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• March 10, 2010

  Bank of Canada announces retirement of Deputy Governor Pierre Duguay

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today announced that Pierre Duguay, Deputy Governor, will retire from the Bank on 29 July 2010.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• March 9, 2010

  Inflation Expectations and the Conduct of Monetary Policy: A Review of Recent Evidence and Experience

  Bank of Canada Review - Spring 2010 Rose Cunningham, Brigitte Desroches, Eric Santor

  This article explores the role of inflation expectations in the conduct of monetary policy. It reviews the various measures of inflation expectations used by central banks, including surveys and market-based indicators, and considers their advantages and disadvantages. It examines the critical role of inflation expectations in the framework that central banks use to understand, forecast, and control inflation. It also looks at their role as an indicator of central bank credibility. The behaviour of inflation expectations over the past two years is analyzed and policy conclusions are offered.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review articles Topic(s): Inflation targets, Monetary policy implementation
• March 9, 2010

  Monetary Policy Rules in an Uncertain Environment

  Bank of Canada Review - Spring 2010 Gino Cateau, Stephen Murchison

  This article examines recent research on the influence of various forms of economic uncertainty on the performance of different classes of monetary policy rules: from simple rules to fully optimal monetary policy under commitment. The authors explain why uncertainty matters in the design of monetary policy rules and provide quantitative examples from the recent literature. They also present results for several policy rules in ToTEM, the Bank of Canada's main model for projection and analysis, including rules that respond to price level, rather than to inflation.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review articles Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Economic models, Monetary policy and uncertainty, Monetary policy framework
• March 9, 2010

  An Uncertain Past: Data Revisions and Monetary Policy in Canada

  Bank of Canada Review - Spring 2010 Greg Tkacz

  Many important economic variables are subject to revision. This article explains how, when, and why such revisions occur; how revisions to Canadian gross domestic product (GDP) compare with GDP revisions in some other countries; which GDP components are subject to the largest revisions; and how data revisions can affect policy decisions. The author finds that revisions to Canadian GDP tend to be smaller, on average, than those of some other countries, and that among the GDP components, exports and imports are most heavily revised.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review articles Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Monetary policy and uncertainty
• March 9, 2010

  Bank of Canada Review - Spring 2010

  

  Discussion of recent research into three ways that oil-futures prices can improve our understanding of current conditions and future prospects in the global market for crude oil; inflation expectations and the conduct of monetary policy: a review of recent evidence and experience; examination of the influence of various forms of economic uncertainty on the performance of different classes of monetary policy rules; how, when, and why such revisions to many important economic variables occur.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review

• Introducing the Bank of Canada's Projection Model for the Global Economy

  Technical Report No. 99 Jeannine Bailliu, Patrick Blagrave, James Rossiter

  To complement its existing set of tools to analyze and forecast developments in the global economy, the Bank of Canada recently developed a version of the Global Projection Model (GPM) jointly with staff at the International Monetary Fund.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Technical reports Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Economic models, International topics JEL Code(s): C, C6, C68, E, E2, E27, E3, E37, F, F0, F01
• March 6, 2010

  By All Accounts

  

  By All Accounts is the fifth and final book in the Bank's souvenir history series. This volume presents a portrait of the Bank from the perspective of outside observers, showing how Canadians have perceived the performance of their central bank over the decades through the eyes of those who monitor its work on the public's behalf.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Books and monographs, Souvenir books
• March 4, 2010

  Summary of Comments - 2010-11 Debt Strategy Consultations

  Today, a Summary of Comments on the Debt Strategy Consultations for 2010-11 is being published on the Bank of Canada's website in conjunction with the release of the government's Debt Management Strategy for 2010-11 on the Department of Finance's website.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• March 4, 2010

  Bank of Canada to Issue New Bank Notes

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  As announced in today's federal budget, in 2011 the Bank of Canada will begin to issue a new series of bank notes printed on a polymer material.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• March 2, 2010

  Bank of Canada maintains overnight rate target at 1/4 per cent and reiterates conditional commitment to hold current policy rate until the end of the second quarter of 2010

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1/4 per cent.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases