Staff working papers provide a forum for staff to publish work-in-progress research intended for journal publication.
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result(s)
The Effect of Exchange Rate Movements on Heterogeneous Plants: A Quantile Regression Analysis
Staff Working Paper 2010-25
Ben Tomlin,
Loretta Fung
In this paper, we examine how the effect of movements in the real exchange rate on manufacturing plants depends on the plant's placement within the productivity distribution. Appreciations of the local currency expose domestic plants to more competition from abroad as export opportunities shrink and import competition intensifies.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Exchange rates,
Market structure and pricing,
Productivity
JEL Code(s):
D,
D2,
D21,
F,
F1,
L,
L1,
L16,
L6,
L60
Banks, Credit Market Frictions, and Business Cycles
Staff Working Paper 2010-24
Ali Dib
The author proposes a micro-founded framework that incorporates an active banking sector into a dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with a financial accelerator.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Business fluctuations and cycles,
Credit and credit aggregates,
Economic models,
Financial stability
JEL Code(s):
E,
E3,
E32,
E4,
E44,
G,
G1
Central Bank Haircut Policy
Staff Working Paper 2010-23
James Chapman,
Jonathan Chiu,
Miguel Molico
We present a model of central bank collateralized lending to study the optimal choice of the haircut policy. We show that a lending facility provides a bundle of two types of insurance: insurance against liquidity risk as well as insurance against downside risk of the collateral.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Central bank research,
Financial services,
Financial system regulation and policies,
Monetary policy implementation,
Payment clearing and settlement systems
JEL Code(s):
E,
E4,
E40,
E5,
E50
Liquidity Transformation and Bank Capital Requirements
Staff Working Paper 2010-22
Hajime Tomura
This paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model where asymmetric information about asset quality leads to asset illiquidity. Banking arises endogenously in this environment as banks can pool illiquid assets to average out their idiosyncratic qualities and issue liquid liabilities backed by pooled assets whose total quality is public information.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial stability,
Financial system regulation and policies
JEL Code(s):
D,
D8,
D82,
E,
E4,
E44,
G,
G2,
G21
Identifying Asymmetric Comovements of International Stock Market Returns
Staff Working Paper 2010-21
Fuchun Li
Based on a new approach for measuring the comovements between stock market returns, we provide a nonparametric test for asymmetric comovements in the sense that stock market downturns will lead to stronger comovements than market upturns.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Econometric and statistical methods,
Financial stability,
Financial system regulation and policies,
International topics
JEL Code(s):
C,
C4,
C49,
F,
F2,
F21,
G,
G1,
G15,
G19
An Assessment of the Bank of Canada's Term PRA Facility
Staff Working Paper 2010-20
Emanuella Enenajor,
Alex Sebastian,
Jonathan Witmer
This paper empirically assesses the effectiveness of the Bank of Canada's term Purchase and Resale Agreement (PRA) facility in reducing short-term bank funding pressures, as measured by the CDOR-OIS spread.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Financial stability
JEL Code(s):
E,
E5,
E58,
G,
G1,
G12,
G18
A Model of Housing Stock for Canada
Staff Working Paper 2010-19
David Dupuis,
Yi Zheng
Using an error-correction model (ECM) framework, the authors attempt to quantify the degree of disequilibrium in Canadian housing stock over the period 1961–2008 for the national aggregate and over 1981–2008 for the provinces.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Domestic demand and components
JEL Code(s):
E,
E2,
E21,
J,
J0,
J00
Exchange Rate Fluctuations, Plant Turnover and Productivity
Staff Working Paper 2010-18
Ben Tomlin
In a small open economy fluctuations in the real exchange rate can affect plant turnover, and thus aggregate productivity, by altering the makeup of plants that populate the market. An appreciation of the local currency increases the level of competition in the domestic market as import competition intensifies and export opportunities shrink, forcing less productive plants from the market and compelling new entrants to be more competitive than they otherwise would have been.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Exchange rates,
Market structure and pricing,
Productivity
JEL Code(s):
D,
D2,
D21,
D24,
L,
L1,
L11
The Transmission of Shocks to the Chinese Economy in a Global Context: A Model-Based Approach
Staff Working Paper 2010-17
Jeannine Bailliu,
Patrick Blagrave
To better understand the dynamics of the Chinese economy and its interaction with the global economy, the authors incorporate China into an existing model for the G-3 economies (i.e., the United States, the euro area, and Japan), paying particular attention to modelling the exchange rate and monetary policy in China.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Business fluctuations and cycles,
Economic models,
Exchange rate regimes,
International topics
JEL Code(s):
E,
E3,
E32,
E5,
E52,
F,
F4,
F41