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• June 15, 2000

  The Canadian Economy: Finding the Right Balance

  Remarks Gordon Thiessen Kelowna Chamber of Commerce Kelowna, British Columbia

  With the technological revolution that is currently sweeping the globe, dealing with change is a growing challenge for businesses these days. This revolution is erasing national frontiers, intensifying competition, and transforming economies everywhere.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
• June 15, 2000

  Bank of Canada Governor speaks to the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce

  Media Relations Kelowna, British Columbia

  "Low and stable inflation is good for business, good for the consumer, and good for the economy as a whole," Bank of Canada Governor Gordon Thiessen told the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce today in a luncheon speech that focused on the contribution that monetary policy makes towards an environment that supports economic activity. Mr. Thiessen […]

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• June 15, 2000

  Response to IDA Reconstitution Proposal

  The strip bond sub-committee of the Investment Dealers Association (IDA), in a letter dated June 23, 1999, has recommended that “the current ceiling on reconstitution of bonds should be removed to allow reconstitution beyond the quantity stripped by book entry, which at times may be beyond the original issue size”.

  Content Type(s): Press, Announcements

• Fractional Cointegration and the Demand for M1

  Staff Working Paper 2000-13 Greg Tkacz

  Using wavelets, the author estimates the fractional order of integration of a common long-run money-demand relationship whose parameters are obtained from a full-information maximum-likelihood procedure.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Monetary aggregates JEL Code(s): C, C1, C13, E, E4, E41

• Identifying Policy-makers' Objectives: An Application to the Bank of Canada

  Staff Working Paper 2000-11 Nicholas Rowe, James Yetman

  In this paper, we develop a new way to test hypotheses about policy-makers' targets, and we implement that test for Canadian monetary policy.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Inflation targets JEL Code(s): E, E5, E52, E6, E61
• June 1, 2000

  Price Stability and the Long-Run Target for Monetary Policy

  Proceedings of a seminar held by the Bank of Canada, June 2000 (proceedings volume, available in electronic format only)

  Content Type(s): Conferences and workshops
• June 1, 2000

  Bank of Canada Announces Appointment of Special Adviser

  Media Relations

  Professor Angela Redish of the University of British Columbia has been chosen to fill the visiting economist position of Special Adviser in the Bank of Canada for a one-year term beginning in August 2000.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases