Government of Canada

About: Government of Canada is a government organization based out in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Monetary policy & Debt. The organization has 796 authors who have published 886 publications receiving 21366 citations. The organization is also known as: federal government of Canada & Her Majesty's Government.

The microcell land mobile radio system

Abstract: The Microcell Land Mobile Radio System concept is described in this paper. The system, while designed to meet the basic criteria of cost effective operation, provides a sophisticated level of service to land mobile radio users. Basically it employs low cost, low power base stations located at street intersections throughout the city and along roads and highways. With a total frequency spectrum of less than 8 MHz, the system can handle the voice and data communication traffic to and from all users within the coverage areas.

Assessing Use and User Needs for Content Management Systems in the Canadian Federal Public Sector

Abstract: Canadian public sector organizations require users to make use of content management systems. Symptoms of low adoption include misuse and inefficient workarounds. This research project, through the use of a survey, investigates perspectives of end users in the Canadian public sector; it focuses on assessing users' needs and incorporating their feedback. A goal for this research was to explore and interpret the challenges related to needs assessment in content management projects.

Proposed Comprehensive Canadian Space Law

Abstract: The purpose of this chapter is to contextualise the proposed comprehensive Canadian space law included in Appendix C. Following the detailed discussions of the preceding chapters (namely, on the state of space activities, international and Canadian space law, the theoretical underpinnings of regulation, the sentiments of the Canadian space community, the global regulatory trend towards the enactment of comprehensive domestic legislation related to space activities and the benefits of Canada enacting its own comprehensive space law), this chapter provides the rationale for why the specific provisions in the proposed comprehensive space law (as drafted in Appendix C) are included. Since it is intended that the proposed draft comprehensive space law will be used by Canadian legislators as a model upon which to develop and implement a real comprehensive Canadian space law, these explanatory notes are intended to provide insights into the precise choices made with respect to the law.

Inflation expectations and stability in an overlapping generations experiment with money creation

Abstract: We investigate how non-specialists form inflation expectations by running an experiment using a basic Overlapping Generations (OLG) model. The participants of the experiment are students of the University of Amsterdam, who predict inflation during 50 successive periods and are rewarded based on their accuracy. We include a central bank in the OLG model which increases the money supply at a constant rate. Participants are placed in separate OLG economies and are divided over two treatments: one with a "low" and one with a "high" money supply growth. We find that participants in the second treatment have substantially more difficulty in stabilizing inflation development by submitting accurate predictions than participants in the first treatment. However, when linear prediction rules are estimated on individual predictions, there is little difference between the two treatments. In both treatments, the most popular rules are Fundamentalist Expectations (predictions equal to the inflation sample mean) and Focal Expectations (predictions equal to a constant close to equilibrium). To verify whether participants adjust their prediction rules during the experiment, the estimated rules are checked for structural breaks. We find a surprisingly small number of structural breaks in both treatments.