Publications & Research

Ian Christensen

Assistant Chief

Mail:

Bank of Canada
234 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G9
Canada

Email :

ichristensen@bankofcanada.ca

Phone:

613 782-7604

Fax:

613 782-7010

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Education:

• M.A., University of Victoria (1998)
• B.A., McGill University (1996)

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Research Interests:

• Monetary theory and policy
• Macroeconomics
• Business cycle fluctuations

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Publications:

Bank of Canada publications:

"Consumption, Housing Collateral, and the Canadian Business Cycle."
(with Paul Corrigan, Caterina Mendicino and Shin-Ichi Nishiyama) Bank of Canada Working Paper 2009-26.

"Modelling Financial Channels for Monetary Policy Analysis."
(with Ben Fung and Césaire Meh) Bank of Canada Review (Autumn 2006)

"Monetary Policy in an Estimated DSGE Model with a Financial Accelerator."
(with Ali Dib) Bank of Canada Working Paper 2006-9.

"Real Return Bonds: Monetary Policy Credibility and Short-term Inflation Forecasting."
(with Frédéric Dion and Christopher Reid) Bank of Canada Review (Autumn 2004)

"Real Return Bonds, Inflation Expectations and the Break-Even Inflation Rate."
(with Frédéric Dion and Christopher Reid) Bank of Canada Working Paper 2004-43.

Refereed publications:

"The Financial Accelerator in an Estimated New Keynesian Model",
(with Ali Dib), Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 11, No.1, p.155-178 (January 2008).

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List of members of our economics research staff and executive in alphabetical order.