Showing 1 - 7 of 7
Inventory investment is an important component of the Canadian business cycle. Despite its small average size – less than 1 per cent of output – it exhibits volatile procyclical fluctuations, accounting for almost one-third of output variance. Procyclicality of inventories is somewhat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003996792
ToTEM – the Bank of Canada’s principal projection and policy-analysis model for the Canadian economy – is extended to include inventories. In the model, firms accumulate inventories of finished goods for their role in facilitating the demand for goods. The model is successful in matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003996807
We show that superior performance relative to peers during stressful times identifies higher quality firms as measured by conventional historical financial statement based measures as well as default probability measures. Quality measured this way is persistent, but different from price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481163
We show that superior performance relative to peers during stressful times identifies higher quality firms as measured by conventional historical financial statement based measures as well as default probability measures. Quality measured this way is persistent, but different from price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013403125
ToTEM - the Bank of Canada's principal projection and policy-analysis model for the Canadian economy - is extended to include inventories. In the model, firms accumulate inventories of finished goods for their role in facilitating the demand for goods. The model is successful in matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289671
Inventory investment is an important component of the Canadian business cycle. Despite its small average size - less than 1 per cent of output - it exhibits volatile procyclical fluctuations, accounting for almost one-third of output variance. Procyclicality of inventories is somewhat smaller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289709
Eigenfunction and quadrature methods have been extensively used in asset pricing as a forecasting tool. In contrast, their application to systemic risk has been limited. With the advent of high frequency options panels we document a battery of measures that can be used to measure and forecast...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967021