Karyne B. Charbonneau

Karyne Charbonneau

Policy Advisor

Karyne B. Charbonneau is a Policy Advisor the Canadian Economic Analysis Department at the Bank of Canada. In this capacity, she is part of the leadership team overseeing the Bank's analysis of the Canadian economy and its research on monetary policy. Her research focuses on applied econometrics and international trade.

Prior to occupying this role, she was a Principal Economist in the Real Economic Activity Division and then in the Digital Economy and Advanced Analytics Division.

She received her PhD in economics from Princeton University.

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Policy Advisor
Canadian Economic Analysis

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

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The Trade War in Numbers

Staff Working Paper 2018-57 Karyne B. Charbonneau, Anthony Landry
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.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Recent economic and financial developments, Trade Integration JEL Code(s): F, F1, F11, F13, F14, F15, F5, F50, F6, F62, F68

Estimating the Impacts of Tariff Changes: Two Illustrative Scenarios

Staff Analytical Note 2018-29 Karyne B. Charbonneau, Anthony Landry
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.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Analytical Notes Topic(s): Recent economic and financial developments, Trade Integration JEL Code(s): F, F1, F11, F13, F14, F15, F5, F50, F6, F62, F68

Canada’s Experience with Trade Policy

Staff Discussion Paper 2018-1 Karyne B. Charbonneau, Daniel de Munnik, Laura Murphy
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).
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Discussion Papers Topic(s): International topics, Trade Integration JEL Code(s): F, F1, F13, N, N7, N71, N72

Digitalization and Inflation: A Review of the Literature

Staff Analytical Note 2017-20 Karyne B. Charbonneau, Alexa Evans, Subrata Sarker, Lena Suchanek
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.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Analytical Notes Topic(s): Inflation and prices, Market structure and pricing, Productivity JEL Code(s): D, D2, D22, E, E3, E31, L, L8, L81, O, O3, O33

A New Measure of the Canadian Effective Exchange Rate

Staff Discussion Paper 2016-1 Russell Barnett, Karyne B. Charbonneau, Guillaume Poulin-Bellisle
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.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Discussion Papers Topic(s): Exchange rates, International topics JEL Code(s): F, F1, F3, F31

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  • Ph.D., Princeton University (2013)
  • M.A., Université de Montréal (2008)
  • B.Sc. (Honors), Université de Montréal (2007)

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