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09-13: Network Analysis and Canada's Large Value Transfer System

Lana Embree and Tom Roberts

09-12: Measures of Aggregate Credit Conditions and Their Potential Use by Central Banks

Alejandro Garcia and Andrei Prokopiw

09-11: A Financial Conditions Index for the United States

Kimberly Beaton, René Lalonde and Corinne Luu

09-10: Strengthening IMF Surveillance: An Assessment of Recent Reforms

Robert Lavigne and Lawrence Schembri

09-9: The Outlook for the Global Supply of Oil: Running on Faith?

Olivier Gervais and Ilan Kolet

09-8: The Role of Convenience and Risk in Consumers' Means of Payment

Carlos Alberto Arango and Varya Taylor

09-7: Household Debt, Assets, and Income in Canada: A Microdata Study

Cesaire Meh, Yaz Terajima, David Chen and Thomas Carter

09-6: Assessing the Implementation of the IMF's 2007 Surveillance Decision

Robert Lavigne and Garima Vasishtha

09-5: Are Commodity Prices Useful Leading Indicators of Inflation?

Calista Cheung

09-4: Relative Prices, Trading Gains, and Real GDI: The Case of Canada

Yi Zheng

09-3: Emerging Asia's Impact on Food and Oil Prices: A Model-Based Analysis

René Lalonde, Philipp Maier and Dirk Muir

09-2: Labour Shares and the Role of Capital and Labour Market Imperfections

Lena Suchanek

09-1: Canada and the IMF: Trailblazer or Prodigal Son?

Michael Bordo, Tamara Gomes and Lawrence Schembri

08-18: India and the Global Demand for Commodities: Is There an Elephant in the Room?

Michael Francis and Corinne Winters

08-17: A Survey and Risk Analysis of Selected Non-Bank Retail Payments Systems

Nikil Chande

08-16: Financial Constraints and the Cash-Holding Behaviour of Canadian Firms

Darcey McVanel and Nikita Perevalov

08-15: The Canadian Dollar and Commodity Prices: Has the Relationship Changed over Time?

Philipp Maier and Brian DePratto

08-14: The Impact of Sovereign Wealth Funds on International Financial Stability

Tamara Gomes

08-13: What To Do about Bilateral Credit Limits in the LVTS When a Closure Is Anticipated: Risk versus Liquidity Sharing among LVTS Participants

Sean O'Connor and Greg Caldwell

08-12: Merchant Acceptance, Costs, and Perceptions of Retail Payments: A Canadian Survey

Carlos Alberto Arango and Varya Taylor

08-11: Liquidity Efficiency and Distribution in the LVTS: Non-Neutrality of System Changes under Network Asymmetry

Sean O'Connor, James Chapman and Kirby Millar

08-10: A Structural VAR Approach to Core Inflation in Canada

Sylvain Martel

08-9: The Implementation of Monetary Policy in Canada

Walter Engert, Toni Gravelle and Donna Howard

08-8: The Global Effects of U.S. Fiscal Policy

Kimberly Flood

08-7: The Effects of a Disruption in CDSX Settlement on Activity in the LVTS: A Simulation Study

Lana Embree and Kirby Millar

08-6: Reforming the IMF: Lessons from Modern Central Banking

Philipp Maier and Eric Santor

08-5: China's Exchange Rate Policy: A Survey of the Literature

Robert Lafrance

08-4: Sterilized Intervention in Emerging-Market Economies: Trends, Costs, and Risks

Robert Lavigne

08-3: Understanding Productivity: A Review of Recent Technical Research

Richard Dion and Robert Fay

08-2: The Carry Trade, Portfolio Diversification, and the Adjustment of the Japanese Yen

Corinne Winters

08-1: An Overview of Carbon Markets and Emissions Trading: Lessons for Canada

Michael King

07-12: Tracking Canadian Trend Productivity: A Dynamic Factor Model with Markov Switching

Michael Dolega

07-11: Price-Level Targeting and Stabilization Policy: A Review

Steven Ambler

07-10: The Direct Effect of China on Canadian Consumer Prices: An Empirical Assessment

Louis Morel

07-9: Hedge Funds and Financial Stability: The State of the Debate

Michael King and Philipp Maier

07-8: Price-Level Targeting

Agathe Côté

07-7: A Note on Contestability in the Canadian Banking Industry

Jason Allen and Ying Liu

07-6: Asset-Price Misalignments and Monetary Policy: How Flexible Should Inflation-Targeting Regimes Be?

Jack Selody and Carolyn Wilkins

07-5: Unanticipated Defaults and Losses in Canada's Large-Value Payments System, Revisited

Devin Ball and Walter Engert

07-4: Should Central Banks Adjust Their Target Horizons in Response to House-Price Bubbles?

Meenakshi Roi and Rhys Mendes

07-3: Vulnerabilities in Defined-Benefit Pension Plans

Jack Selody

07-2-fr: Répercussions des nouvelles normes comptables sur le bilan de la Banque du Canada

Grahame Johnson and Mark Zelmer

07-2: Implications of New Accounting Standards for the Bank of Canada's Balance Sheet

Grahame Johnson and Mark Zelmer

07-1: The Zero Bound on Nominal Interest Rates: Implications for the Optimal Monetary Policy in Canada

Claude Lavoie and Hope Pioro