The Impact of the Global Crisis on Canada—What Do Macro-Financial Linkages Tell Us?

January 1, 2010

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Rupa Duttagupta, and N. Barrera The Impact of the Global Crisis on Canada—What Do Macro-Financial Linkages Tell Us?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed November 12, 2024

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Summary

This paper builds a Bayesian VAR estimation model of growth for Canada, by focusing specifically on the role of external and domestic financial indicators, including credit conditions. A variance decomposition shows that financial conditions explain one-third of the total variability in Canada's real GDP growth, although changes in U.S. real GDP growth still account for a larger share of volatility in Canadian growth. A macro-financial conditions index built from the VAR's impulse responses shows that U.S. real GDP growth and lending standards will increasingly bear on Canada's growth, implying that a normalization of the U.S. economic and financial conditions is key for a sustained recovery in Canada.

Subject: Domestic credit, Oil prices, Real effective exchange rates, Treasury bills and bonds, Vector autoregression

Keywords: Canada, Lending, Real GDP, Real GDP growth, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

19
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Working Paper No. 2010/005
Stock No:

WPIEA2010005
ISBN:

9781451961751
ISSN:

1018-5941

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