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  1. Do Exchange Rates Affect the Capital-Labour Ratio? Panel Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing Industries

    Working Paper 2005-12 - Danny Leung, Terence Yuen

    Using industry-level data for Canadian manufacturing industries from 1981 to 1997, the authors find empirical evidence of a negative relationship between the capital-labour ratio and the user cost of capital relative to the price of labour.

    Topics: Exchange rates; Productivity
  2. An Analysis of Closure Policy under Alternative Regulatory Structures

    Working Paper 2005-11 - Greg Caldwell

    The author develops a theoretical model of bank closure. The regulatory decision about bank failure consists of two parts: whether to close and how to close.

    Topics: Financial Institutions
  3. Educational Spillovers: Does One Size Fit All?

    Working Paper 2005-10 - Robert Baumann, Raphael Solomon

    In a search model of production, where agents accumulate heterogeneous amounts of human capital, an individual worker's wage depends on average human capital in the searching population.

    Topics: Labour markets
  4. State Dependence in Fundamentals and Preferences Explains Risk-Aversion Puzzle

    Working Paper 2005-9 - Fousseni Chabi-Yo, René Garcia, Eric Renault

    The authors examine the ability of economic models with regime shifts to rationalize and explain the risk-aversion and pricing-kernel puzzles put forward in Jackwerth (2000).

    Topics: Financial markets; Market structure and pricing
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