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Risk scenarios and macroeconomic forecasts / Kevin Moran, Stéphane Surprenant, Dalibor Stevanovic.FB3-5/2025-28E-PDF

"This paper discusses the usefulness of risk scenarios—forecasts conditional on specific future paths for economic variables and shocks—for monitoring the Canadian economy. To do so, we use a vector autoregressive (VAR) approach to produce macroeconomic forecasts conditional on four risk scenarios: high oil prices, a US recession, a tight labor market, and a restrictive monetary policy. The results show that these scenarios represent significant risk factors for the evolution of the Canadian economy. In particular, the high-oil-price scenario is beneficial for the Canadian economy, while a US recession induces a significant slowdown. The very tight labor market scenario leads to additional price increases relative to an unconditional forecast, and the restrictive monetary policy scenario increases the unemployment rate while lowering the inflation rate slightly"--Abstract, page i.

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Department/Agency
  • Bank of Canada, issuing body.
TitleRisk scenarios and macroeconomic forecasts / Kevin Moran, Stéphane Surprenant, Dalibor Stevanovic.
Series title
  • Staff working paper = Document de travail du personnel, 1701-9397 ; 2025-28
Publication typeMonograph - View Master Record
Language[English]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • ISSN assigned to different series.
  • "Last updated: October 31, 2025."
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 30-31).
  • Includes abstracts in English and French.
Publishing information
  • [Ottawa] : Bank of Canada = Banque du Canada, 2025.
  • ©2025
Author / Contributor
  • Moran, Kevin, 1966- author.
Description1 online resource (i, 31 pages) : colour illustrations.
Catalogue number
  • FB3-5/2025-28E-PDF
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