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An Optimized Monetary Policy Rule for ToTEM
Staff Working Paper 2006-41
Jean-Philippe Cayen,
Amy Corbett,
Patrick Perrier
The authors propose a monetary policy rule for the Terms-of-Trade Economic Model (ToTEM), the Bank of Canada's new projection and policy-analysis model for the Canadian economy.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Economic models,
Monetary policy framework,
Monetary policy transmission
JEL Code(s):
E,
E5,
E52
Education and Self-Employment: Changes in Earnings and Wealth Inequality
Staff Working Paper 2006-40
Yaz Terajima
The author quantitatively studies the interaction between education and occupation choices and its implication for the relationship between the changes in earnings inequality and the changes in wealth inequality in the United States over the 1983–2001 period.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Economic models,
Labour markets
JEL Code(s):
D,
D3,
D31,
I,
I2,
I21,
J,
J2,
J23
October 8, 2006
Modelling Financial Channels for Monetary Policy Analysis
The Bank of Canada considers a wide range of information and analysis before making a monetary policy decision and uses carefully articulated models to produce economic projections and to examine alternative scenarios. This article describes an ongoing research agenda at the Bank to develop models in which financial variables play an active role in the transmission of monetary policy actions to economic activity. Such models can help to analyze information from the financial side of the economy and to provide an overall view of the implications of financial developments for the current economic outlook. The authors also explain how this research can help address other issues relevant to the objectives of monetary policy, including how asset-price movements should be taken into account in the monetary policy framework.
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Bank of Canada Review articles
Topic(s):
Credit and credit aggregates,
Economic models,
Monetary policy transmission
Short-Run and Long-Run Causality between Monetary Policy Variables and Stock Prices
Staff Working Paper 2006-39
Jean-Marie Dufour,
David Tessier
The authors examine simultaneously the causal links connecting monetary policy variables, real activity, and stock returns.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Monetary and financial indicators
JEL Code(s):
C,
C1,
C12,
C15,
C3,
C32,
C5,
C51,
C53,
E,
E5,
E52
Conditioning Information and Variance Bounds on Pricing Kernels with Higher-Order Moments: Theory and Evidence
Staff Working Paper 2006-38
Fousseni Chabi-Yo
The author develops a strategy for utilizing higher moments and conditioning information efficiently, and hence improves on the variance bounds computed by Hansen and Jagannathan (1991, the HJ bound) and Gallant, Hansen, and Tauchen (1990, the GHT bound).
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Market structure and pricing
JEL Code(s):
C,
C6,
C61,
G,
G1,
G12,
G13
Endogenous Borrowing Constraints and Consumption Volatility in a Small Open Economy
Staff Working Paper 2006-37
Carlos De Resende
Consumption volatility relative to output volatility is consistently higher in emerging economies than in developed economies.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
International topics
JEL Code(s):
F,
F3,
F32,
F34,
F4,
F41
Credit in a Tiered Payments System
Staff Working Paper 2006-36
Alexandra Lai,
Nikil Chande,
Sean O'Connor
Payments systems are typically characterized by some degree of tiering, with upstream firms (clearing agents) providing settlement accounts to downstream institutions that wish to clear and settle payments indirectly in these systems (indirect clearers).
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial institutions,
Financial services,
Market structure and pricing,
Payment clearing and settlement systems
JEL Code(s):
G,
G2,
G21,
L,
L1,
L12,
L13,
L2,
L22
Survey of Price-Setting Behaviour of Canadian Companies
Staff Working Paper 2006-35
David Amirault,
Carolyn Kwan,
Gordon Wilkinson
In many mainstream macroeconomic models, sticky prices play an important role in explaining the effects of monetary policy on the economy.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Inflation and prices,
Monetary policy transmission
JEL Code(s):
D,
D4,
D40,
E,
E3,
E30,
L,
L1,
L11
The Macroeconomic Effects of Non-Zero Trend Inflation
Staff Working Paper 2006-34
Robert Amano,
Steve Ambler,
Nooman Rebei
The authors study the macroeconomic effects of non-zero trend inflation in a simple dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with sticky prices.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Business fluctuations and cycles,
Economic models,
Inflation and prices,
Inflation targets
JEL Code(s):
E,
E2,
E24,
E3,
E32