Research & Publications

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?"
  (New version -  with Emilien Gouin-Bonenfant) 

Other Publications

• "Potential Output and the Neutral Rate in Canada: 2023 Reassessment"  (Web link)
  forthcoming.

• "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

• Monetary Policy and Demographics in Canada (with Romanos Priftis)

• 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.