Bio
Naveen Rai is a Senior Economist in the Survey and Economic Intelligence Division in the Canadian Economics Analysis Department. His work focuses on the Business Outlook Survey and researching important issues for the Canadian economy including labour markets, foreign direct investment, productivity, housing, and credit conditions. He has completed his Masters in Applied Economics and Policy Analysis from the University of Regina.
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Staff analytical notes
Shocks to a currency area can and often do have asymmetric impacts on its regions that, in the absence of perfect labour mobility, lead to gaps in relative labour market performance. Witness, for example, the effects of the 2008/09 recession and subsequent financial crisis in Europe on the dispersion of employment rates across the euro area – and to a lesser extent the United States.
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Staff discussion papers
The Business Outlook Survey (BOS) has become an important part of monetary policy deliberations at the Bank of Canada and is also well known in Canadian policy and financial circles. This paper compiles more than 20 years of experience conducting the BOS and serves as a comprehensive reference manual.
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Staff working papers
This paper seeks to understand how outward foreign direct investment (FDI) affects the productivity of Canadian firms. We estimate the impact of outward greenfield investment on measures of firm-level productivity using FDI data from roughly 2,000 Canadian firms and more than 4,000 outward FDI projects over the 2003–14 period.
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