The authors provide a detailed empirical analysis of Canadian city housing prices. They examine the long-run relationship between city house prices in Canada from 1981 to[...]

This paper discusses broad trends in labour force participation and part-time employment across different age groups since the Great Recession and uses provincial data to[...]

The international business cycle is very important for Latin America’s economic performance as the recent global crisis vividly illustrated. This paper investigates how c[...]

This paper attempts to provide one interpretation of the broad regional economic history of Canada since the early 1970s. As the title of the paper suggests, we believe t[...]

A number of central banks publish their own business conditions survey based on non-random sampling methods. The results of these surveys influence monetary policy decisi[...]

Since the autumn of 1997, the regional offices of the Bank of Canada have conducted quarterly consultations with businesses across Canada. These consultations, summarized[...]

The author examines the global impact of U.S. fiscal policy using the Bank of Canada's Global Economy Model (Lalonde and Muir 2007). In particular, she examines the globa[...]

This paper proposes a Markov-switching framework to endogenously identify the following: (1) regimes where economies synchronously enter recessionary and expansionary pha[...]

In this report the author considers three issues relating to regional disparities in Canada. First, the size of regional disparities in unemployment and wage rates is exa[...]

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 restructuri[...]