Linking Real Activity and Financial Markets: The Bonds, Equity, and Money (BEAM) Model
Staff Working Paper 2006-42
Céline Gauthier,
Fuchun Li
The authors estimate a small monthly macroeconometric model (BEAM, for bonds, equity, and money) of the Canadian economy built around three cointegrating relationships linking financial and real variables over the 1975–2002 period.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Financial stability
JEL Code(s):
C,
C5,
E,
E4
An Optimized Monetary Policy Rule for ToTEM
Staff Working Paper 2006-41
Jean-Philippe Cayen,
Amy Corbett,
Patrick Perrier
The authors propose a monetary policy rule for the Terms-of-Trade Economic Model (ToTEM), the Bank of Canada's new projection and policy-analysis model for the Canadian economy.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Economic models,
Monetary policy framework,
Monetary policy transmission
JEL Code(s):
E,
E5,
E52
Education and Self-Employment: Changes in Earnings and Wealth Inequality
Staff Working Paper 2006-40
Yaz Terajima
The author quantitatively studies the interaction between education and occupation choices and its implication for the relationship between the changes in earnings inequality and the changes in wealth inequality in the United States over the 1983–2001 period.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Economic models,
Labour markets
JEL Code(s):
D,
D3,
D31,
I,
I2,
I21,
J,
J2,
J23
Short-Run and Long-Run Causality between Monetary Policy Variables and Stock Prices
Staff Working Paper 2006-39
Jean-Marie Dufour,
David Tessier
The authors examine simultaneously the causal links connecting monetary policy variables, real activity, and stock returns.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Monetary and financial indicators
JEL Code(s):
C,
C1,
C12,
C15,
C3,
C32,
C5,
C51,
C53,
E,
E5,
E52
Conditioning Information and Variance Bounds on Pricing Kernels with Higher-Order Moments: Theory and Evidence
Staff Working Paper 2006-38
Fousseni Chabi-Yo
The author develops a strategy for utilizing higher moments and conditioning information efficiently, and hence improves on the variance bounds computed by Hansen and Jagannathan (1991, the HJ bound) and Gallant, Hansen, and Tauchen (1990, the GHT bound).
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Market structure and pricing
JEL Code(s):
C,
C6,
C61,
G,
G1,
G12,
G13
Endogenous Borrowing Constraints and Consumption Volatility in a Small Open Economy
Staff Working Paper 2006-37
Carlos De Resende
Consumption volatility relative to output volatility is consistently higher in emerging economies than in developed economies.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
International topics
JEL Code(s):
F,
F3,
F32,
F34,
F4,
F41
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