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• Countercyclical Bank Capital Requirement and Optimized Monetary Policy Rules

  Staff Working Paper 2013-8 Carlos De Resende, Ali Dib, René Lalonde, Nikita Perevalov

  Using BoC-GEM-Fin, a large-scale DSGE model with real, nominal and financial frictions featuring a banking sector, we explore the macroeconomic implications of various types of countercyclical bank capital regulations. Results suggest that countercyclical capital requirements have a significant stabilizing effect on key macroeconomic variables, but mostly after financial shocks.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Economic models, Financial institutions, Financial stability, International topics JEL Code(s): E, E3, E32, E4, E44, E5, G, G1, G2
• April 8, 2013

  Business Outlook Survey - Spring 2013

  Taken together, responses to the spring survey indicate that, following a recent slowing in economic activity, firms expect business conditions to remain challenging over the next 12 months.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Business Outlook Survey
• April 8, 2013

  Senior Loan Officer Survey - First-Quarter 2013

  The survey results point to a slight easing in overall business-lending conditions during the first quarter of 2013.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Senior Loan Officer Survey
• April 5, 2013

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 5 April 2013

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
• April 2, 2013

  Rebalancing the International Economic Order

  Presentation John Murray Peterson Institute for International Economics Washington, D.C.

  Deputy Governor John Murray discusses the urgent need to rotate global demand.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Presentations
• April 1, 2013

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 1 April 2013

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics