Publications
"The Great Increase in Relative Wage Volatility in the United States."
with Andre Kurmann. Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 60, Issue 2, p.166-183. 2013.
"Reconciling the Divergence in Aggregate U.S. Wage Series."
with Andre Kurmann and Jay Stewart. Labour Economics, Volume 47, p. 27-41. December 2017.
"The Real-time Properties of the Bank of Canada's Staff Output Gap Estimates."
with Rodrigo Sekkel and Guillaume Poulin-Bellisle. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Volume 50, Issue 6, p. 1167-1188. September 2018.
"Changes in Monetary Regimes and the Identification of Monetary Policy Shocks: Narrative Evidence from Canada."
with Rodrigo Sekkel. Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 99, November, p. 72-87. 2018.
"Introducing the Bank of Canada Staff Economic Projections Database."
with Rodrigo Sekkel and Guillaume Poulin-Bellisle. Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 35, Issue 1, p. 114-129. 2020.
Working Papers
"Monetary Policy and Employment: Do Financial Constraints Matter?"
with Emilien Gouin-Bonenfant. October 2025 - Conditionally accepted — AEJ: Macroeconomics
"The Shift in Canadian Immigration Composition and its Effect on Wages"
with Mallory Long and Antoine Poulin-Moore. June 2025 - Revisions requested, Canadian Journal of Economics.
"Population, Housing Demand, and Labor Productivity."
with Chris Hajzler, Martin Kuncl and Alexander Ueberfeldt.
Other Publications
"Assessing the effects of higher immigration on the Canadian economy and inflation"
with Erik Ens, Xing Guo, Olena Kostyshyna, Alexander Lam, Corinne Luu, Sarah Miller, Patrick Sabourin, Joshua Slive, Temel Taskin, Jaime Trujillo, Shu Lin Wee.
Bank of Canada Staff Analytical Note 2023-17. Link.
"Potential Output and the Neutral Rate in Canada: 2023 Reassessment"
with Christopher Hajzler, Dmitry Matveev, Harlee Melinchuk, Antoine Poulin-Moore, Galip Kemal Ozhan, Youngmin Park, Temel Taskin.
Bank of Canada Staff Analytical Note 2023-6.
"Potential Output in Canada: 2020 Reassessment" (Web link)
with D. Brouillette and Julien Mcdonald-Guimond. Bank of Canada Staff Analytical Note 2020-25, October 2020.
"Potential Output in Canada: 2019 Reassessment" (Web link)
with D. Brouillette, C. Khoury, N. Kyui, J. Mollins and Y. Park. Bank of Canada Staff Analytical Note 2019-10, April 2019.
"The Complex Adjustment of the Canadian Economy to Lower Commodity Prices." (Web link; PDF).
with N. Perevalov, H. Pioro, A. Agopsowicz and D. Brouillette. Bank of Canada Staff Analytical Note 2016-1, January 2016.
Work in Progress
Employment effects of changes in non-wage benefits (with Emilien Gouin-Bonenfant)
Immigration and the macroeconomy: Evidence from Canada
Earlier Work
"La cyclicité des salaires réels au États-Unis."
M.Sc thesis, Université du Québec à Montréal. (*Won "Honorable mention" from Institut de Recherche en Économie Contemporaine (IREC) in 2007)
"The Carrot and the Stick: The business cycle implications of incentive pay in the labor search model." (September 2015). Published as Bank of Canada Staff working paper 2015-35.