Staff working papers

• Alternative Public Spending Rules and Output Volatility

  Staff Working Paper 2002-37 Jean-Paul Lam, William Scarth

  One of the central lessons learned from the Great Depression was that adjusting government spending each year to balance the budget increases the volatility of output.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Economic models, Fiscal policy, Monetary policy transmission JEL Code(s): E, E5, E52, E58, E6, E62

• An Eclectic Approach to Estimating U.S. Potential GDP

  Staff Working Paper 2002-36 Marc-André Gosselin, René Lalonde

  The authors describe the principal results obtained from a new method applied to the estimation of potential U.S. GDP.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Econometric and statistical methods, Potential output JEL Code(s): C, C3, C32, E, E2, E23, E3, E32

• The Impact of Common Currencies on Financial Markets: A Literature Review and Evidence from the Euro Area

  Staff Working Paper 2002-35 Liliane Karlinger

  This paper reviews both the theoretical and empirical literature on the impact of common currencies on financial markets and evaluates the first three years of experience with Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Exchange rate regimes, Financial markets JEL Code(s): E, E4, E44, F, F2, F21, F3, F36, G, G1, G15

• How Do Canadian Banks That Deal in Foreign Exchange Hedge Their Exposure to Risk?

  Staff Working Paper 2002-34 Chris D'Souza

  This paper examines the daily hedging and risk-management practices of financial intermediaries in the Canadian foreign exchange (FX) market.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial markets, Market structure and pricing JEL Code(s): F, F3, F31, G, G1, G14, G2, G21

• Alternative Trading Systems: Does One Shoe Fit All?

  Staff Working Paper 2002-33 Nicolas Audet, Toni Gravelle, Jing Yang

  This paper examines the factors that lead liquidity-motivated investors to choose the type of market structure they prefer.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial markets JEL Code(s): G, G1, G10, G14, G18

• Labour Markets, Liquidity, and Monetary Policy Regimes

  Staff Working Paper 2002-32 David Andolfatto, Scott Hendry, Kevin Moran

  We develop an equilibrium model of the monetary policy transmission mechanism that highlights information frictions in the market for money and search frictions in the market for labour.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Monetary policy and uncertainty, Monetary policy transmission JEL Code(s): E, E4, E5

• Supply Shocks and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics: Canadian Evidence

  Staff Working Paper 2002-31 Céline Gauthier, David Tessier

  In this paper, we study the impact of supply shocks on the Canadian real exchange rate. We specify a structural vector-error-correction model that links the real exchange rate to different fundamentals.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Exchange rates JEL Code(s): C, C3, C32, F, F3, F31