Yaz Terajima

Yaz Terajima

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Yaz Terajima is the Director of the Financial Studies Division in the Financial Stability Department. His primary research interests include macroeconomic implications of household and firm finances, banking and monetary policy. Specific topics include distributive effects of inflation across households, wealth accumulation based on occupational and educational choices, small business bankruptcy and bank leverage dynamics. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Yaz Terajima

Director
Financial Stability
Financial Studies

Bank of Canada
234 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON, K1A 0G9

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The Global Financial Cycle, Monetary Policies and Macroprudential Regulations in Small, Open Economies

Staff Working Paper 2016-38 Gregory Bauer, Gurnain Pasricha, Rodrigo Sekkel, Yaz Terajima
This paper analyzes the implications of the global financial cycle for conventional and unconventional monetary policies and macroprudential policy in small, open economies such as Canada. The paper starts by summarizing recent work on financial cycles and their growing correlation across borders.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Financial stability, Housing, International financial markets, Monetary policy framework JEL Code(s): E, E4, E42, E43, E44, E5, E52, F, F4, F41

Effects of Funding Portfolios on the Credit Supply of Canadian Banks

Staff Working Paper 2015-10 H. Evren Damar, Césaire Meh, Yaz Terajima
This paper studies how banks simultaneously manage the two sides of their balance sheet and its implications for bank risk taking and real economic activity. First, we analyze how changes in funding affect the supply of bank loans.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Financial Institutions, Financial stability, Financial system regulation and policies, Monetary policy implementation JEL Code(s): E, E5, E52, G, G2, G21

Canadian Bank Balance-Sheet Management: Breakdown by Types of Canadian Financial Institutions

Staff Discussion Paper 2012-7 David Xiao Chen, H. Evren Damar, Hani Soubra, Yaz Terajima
The authors document leverage, capital and liquidity ratios of banks in Canada. These ratios are important indicators of different types of risk with respect to a bank’s balance‐sheet management. Particular attention is given to the observations by different types of banks, including small banks that historically received less attention.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Discussion Papers Topic(s): Financial Institutions, Financial stability, Financial system regulation and policies JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, G28

16 August 2012 An Analysis of Indicators of Balance-Sheet Risks at Canadian Financial Institutions

Bank of Canada Review - Summer 2012 David Xiao Chen, H. Evren Damar, Hani Soubra, Yaz Terajima
This article examines four indicators of balance-sheet risks—leverage, capital, asset liquidity and funding—among different types of financial institutions in Canada over the past three decades. It also discusses relevant developments in the banking sector that could have contributed to the observed dynamics. The authors find that the various risk indicators decreased during the period for most of the non-Big Six financial institutions, but remained relatively unchanged for the Big Six banks. In addition, the balance-sheet risk indicators became more heterogeneous across financial institutions. The observed overall decline and increased heterogeneity follow certain regulatory changes, such as the introduction of the liquidity guidelines on funding in 1995 and the implementation of bank-specific leverage requirements in 2000. Given that these regulations required more balance-sheet risk management, they have likely contributed to the increased resilience of the banking sector.
Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review Article Topic(s): Financial Institutions, Financial stability, Financial system regulation and policies JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, G28

Leverage, Balance Sheet Size and Wholesale Funding

Staff Working Paper 2010-39 H. Evren Damar, Césaire Meh, Yaz Terajima
Some evidence points to the procyclicality of leverage among financial institutions leading to aggregate volatility. This procyclicality occurs when financial institutions finance their assets with non-equity funding (i.e., debt financed asset expansions). Wholesale funding is an important source of market-based funding that allows some institutions to quickly adjust their leverage.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Financial stability, Financial system regulation and policies, Recent economic and financial developments JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, G28

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Refereed Journals

  • "Leverage, Balance-Sheet Size and Wholesale Funding,"
    (with Evren Damar and Césaire Meh), Journal of Financial Intermediation, 22(4), 639-662 (2013).
  • "Inflation, Nominal Portfolios, and Wealth Redistribution in Canada,"
    (with Césaire A. Meh), Canadian Journal of Economics 44(4), 1369-1402 (2011).
  • "Aggregate and Welfare Effects of Redistribution of Wealth Under Inflation and Price-Level Targeting,"
    (with Césaire A. Meh and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull), Journal of Monetary Economics 57(6), 637-652 (2010).
  • "Uninsurable Investment Risks and Capital Income Taxation,"
    (with Césaire A. Meh). Annals of Finance 5(3), 521-541 (2009).

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Education

  • Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2004)
  • M.A. Claremont Graduate University (1998)
  • B.A. in economics, University of Hawaii at Hilo (1995)
  • B.A. in business, University of Hawaii at Hilo (1995)

Research Interests

  • Quantitative Macroeconomic Theory
  • Monetary Policy
  • Household and Firm Dynamics
  • Labour Economics
  • Financial Economics

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