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This book is a collection of articles written by international members of the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies, a scientific organization dedicated to the development of studies on India from an interdisciplinary perspective, and which seeks to promote cultural and scientific relations between India and Spain. It covers many areas of the Humanities such as literature, film studies, history, and literary theory from an Indo-Canadian perspective. The book is divided into

Discover the many themes and movements that have shaped Canada's visual arts landscape since 1968. Continuing the storylines from the new Canadian and Indigenous Galleries, this special exhibition invites visitors to experience more than 150 works in all media, including sculpture, painting, video art, installation, drawing and photography. From the feminist art movement of the 1970s to present-day Inuit art, the richness of the national Canadian and Indigenous contemporary art collections is on full display. Exhibition: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (03.05.2017 - 06.05.2018).

Cover -- CONTENTS -- ASSESSING HOUSE PRICES IN CANADA -- A. Introduction -- B. Static Borrowing-Capacity Approach -- C. Data and Assumptions -- D. Results -- E. Other Findings -- F. Summary and Policy Implications -- References -- FIGURES -- 1. Effect on Interest Rates on Loan-to-Income Multiple -- 2. Observed Aggregate House Prices in Canada vs. "Attainable" House Prices -- 3. Edmonton: Contribution of Interest and Income Using the SBC Model -- 4. Implied Share of Debt-Service to After-Tax Median Household Income -- 5. Closing the Valuation Gap with Stronger Income Growth -- APPENDIX -- I. Data and Additional Results -- HOW TO IMPROVE INFLATION FORECASTING IN CANADA -- A. Introduction -- B. Data -- C. Time Series Properties of Inflation -- D. Bank of Canada Staff's Inflation Forecast Errors -- E. What Went Wrong? -- F. The Output Gap and the Neutral Nominal Policy Rate in Real Time -- G. Summary and Policy Messages -- References -- FIGURES -- 1. Inflation -- 2. Inflation Persistence -- 3. Inflation Cross-Correlations -- 4. Inflation and Expectations -- 5. Inflation Forecast Errors and Contributions -- 6. Historical Shock Dompositions: Inflation and Forecast Errors -- 7. Real-Time Output Gap and Policy Rate -- 8. Recent Estimates of Neutral Policy Rate (U.S.) -- TABLES -- 1. Inflation Statistics Since 2000 -- 2. Inflation Forecast Errors -- 3. Explaining Staff's Core Inflation Forecast Errors -- APPENDIX -- I. Definitions and Model -- INTERNAL TRADE: CASE FOR LIBERALIZATION -- A. Introduction -- B. Interprovincial Versus International Trade -- C. Estimating the Costs of Internal Trade Barriers: Methodology -- D. Estimates of the Costs of Internal Trade Barriers -- E. What are the Gains from Liberalizing Internal Trade? -- F. Can the Federal Government Secure Free Internal Trade?.