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1986-01-01
Purvis, Douglas D., Smith, Constance E.
This study takes as its basic premise that, although monetary policy in Canada during the post-second World War period has been extensively documented and analyzed, the broad strategies and outcomes of fiscal policy are not as well documented or understood. As a result, a large part of the study...
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Further Reflections on Alberta's Capital Spending and Finance: Comments on the Dodge Report to the Government of Alberta, October 2015
Download2015-12-01
David Dodge, former Governor of the Bank of Canada, submitted a report to the Government of Alberta in October 2015 on provincial capital spending and finance. That report was incorporated into the October budget documents. There are many valuable insights and recommendations in the report....
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2007
This article addresses the interrelated questions of why it is important to teach students about the nature of interdisciplinarity and how this material might be best communicated to students. It is important to define for students what is meant by disciplines and interdisciplinarity. Having...
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2002
This paper develops a twelve-step process for interdisciplinary research. While individual researchers cannot be expected to follow all of these steps in every research project, the process alerts them to the dangers of omitting steps. Moreover, communities of interdisciplinary researchers should...
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Investment and the exchange rate: Short run and long run aggregate and sector-level estimates
Download2009-09-01
Landon, Stuart, Smith, Constance E.
Aggregate and sector-level investment equations that incorporate the exchange rate are estimated for a panel of 17 OECD countries using an error correction methodology. A real currency depreciation is found to have a significant negative effect on aggregate investment in both the short run and...
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Managing uncertainty: The search for a golden discount-rate rule for defined-benefit pensions
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Landon, Stuart, Smith, Constance E.
This Commentary examines how the choice of a pension plan discount rate affects the tradeoff between the risk of holding insufficient assets to pay promised benefits and the cost of acquiring more assets. The choice of discount rate can have a dramatic effect on the value of a plan’s liabilities...