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Contribution of ICT Use to Output and Labour-Productivity Growth in Canada
There is ample evidence that information and communication technologies (ICT) contributed significantly to the surge in output and labour-productivity growth in the United States in the late 1990s. -
New Phillips Curve with Alternative Marginal Cost Measures for Canada, the United States, and the Euro Area
Recent research on the new Phillips curve (NPC) (e.g., Galí, Gertler, and López-Salido 2001a) gives marginal cost an important role in capturing pressures on inflation. In this paper we assess the case for using alternative measures of marginal cost to improve the empirical fit of the NPC. -
Price Stickiness, Inflation, and Output Dynamics: A Cross-Country Analysis
The sticky-price model of aggregate fluctuations implies that countries with high trend inflation rates should exhibit less-persistent output fluctuations than countries with low trend inflation.