Staff working papers

Over the past few years, the ability of the United States to finance its current account deficit has been facilitated by massive purchases of U.S.

The authors document the research output of 34 central banks from 1990 to 2003, and use proxies of research inputs to measure the research productivity of central banks over this period.

The authors develop and estimate an equilibrium-based model of the Canadian term structure of interest rates.

A new consistent test is proposed for the parametric specification of the diffusion function in a diffusion process without any restrictions on the functional form of the drift function.

The author provides a non-technical explanation of the role played by the exchange rate in Canada's inflation-targeting monetary policy.

Of particular concern to monetary policy-makers is the considerable unreliability of financial variables for predicting GDP growth and inflation.

The international business literature measures the link between the degree of internationalization (DOI) of a firm's activities and its performance.

The authors investigate whether the aggregation of region-specific forecasts improves upon the direct forecasting of Canadian GDP growth.

The hypothesis of intertemporal substitution in labour supply has a history of empirical failure when confronted with aggregate time-series data.

Several empirical studies suggest that exchange rate pass-through has declined in recent years in industrialized countries.