Years ago, an employee at one of the regional Fed banks – who was also my graduate-school classmate – contrasted the responses to his research presentations in the United States and Canada. Whereas staff economists from the Federal Reserve System brought differing perspectives to the monetary-policy debate, their Canadian counterparts seemed to subscribe to a single “Bank of Canada view.”
再来看看加拿大央行。许多年以前，一个地区联储银行职员——同时也是我的研究生同学——对比了他的研究报告在美国和加拿大得到的回应。即使经济学家从联邦储备系统对货币政策的讨论中带来不同的观点，加拿大同行似乎也只会听取“加拿大央行的观点”。