Tag Archives: capital formation

Resources, Investment and the Current Canadian Slowdown

February 7, 2016 · by · in Canadian economy, Livio Di Matteo, Macro, The 2008-9 recession · 4 Comments

Real GDP growth in Canada slowed down during 2015 with the drop in the price of oil and the crash in the resource sector. The economic contribution of the main resource producing provinces to Canada’s economic performance is particularly important when it comes to recent capital formation as an economic driver.

Capital Formation in Canada: The Sequel

December 6, 2011 · by · in Canadian economy, fun, Livio Di Matteo · 2 Comments

I decided to do a bit more work with my Canadian gross-fixed capital formation series for the period 1870 to 2010 to see if I could estimate a simple regression model that might explain its fluctuations.  If everything can be explained by a few simple economic variables, then the downward trend in the ratio since […]