May 19, 2011
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May 19, 2011
Supplementary article: Paying with Polymer: Developing Canada’s New Bank Notes
In this article, author Charles Spencer reviews the complex process of developing the new series, which represents a dramatic change for Canada. The leading-edge security features made possible by the new substrate, the cost savings of the move to a polymer base and the environmental advantages of the new notes are also examined.
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Bank of Canada Review articles
Topic(s):
Bank notes,
Credibility,
Payment clearing and settlement systems
Bank Loans for Private and Public Firms in a Credit Crunch
Staff Working Paper 2011-13
Jason Allen,
Teodora Paligorova
Banks reliance on short-term funding has increased over time. While an effective source of financing in good times, the 2007 financial crisis has exposed the vulnerability of banks and ultimately firms to such a liability structure.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial institutions
JEL Code(s):
G,
G0,
G01,
G2,
G20
The Canadian Debt-Strategy Model: An Overview of the Principal Elements
Staff Discussion Paper 2011-3
David Bolder,
Simon Deeley
The Canadian Debt Strategy Model helps debt managers determine their optimal financing strategy. The model’s code and documentation are available to the public.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff discussion papers
Topic(s):
Debt management,
Econometric and statistical methods,
Financial markets,
Fiscal policy
JEL Code(s):
C,
C0,
G,
G1,
G11,
G17,
H,
H6,
H63
The Behaviour of Consumer Prices Across Provinces
Staff Discussion Paper 2011-2
Gordon Wilkinson
Measures of core inflation enable a central bank to distinguish price movements that are transitory and generated by non-monetary events from those that are more permanent and related to prior monetary policy decisions.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff discussion papers
Topic(s):
Inflation and prices
JEL Code(s):
E,
E3,
E31
Financial Factors and Labour Market Fluctuations
Staff Working Paper 2011-12
Yahong Zhang
What are the effects of financial market imperfections on unemployment and vacancies? Since standard DSGE models do not typically model unemployment, they abstract from this issue.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Economic models,
Financial markets,
Labour markets
JEL Code(s):
E,
E3,
E32,
E4,
E44,
J,
J6
Mixed Frequency Forecasts for Chinese GDP
Staff Working Paper 2011-11
Philipp Maier
We evaluate different approaches for using monthly indicators to predict Chinese GDP for the current and the next quarter (‘nowcasts’ and ‘forecasts’, respectively). We use three types of mixed-frequency models, one based on an economic activity indicator (Liu et al., 2007), one based on averaging over indicator models (Stock and Watson, 2004), and a static factor model (Stock and Watson, 2002).
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Econometric and statistical methods,
International topics
JEL Code(s):
C,
C5,
C50,
C53,
E,
E3,
E37,
E4,
E47
Sovereign Default Risk Premia, Fiscal Limits and Fiscal Policy
Staff Working Paper 2011-10
Huixin Bi
We develop a closed economy model to study the interactions among sovereign risk premia, fiscal limits, and fiscal policy. The stochastic fiscal limits, which measure the ability and willingness of the government to service its debt, arise endogenously from a dynamic Laffer curve.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Fiscal policy,
International topics
JEL Code(s):
E,
E6,
E62,
H,
H3,
H30,
H6,
H60
Inventories, Markups and Real Rigidities in Sticky Price Models of the Canadian Economy
Staff Working Paper 2011-9
Oleksiy Kryvtsov,
Virgiliu Midrigan
Recent New Keynesian models of macroeconomy view nominal cost rigidities, rather than nominal price rigidities, as the key feature that accounts for the observed persistence in output and inflation. Kryvtsov and Midrigan (2010a,b) reassess these conclusions by combining a theory based on nominal rigidities and storable goods with direct evidence on inventories for the U.S.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Business fluctuations and cycles,
Monetary policy transmission
JEL Code(s):
E,
E3,
E31,
F,
F1,
F12
Belief Dispersion and Order Submission Strategies in the Foreign Exchange Market
Staff Working Paper 2011-8
Ingrid Lo,
Stephen Sapp
This paper empirically examines how dispersions across investors beliefs influence traders order submission decisions in the foreign exchange market. Previous research has found that dispersion in traders beliefs regarding future macroeconomic announcements has a significant impact on both price dynamics and trading volume before the announcements in the foreign exchange and other financial markets.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Exchange rates,
Market structure and pricing
JEL Code(s):
D,
D4,
G,
G1