This paper first describes the Bank of Canada’s approach to the design of large-value clearing and settlement systems. It then examines the way the Bank has operated under the Payment Clearing and Settlement Act, passed by Parliament in July 1996. Through this act, the Bank was assigned...

This paper examines the major changes in the Canadian banking system since the Second World War, with special attention paid to the differences between Canadian and US developments over this period. An important difference between the countries is the nationwide branch banking arrangements in...

The financial service industry has been undergoing significant change in recent years. This paper analyzes some key developments affecting the industry and examines some important issues facing the industry and its regulators. Changes discussed include the way services are provided, the...

Many widely used models, including proportional hazards models with un- observed heterogeneity, can be written in the form (Y ) = min[ 0 X + U; C], where is an unknown increasing function, the error term U has unknown distribution function and is independent of X, C is a random censoring...

The failure of human capital theory to explain firm related effects on wages, new empirical approaches to internal labor markets, and new work on careers have all led to a recent surge in interest in how firm internal structure, and the jobs within firms, help determine wages. The least...

Thie study attempts to examine changes that have occurred in the extent of internatinal capital flows over the past three decades. In addition, the paper investigates the influence of changes in large economies interest rates on rates in smaller economies. Empirical results of the study show...