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Are private digital currencies such as Bitcoin a substitute for physical cash? We test this hypothesis using data from the Bank of Canada’s Bitcoin Omnibus Survey. We est[...]
2024 | Journal Article | Peer-Reviewed Publications - Publications à comité de lecture |
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The data and programs replicate tables and figures from "Explaining Bitcoin ownership in Canada: Trends from 2016 to 2021", by Balutel, Engert, Henry, Huynh, and Voia. Pl[...]
2024 | Dataset | Reproducibility Package - Ensemble de données pour la reproductibilité des résultats de recherche |
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How well can a cryptocurrency serve as a means of payment? Cryptocurrencies need to overcome double‐spending by costly mining and by delaying settlement. We formalize thi[...]
2022 | Journal Article | Peer-Reviewed Publications - Publications à comité de lecture |
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We present an incomplete markets model to understand the costs and benefits of increasing government debt when an increased demand for safety pushes the natural rate of i[...]
2022 | Journal Article | Peer-Reviewed Publications - Publications à comité de lecture |
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Replication Data and Code for: "The Economics of Cryptocurrencies -- Bitcoin and Beyond"

Replication data for peer-reviewed article published in Canadian Journal [...]

2022 | Dataset | Reproducibility Package - Ensemble de données pour la reproductibilité des résultats de recherche |
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Andrade et al. analyze the data from a large panel of firms and show how sector-specific shocks erroneously influence firms’ outlooks about the aggregate economy. This pa[...]
2022 | Journal Article | Peer-Reviewed Publications - Publications à comité de lecture |
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This article studies an economy with both centralized and decentralized monetary exchanges under search frictions. A degenerate asset distribution is featured under a bro[...]
2016 | Journal Article | Peer-Reviewed Publications - Publications à comité de lecture |
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This report provides a detailed technical description of an updated version of the Terms-of-Trade Economic Model (ToTEM II), which replaced ToTEM (Murchison and Rennison [...]
2013 | Text | Technical Report - Rapport technique |
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We study the cyclical properties of sales, regular price changes and average prices paid by consumers (“effective” prices) using data on prices and quantities sold for nu[...]
2013 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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Many studies in macroeconomics argue that financial frictions do not amplify the impacts of real shocks. This finding is based on models without endogenous default on loa[...]
2013 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |