ElasticSearch Score: 7.93059
January 29, 2001
The Canadian economy continued to expand robustly in 2000 while inflation remained low.
ElasticSearch Score: 7.715449
May 20, 1997
Since the last Report, the Canadian economy has advanced broadly in line with expectations.
ElasticSearch Score: 7.6867943
Exporters frequently change their market destinations. This paper introduces a new approach to identifying the drivers of these decisions over time. Analysis of customs data from China and the UK shows most changes are driven by demand rather than supply-related shocks.
ElasticSearch Score: 7.6217823
We analyze 40 years’ worth of natural disasters using a local projection framework to assess their impact on provincial labour markets in Canada. We find that disasters decrease hours worked within a week and lower wage growth in the medium run. Our study highlights that disasters affect vulnerable workers through the income channel.
ElasticSearch Score: 7.5348783
April 15, 2004
The Canadian economy continues to adjust to developments in the global economy.
ElasticSearch Score: 7.4739037
How do changes to personal and corporate income tax rates in the United States affect its trading partners? Spillover effects from cuts in the two taxes differ. They are generally small and negative for corporate taxes, but sizable and positive for personal income taxes.
ElasticSearch Score: 7.3430023
October 18, 2007
There have been a number of significant economic and financial developments since the time of the July Monetary Policy Report Update.
ElasticSearch Score: 7.0713267
We develop a model with firm heterogeneity in importing and cross-border shopping among consumers. Exchange-rate appreciations lower the cost of imported goods, but also lead to more cross-border shopping; hence, the net impact on aggregate retail prices and sales is ambiguous.
ElasticSearch Score: 7.0559754
April 27, 2006
The Canadian economy continues to grow at a solid pace, consistent with the Bank’s outlook in the January Monetary Policy Report Update.
ElasticSearch Score: 7.0355883
This paper relaxes the Bayesian Nash equilibrium (BNE) assumption commonly imposed in empirical discrete choice games with incomplete information. Instead of assuming that players have unbiased/correct expectations, my model treats a player’s belief about the behavior of other players as an unrestricted unknown function. I study the joint identification of belief and payoff functions.