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redistribution of wealth between households and the government, between nationals and foreigners, and between households within the … properties which is what we explore in this paper. For Canada, we show that the magnitude of redistributions of an unexpected 1 … price level increase is matched by the gains of the government. Even though this redistribution is zero-sum, we observe …
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This paper examines how monetary policy affects the asymmetric effects of globalization. We build an open-economy heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian model (HANK) in which households differ in their income, wealth, and real and financial integration with international markets. We use the model to...
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policy. We study how firms form their inflation expectations using quarterly firm-level data from the Bank of Canada … structural shift specifications suggests that inflation expectations in Canada have drifted downward since the Great Recession …
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The degree to which financial constraint is binding is often not directly observable in commonly used business data sets (e.g., Compustat). In this paper, we measure and estimate the likelihood of a firm being constrained by external financing using a data set of small- and medium-sized Canadian...
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We assess the importance of downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR) in Canada using both firm- and worker-level microdata …-based survey data from the Survey of Labour Income Dynamics (SLID). MWS data cover large unionized firms in Canada, while SLID is a … rich rotating panel representative of the employed population in Canada. Combining both sources of information allows for a …
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macroprudential policy changes in Canada using a microsimulation model of mortgage demand of first-time homebuyers. Policies targeting …
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This paper considers the problem of estimating a linear model between two heavy-tailed variables if the explanatory variable has an extremely low (or high) value. We propose an estimator for the model coefficient by exploiting the tail dependence between the two variables and prove its...
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The number of workers who hold more than one job (a.k.a. multiple jobholders) has increased recently in Canada. While …
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Using highly disaggregated transaction-level trade data, we document the importance of new firmlevel trade partner relationships and the addition of new products to existing relationships in driving long-run import flows. Moreover, we find that these margins are sensitive to movements in the...
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I use firm-product-level data for Canadian online retailers to study how product scope (the average number of product categories per firm) evolved from 1999 to 2012. During this period, product scope dropped monotonically from 59 to 5 product categories. Using a theoretical model of...
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