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Economics Staff

Brigitte Desroches

Principal Researcher
Mail:
Bank of Canada
234 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G9
Canada
Email:
bdesroches@bankofcanada.ca
Phone:
613 782-7657
Fax:
613 782-7658
Education:
  • M.A. Economics, Carleton University (2003)
  • B.A. Economics (Honours), McGill University (2001)
Research Interests:
  • International macroeconomics
  • Forecasting
Publications:
Refereed journals:
World Real Interest Rates: A Global Savings and Investment Perspective,
(with Michael Francis), Applied Economics, forthcoming in 2008H2.
Evaluating Threshold Effects in Consumer Sentiment,
(with Marc-André Gosselin), Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 70, April 2004.
Bank of Canada publications:
"Inflation Expectations and the Conduct of Monetary Policy: A Review of Recent Evidence and Experience"
(with Rose Cunningham and Eric Santor), Bank of Canada Review, Spring 2010.
"Global Savings, Investment, and World Real Interest Rates",
(with Michael Francis). Bank of Canada Review, Winter 2007.
"World Real Interest Rates: A Global Savings and Investment Perspective",
(with Michael Francis), Working Paper 2007-16.
"Institutional Quality, Trade, and the Changing Distribution of World Income",
(with Michael Francis), Working Paper 2006-19.
"The Transmission of World Shocks to Emerging-Market Countries: An Empirical Analysis",
Working Paper 2004-44.
"The Usefulness of Consumer Confidence Indexes in the United States",
(with Marc-André Gosselin), Working Paper 2002-22.
"Growth and Integration: The Emergence of China and India and the Implications for Canada",
(with Michael Francis and François Painchaud). Proceedings of a conference held by the Bank of Canada, 2004.
Other Publications:
"The Transmission of World Shocks to Emerging-Market Countries: An Empirical Analysis",
Money Affairs, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, July-December 2005.
"Explicación de cómo se transmiten los choques mundiales a los países de mercados emergentes: un análisis empírico",
Monetaria, Vol. XXVIII, No. 3, July-September 2005.
"Institutional Reform, Trade and Growth: The Experiences of India and China in a Global Economy",
(with Michael Francis and Francois Painchaud). Proceedings of the International Conference on Economic Reforms in India and China, Indira Gandhi Institute, February 2005.
List of members of our economics research staff and executive in alphabetical order.