
Karyne B. Charbonneau
Director
- Ph.D., Princeton University (2013)
- M.A., Université de Montréal (2008)
- B.Sc. (Honors), Université de Montréal (2007)
Bio
Karyne B. Charbonneau was appointed Director of the Canadian Economic Analysis (CEA) Department’s Prices, Labour and Housing division in January 2020. In this capacity, she is primarily responsible for the evolution of the labour market and inflation in the near term.
Karyne joined the Bank in 2013 as a Senior Economist in the International Economic Analysis Department. Prior to occupying her current role, she was a Policy Advisor in CEA and provided guidance on the impact of trade policy changes on the Canadian economy.
She received her PhD in economics from Princeton University. Her research focuses on applied econometrics, international trade and labour economics.
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Staff analytical notes
Online Job Seekers in Canada: What Can We Learn from Bing Job Queries?
Labour markets in Canada and around the world are evolving rapidly with the digital economy. Traditional data are adapting gradually but are not yet able to provide timely information on this evolution.Estimating the Impacts of Tariff Changes: Two Illustrative Scenarios
We build upon new developments in the international trade literature to construct a quantitative Ricardian framework similar to Caliendo and Parro (2015) to isolate and estimate the long-run economic impacts of tariff changes.Digitalization and Inflation: A Review of the Literature
In the past few years, many have postulated that the possible disinflationary effects of digitalization could explain the subdued inflation in advanced economies. In this note, we review the evidence found in the literature. We look at three main channels.Staff discussion papers
Canada’s Experience with Trade Policy
This paper compiles the contemporary view on three major Canadian-led trade policies that have marked Canada’s economic history since Confederation: the National Policy (1879), the Canada–US Agreement on Automotive Products (Auto Pact, 1965) and the Canada–US Free Trade Agreement (FTA, 1989, including its extension to the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, 1994).A New Measure of the Canadian Effective Exchange Rate
Canada’s international competitiveness has received increasing attention in recent years as exports have fallen short of expectations and Canada has lost market share. This paper asks whether the Bank of Canada’s current effective exchange rate measure, the CERI, is still an accurate measure of Canada’s international competitiveness.Forward Guidance at the Effective Lower Bound: International Experience
Forward guidance is one of the policy tools that a central bank can implement if it seeks to provide additional monetary stimulus when it is operating at the effective lower bound (ELB) on interest rates. It became more widely used during and after the global financial crisis.Decomposing Movements in U.S. Non-Energy Import Market Shares
Country market shares of U.S. non-energy imports have changed considerably since 2002, with varying volatility across three subperiods: pre-crisis (2002–07), crisis (2007–09) and post-crisis (2009–14). In this paper, we analyze market shares for four main trading partners of the United States (Canada, Mexico, China and Japan).Staff working papers
The Trade War in Numbers
We build upon new developments in the international trade literature to isolate and quantify the long-run economic impacts of tariff changes on the United States and the global economy.Multiple Fixed Effects in Binary Response Panel Data Models
This paper considers the adaptability of estimation methods for binary response panel data models to multiple fixed effects. It is motivated by the gravity equation used in international trade, where important papers such as Helpman, Melitz and Rubinstein (2008) use binary response models with fixed effects for both importing and exporting countries.Journal publications
Refereed journals
- "Multiple fixed effects in binary response panel data models"
Econometrics Journal (2017), volume 20, pp. S1–S13.