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Labour Market Adjustments to Exchange Rate Fluctuations: Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing Industries
Staff Working Paper 2005-14
Danny Leung,
Terence Yuen
The authors provide some of the first empirical evidence on labour market adjustments to exchange rate movements in Canadian manufacturing industries.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Exchange rates,
Labour markets
JEL Code(s):
E,
E2,
E23,
F,
F4
Efficiency and Economies of Scale of Large Canadian Banks
Staff Working Paper 2005-13
Jason Allen,
Ying Liu
The authors measure the economies of scale of Canada's six largest banks and their costefficiency over time. Using a unique panel data set from 1983 to 2003, they estimate pooled translog cost functions and derive measures of relative efficiency and economies of scale.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial institutions
JEL Code(s):
C,
C3,
C33,
D,
D2,
D24,
G,
G2,
G21
Do Exchange Rates Affect the Capital-Labour Ratio? Panel Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing Industries
Staff Working Paper 2005-12
Danny Leung,
Terence Yuen
Using industry-level data for Canadian manufacturing industries from 1981 to 1997, the authors find empirical evidence of a negative relationship between the capital-labour ratio and the user cost of capital relative to the price of labour.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Exchange rates,
Productivity
JEL Code(s):
F,
F4
An Analysis of Closure Policy under Alternative Regulatory Structures
Staff Working Paper 2005-11
Greg Caldwell
The author develops a theoretical model of bank closure. The regulatory decision about bank failure consists of two parts: whether to close and how to close.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial institutions
JEL Code(s):
G,
G2,
G21,
G28
Educational Spillovers: Does One Size Fit All?
Staff Working Paper 2005-10
Robert Baumann,
Raphael Solomon
In a search model of production, where agents accumulate heterogeneous amounts of human capital, an individual worker's wage depends on average human capital in the searching population.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Labour markets
JEL Code(s):
I,
I2,
I29,
J,
J2,
J24,
J3,
J31
State Dependence in Fundamentals and Preferences Explains Risk-Aversion Puzzle
Staff Working Paper 2005-9
Fousseni Chabi-Yo,
René Garcia,
Eric Renault
The authors examine the ability of economic models with regime shifts to rationalize and explain the risk-aversion and pricing-kernel puzzles put forward in Jackwerth (2000).
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Market structure and pricing
JEL Code(s):
G,
G1,
G12,
G13
Recent Developments in Self-Employment in Canada
Staff Working Paper 2005-8
Nadja Kamhi,
Danny Leung
The authors document the recent evolution of the self-employment rate in Canada. Between 1987 and 1998, the self-employment rate rose 3.5 percentage points from 13.8 per cent to 17.3 per cent.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Labour markets
JEL Code(s):
J,
J2,
J23,
J24
Determinants of Borrowing Limits on Credit Cards
Staff Working Paper 2005-7
Shubhasis Dey,
Gene Mumy
The difference between actual borrowings and borrowing limits alone generates information asymmetry in the credit card market.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Econometric and statistical methods,
Market structure and pricing
JEL Code(s):
C,
C3,
D,
D4,
D8,
D82
Monetary Policy under Model and Data-Parameter Uncertainty
Staff Working Paper 2005-6
Gino Cateau
Policy-makers in the United States over the past 15 to 20 years seem to have been cautious in setting policy: empirical estimates of monetary policy rules such as Taylor's (1993) rule are much less aggressive than those derived from optimizing models.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Monetary policy and uncertainty
JEL Code(s):
D,
D8,
D81,
E,
E5,
E58