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the 336 MW Chukha Hydel Project in Bhutan could serve as a model with regards to the transfer of risks, management of …
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From 1996 to 2015, total assets at Canadian and foreign banks operating in Canada grew four-times in size. This growth … business lines, such as wealth management or investment banking. Using data from CANSIM and a little used dataset from OSFI, I … system can be attributed to: i) a focus on retail and branch-level banking, ii) a preference for deposit-financing, and iii …
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Using a new data set from the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, I conduct an in-depth study on cost efficiency and returns to scale (RTS) in Canadian banking. I estimate a transcendental log cost function for the six largest Canadian commercial banks which account for...
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event. This is because (i) strong macroprudential regulation in Canada improves the quality of assets, (ii) given a scenario …
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costs and legal penalties. Comparing income statement items, I find that, despite higher firm concentration in Canada, the U …
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An increase in energy-cost can induce energy efficiency improvement - a reduction in energy-output ratio. There are well-established theoretical conjectures of how this can take place. As the relative energy-cost increases, it induces firms to reallocate and selectively utilize the most...
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The dramatic rise in Canada's average house price to average rent ratio has induced some commentators to argue that a …, that the currently high level of house prices may be rationalized by the low cost of financing, given the decline in …
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is decreasing in the distance of a retailer from the US-Canada border. We do not find evidence of a strong relationship …
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levels for lower earners, middle-class (MC) workers and higher earners in Canada since 1970. Formulas are developed for …
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-class (MC) and higher earners (HE) in Canada over 2000-2015. An approach is also forwarded for evaluating these changes in terms …
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