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• August 18, 2010

  Strengthening International Capital and Liquidity Standards: A Macroeconomic Impact Assessment for Canada

  G-20 leaders have agreed on comprehensive financial sector reforms to reduce the risk of future crises and to strengthen banking systems. Raising the amount and quality of capital and liquidity that financial institutions must carry is a central component of the reforms. The G-20 is developing a set of proposals for agreement by leaders at […]

• Identifying Asymmetric Comovements of International Stock Market Returns

  Staff Working Paper 2010-21 Fuchun Li

  Based on a new approach for measuring the comovements between stock market returns, we provide a nonparametric test for asymmetric comovements in the sense that stock market downturns will lead to stronger comovements than market upturns.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Financial stability, Financial system regulation and policies, International topics JEL Code(s): C, C4, C49, F, F2, F21, G, G1, G15, G19

• Asset-Liability Management: An Overview

  Staff Discussion Paper 2010-10 Yuliya Romanyuk

  Relevant literature on asset-liability management (ALM) is reviewed and different ALM approaches are discussed that may be of interest to the Bank of Canada for the purpose of modelling the Exchange Fund Account (EFA).

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Foreign reserves management JEL Code(s): G, G1, G11

• Inventories in ToTEM

  Staff Discussion Paper 2010-9 Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Yang Zhang

  ToTEM – the Bank of Canada’s principal projection and policy-analysis model for the Canadian economy – is extended to include inventories. In the model, firms accumulate inventories of finished goods for their role in facilitating the demand for goods.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Economic models JEL Code(s): E, E3, E31, E32

• Inventories, Stockouts, and ToTEM

  Staff Discussion Paper 2010-8 Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Yang Zhang

  Inventory investment is an important component of the Canadian business cycle. Despite its small average size – less than 1 per cent of output – it exhibits volatile procyclical fluctuations, accounting for almost one-third of output variance.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Monetary policy transmission JEL Code(s): E, E3, E31, E32

• An Assessment of the Bank of Canada's Term PRA Facility

  Staff Working Paper 2010-20 Emanuella Enenajor, Alex Sebastian, Jonathan Witmer

  This paper empirically assesses the effectiveness of the Bank of Canada's term Purchase and Resale Agreement (PRA) facility in reducing short-term bank funding pressures, as measured by the CDOR-OIS spread.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial markets, Financial stability JEL Code(s): E, E5, E58, G, G1, G12, G18
• July 29, 2010

  Bank of Canada Releases 2011 Schedule of Dates for Its Policy Interest Rate Announcements

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today released its 2011 schedule of eight dates for announcing decisions on its key policy interest rate and confirmed the announcement dates for the remainder of this year.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• July 28, 2010

  Due Diligence: A Report on the Bank of Canada's Handling of Foreign Gold during World War II

  Report commissioned by the Bank, written by Professor Duncan McDowall of Carleton University and released in November 1997. The Bank also released a search aid for related files in its archives and for Department of Finance documents.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Books and monographs
• July 27, 2010

  Planning an Evolution: The Story of the Canadian Payments Association, 1980-2002

  by James F. Dingle. Outlines the history of the Association and its role in moving Canada's payments system from paper to electronic media.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Books and monographs

• A Model of Housing Stock for Canada

  Staff Working Paper 2010-19 David Dupuis, Yi Zheng

  Using an error-correction model (ECM) framework, the authors attempt to quantify the degree of disequilibrium in Canadian housing stock over the period 1961–2008 for the national aggregate and over 1981–2008 for the provinces.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Domestic demand and components JEL Code(s): E, E2, E21, J, J0, J00