We'd like to better understand the implications of globalization for the Canadian economy, including the implications for inflation in Canada. We'd like to improve our understanding of the sectoral and regional aspects of economic adjustment. And we'd like to look at how productivity and demographic change affect the economy's potential to grow.
The system dynamics of a set of networked markets and institutions can, thus, play a critical role in the amplification as well as the propagation mechanisms of shocks. The potential of interconnected markets to render more severe the reach and impact of financial crisis through contagion has been demonstrated time and again.