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Sami Alpanda
Sami Alpanda
Principal Researcher
Bank of Canada
234 Wellington St.
Ottawa, ON K1A 0G9

Sami Alpanda

Principal Researcher

About Sami Alpanda

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Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2004.
  • M.A., Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2003.
  • B.A., Economics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1998.

Research Interests

  • Macroeconomics
  • Monetary Economics
  • Financial Economics

Publications

Journal Articles

  • “Identifying the Role of Risk Shocks in the Business Cycle Using Stock Price Data.” Economic Inquiry.
  • “Taxation, Collateral Use of Land, and Japanese Asset Prices.”
    Empirical Economics 43 (2): 819–50, 2012.
  • “Forecasting Performance of an Estimated DSGE Model for the South African Economy,”
    (with Kevin Kotze and Geoffrey Woglom), South African Journal of Economics, 2011, vol. 79(1), pp. 50-67.
  • “Oil Crisis, Energy-Saving Technological Change and the Stock Market Crash of 1973-74,”
    (with Adrian Peralta-Alva), Review of Economic Dynamics, 2010, vol. 13(4), pp. 824-842.
  • “Political Monetary Cycles and a de facto Ranking of Central Bank Independence,”
    (with Adam Honig), Journal of International Money and Finance, 2010, vol. 29(6), pp. 1003-1023.
  • “The Role of the Exchange Rate in a New Keynesian DSGE Model for the South African Economy,”
    (with Kevin Kotze and Geoffrey Woglom), South African Journal of Economics, 2010, vol. 78(2), pp. 170-192.
  • “The Impact of Central Bank Independence on Political Monetary Cycles in Advanced and Developing Nations,”
    (with Adam Honig), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2009, vol. 41(7), pp. 1365-1389.

Other Publications

  • “Global Banking and the Balance Sheet Channel of Monetary Transmission.”
    (with U. Aysun), International Journal of Central Banking 8 (3): 141–75, 2012.

Other

Other Research

  • “Should Central Banks of Small Open Economies Respond to Exchange Rate Fluctuations? The Case of South Africa,”
    (with Kevin Kotze and Geoffrey Woglom), Economic Research Southern Africa Working Paper 174, March 2010.
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