Supplemental material for peer-reviewed article published in Quantitative Economics. When citing this dataset, please also cite the associated article. A sample Publicati[...]

The data and programs replicate tables and figures from "Consumer credit usage in Canada during the coronavirus pandemic", by Ho, Morin, Paarsch and Huynh. Please see the[...]

The recent COVID‐19 pandemic has devastated economies worldwide. Using detailed, monthly data from a major consumer credit reporting agency in Canada, we have examined in[...]

Analyzing International Monetary Fund (IMF) data, we find that overly optimistic growth expectations for a country induce economic contractions a few years later. To isol[...]

This paper provides evidence of the quality of private sector forecasts of the budget balance between 1993 and 2009 for a sample of 29 countries, grouped into advanced an[...]

This paper proposes a probabilistic model based on comovements and nonlinearities useful to assess the type of shock affecting each phase of the business cycle. By provid[...]

The authors investigate financial spillovers across countries with an emphasis on the effect of shocks to financial conditions in the United States on financial condition[...]

To complement its existing set of tools to analyze and forecast developments in the global economy, the Bank of Canada recently developed a version of the Global Projecti[...]

This paper examines the transmission of U.S. real and financial shocks to Canada and, in particular, the role of financial frictions in affecting the transmission of thes[...]

This paper examines the relationship between aggregate consumer spending and credit availability in the United States. The author finds that consumer spending falls (rise[...]