The Bank of Canada has announced the release of the Autumn 2008 Review, a special issue focussing on “Structural Factors, Adjustment and productivity”:
This special issue covers a variety of topics dealing with how structural factors or developments affect the economic performance of an advanced economy such as Canada.
I can’t say I spent a lot of time with it, since the articles are not particularly well related to the nitty-gritty of financial markets that I follow keenly – but doubtless some regulator will come along some time and require me to correct my negligence.
The articles are:
- Productivity in Canada: Does Firm Size Matter?
- Offshoring and Its Effects on the Labour Market and Productivity: A Survey of Recent Literature
- Adjusting to the Commodity-Price Boom: The Experiences of Four Industrialized Countries
- The Effects of Recent Relative Price Movements on the Canadian Economy
- The Bank of Canada’s Senior Loan Officer Survey
It’s nice, however, to look at the titles and see that everything’s spelt properly (very rare in internationally available economic papers), but I’m afraid I must deprecate their use of “Can$” as the identifier for our currency.