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• April 14, 2005

  Release of the Monetary Policy Report

  Opening statement David Dodge

  The Bank expects Canada's economy to grow by about 2 1/2 per cent in 2005 and 3 1/4 per cent in 2006, with growth this year and next coming primarily from strength in domestic demand. To continue to support aggregate demand, we decided to leave the target for the overnight rate unchanged at 2.5 per cent on 12 April.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
• April 14, 2005

  Monetary Policy Report – April 2005

  

  The global economy has been unfolding largely as expected, and prospects for continued robust growth are quite favourable, especially over the near term.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Monetary Policy Report
• April 12, 2005

  Bank of Canada keeps target for the overnight rate at 2 1/2 per cent

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 2 1/2 per cent. The operating band for the overnight rate is unchanged, and the Bank Rate remains at 2 3/4 per cent.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• April 4, 2005

  Business Outlook Survey - Spring 2005

  Businesses are more optimistic about the economic outlook than in the winter survey. The greater stability of the Canadian dollar in the three months since the previous survey has helped to ease concerns among exporters. Businesses continue to expect strong domestic sales.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Business Outlook Survey
• April 1, 2005

  Issues in Inflation Targeting

  Proceedings of a conference held by the Bank of Canada, April 2005 (proceedings volume, available in electronic format only)

  Content Type(s): Conferences and workshops

• Do Exchange Rates Affect the Capital-Labour Ratio? Panel Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing Industries

  Staff Working Paper 2005-12 Danny Leung, Terence Yuen

  Using industry-level data for Canadian manufacturing industries from 1981 to 1997, the authors find empirical evidence of a negative relationship between the capital-labour ratio and the user cost of capital relative to the price of labour.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Exchange rates, Productivity JEL Code(s): F, F4

• An Analysis of Closure Policy under Alternative Regulatory Structures

  Staff Working Paper 2005-11 Greg Caldwell

  The author develops a theoretical model of bank closure. The regulatory decision about bank failure consists of two parts: whether to close and how to close.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, G28

• Educational Spillovers: Does One Size Fit All?

  Staff Working Paper 2005-10 Robert Baumann, Raphael Solomon

  In a search model of production, where agents accumulate heterogeneous amounts of human capital, an individual worker's wage depends on average human capital in the searching population.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Labour markets JEL Code(s): I, I2, I29, J, J2, J24, J3, J31

• State Dependence in Fundamentals and Preferences Explains Risk-Aversion Puzzle

  Staff Working Paper 2005-9 Fousseni Chabi-Yo, René Garcia, Eric Renault

  The authors examine the ability of economic models with regime shifts to rationalize and explain the risk-aversion and pricing-kernel puzzles put forward in Jackwerth (2000).

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial markets, Market structure and pricing JEL Code(s): G, G1, G12, G13
• March 30, 2005

  Canada's Competitiveness: The Importance of Investing in Skills

  Remarks David Dodge Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning Toronto, Ontario

  Productivity plays a critical role when it comes to our national standard of living. Productivity growth is the main element that contributes to continued improvements in real incomes and overall prosperity. Rising productivity lets businesses pay higher wages, while keeping costs down, employment high, and profits coming in. That's why economists like me spend a lot of time thinking about ways to improve the productivity of our economy.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks