May 19, 2002
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May 18, 2002
Foreign Takeovers and the Canadian Dollar: Evidence and Implications
Since 1995, acquisitions of foreign firms by Canadian residents and acquisitions of Canadian firms by foreign residents have increased. Through most of this period, the dollar has depreciated, but the cumulative net balance of foreign direct investment acquisition flows has remained close to zero. The recent upward trend in bilateral acquisition flows is part of the globalization process as firms consolidate and rationalize their operations, and is not related to the value of the Canadian dollar. Standard models of international asset pricing imply that there should not be a relationship between the Canadian exchange rate and foreign takeovers of Canadian firms because an exchange rate movement does not give foreign buyers a systematic advantage over domestic buyers. Purchases of domestic firms by foreign residents are likely to be welfare-improving. Transactions between foreign and domestic residents are voluntary, and they imply that the foreign buyers expect to obtain higher profits from the firms' assets.
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Bank of Canada Review articles
Topic(s):
Exchange rates
Entrepreneurship, Inequality, and Taxation
Staff Working Paper 2002-14
Césaire Meh
This paper confirms the conjecture that the evaluation of tax policy leads to very different conclusions once the role of entrepreneurs is considered. Contrary to previous literature, the author finds that switching from a progressive to a proportional income tax system has a negligible effect on wealth inequality in the United States.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Economic models,
Fiscal policy
JEL Code(s):
D,
D3,
D31,
E,
E6,
E62,
H,
H2,
H20,
H23
Towards a More Complete Debt Strategy Simulation Framework
Staff Working Paper 2002-13
David Bolder
An effective technique governments use to evaluate the desirability of different financing strategies involves stochastic simulation. This approach requires the postulation of the future dynamics of key macroeconomic variables and the use of those variables in the construction of a debt charge distribution for each individual financing strategy.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Debt management,
Econometric and statistical methods,
Interest rates
JEL Code(s):
C,
C0,
C5,
G,
G0
Modelling Financial Instability: A Survey of the Literature
Staff Working Paper 2002-12
Alexandra Lai
The magnitude and frequency of recent financial crises underscore the importance of understanding financial instability for the purpose of crisis prevention and crisis management.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial institutions,
Financial markets,
Financial services
JEL Code(s):
G,
G2,
G20,
G21,
G28
Risk, Entropy, and the Transformation of Distributions
Staff Working Paper 2002-11
Mark Reesor,
Don McLeish
The exponential family, relative entropy, and distortion are methods of transforming probability distributions. We establish a link between those methods, focusing on the relation between relative entropy and distortion.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Econometric and statistical methods,
Financial markets,
Market structure and pricing
JEL Code(s):
C,
C0,
C1,
D,
D8,
G,
G0
La fiabilité des estimations de l'écart de production au Canada
Staff Working Paper 2002-10
Jean-Philippe Cayen,
Simon van Norden
In this paper, we measure, with Canadian data, the scope of the revisions to real-time estimates of the output gap generated with several univariate and multivariate techniques. We also make an empirical evaluation of the usefulness of the output gap estimates for predicting inflation.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Potential output
JEL Code(s):
E,
E3,
E32
The Microstructure of Multiple-Dealer Equity and Government Securities Markets: How They Differ
Staff Working Paper 2002-9
Toni Gravelle
Although dealership government and equity securities have, on the surface, similar market structures, the author demonstrates that some subtle differences exist between them that are likely to significantly affect the way market-makers trade, and as such have an impact on the liquidity that they provide.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Debt management,
Financial markets,
Market structure and pricing
JEL Code(s):
G,
G1,
G10,
G15,
G18
Restructuring in the Canadian Economy: A Survey of Firms
Staff Working Paper 2002-8
Carolyn Kwan
The regional offices of the Bank conducted a survey of 140 Canadian companies (representing all non-government sectors of the economy) to study the effects of restructuring (defined as a major change in the way firms do business).
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Labour markets,
Productivity,
Regional economic developments
JEL Code(s):
O,
O5,
O51
Contribution of ICT Use to Output and Labour-Productivity Growth in Canada
Staff Working Paper 2002-7
Hashmat Khan,
Marjorie Santos
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.