F15 - Economic Integration

• Revisiting National Border Effects in Foreign Trade in Goods of Canadian Provinces

  Staff Working Paper 2015-28 Farrukh Suvankulov

  A significant body of empirical studies demonstrates sizable national border effects in foreign trade of Canadian provinces throughout the 1980s and 1990s. This paper revisits and expands the scope of the border effects analysis by estimating the border effect in trade with U.S. states as well as countries in the European Union (EU) and the G 20 using more recent data from 2001–10.

  Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): International topics JEL Code(s): F, F1, F14, F15

• Institutional Quality, Trade, and the Changing Distribution of World Income

  Staff Working Paper 2006-19 Brigitte Desroches, Michael Francis

  Conventional wisdom holds that institutional changes and trade liberalization are two main sources of growth in per capita income around the world.

  Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Development economics, International topics JEL Code(s): F, F1, F11, F15, O, O1, O11, P, P4, P48

• Les sources des fluctuations des taux de change en Europe et leurs implications pour l'union monétaire

  Technical Report No. 66 Alain DeSerres, René Lalonde

  The objective of this paper is to provide an empirical evaluation of the degree of shock asymmetry between eight European countries that would form the core of a monetary union. Given that the relevant measure is the degree of real shock asymmetry, our approach is to use the observed movement in real exchange rates as […]

  Content Type(s): Technical Reports Topic(s): Exchange rates JEL Code(s): F, F1, F15, F3, F31

• A VAR Analysis of Economic Interdependence: Canada, the United States, and the Rest of the World

  Technical Report No. 46 John Kuszczak, John Murray

  The authors use vector autoregression (VAR) modelling techniques to examine the response of the domestic economy to foreign influences and to quantify some of the concepts and relationships relating to economic interdependence. Particular attention is given to the dynamic behaviour and interactions of the U.S. and Canadian economies over the past twenty years. Extensive empirical […]

  Content Type(s): Technical Reports Topic(s): International topics JEL Code(s): F, F1, F15, F4, F41