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• September 20, 2013

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 20 September 2013

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
• September 18, 2013

  Returning to Natural Economic Growth

  Remarks Stephen S. Poloz Vancouver Board of Trade Vancouver, British Columbia

  Bank of Canada Governor Stephen S. Poloz discusses the preconditions for a return to natural economic growth for Canada.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
• September 18, 2013

  Bank of Canada Governor Stephen S. Poloz Discusses Canada’s Return to Natural Economic Growth

  Media Relations Vancouver, British Columbia

  Canada’s economy is moving toward the self-generating, self-sustaining growth it needs to normalize, and business investment will become increasingly solid as companies become more confident, Bank of Canada Governor Stephen S. Poloz said today in a speech in Vancouver. “Evidence suggests we are now close to the tipping point from improving confidence into expanding capacity,” […]

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• September 13, 2013

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 13 September 2013

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
• September 6, 2013

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 6 September 2013

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

• Housing and Tax Policy

  Staff Working Paper 2013-33 Sami Alpanda, Sarah Zubairy

  In this paper, we investigate the effects of housing-related tax policy measures on macroeconomic aggregates using a dynamic general-equilibrium model.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Economic models, Fiscal policy, Housing JEL Code(s): E, E6, E62, H, H2, H24, R, R3, R38

• Which Parametric Model for Conditional Skewness?

  Staff Working Paper 2013-32 Bruno Feunou, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar, Roméo Tedongap

  This paper addresses an existing gap in the developing literature on conditional skewness. We develop a simple procedure to evaluate parametric conditional skewness models. This procedure is based on regressing the realized skewness measures on model-implied conditional skewness values.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods JEL Code(s): C, C2, C22, C5, C51, G, G1, G12, G15
• September 5, 2013

  Consultation on Planned Changes to Conditions for Assets Eligible as Collateral under the Bank of Canada’s Standing Liquidity Facility (SLF)

  Following a regular review of the Bank’s policy in relation to Assets Eligible as Collateral under the Bank of Canada’s Standing Liquidity Facility (SLF), the Bank is planning to introduce new concentration limits for private sector and municipal securities.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices

• The ‘Celtic Crisis’: Guarantees, Transparency and Systemic Liquidity Risk

  Staff Working Paper 2013-31 Philipp König, Kartik Anand, Frank Heinemann

  Bank liability guarantee schemes have traditionally been viewed as costless measures to shore up investor confidence and prevent bank runs. However, as the experiences of some European countries, most notably Ireland, have demonstrated, the credibility and effectiveness of these guarantees are crucially intertwined with the sovereign’s funding risks.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial stability, Financial system regulation and policies JEL Code(s): D, D8, D89, G, G0, G01, G2, G28

• Endogenous Trade Participation with Incomplete Exchange Rate Pass-Through

  Staff Working Paper 2013-30 Yuko Imura

  This paper investigates the implications of endogenous trade participation for international business cycles, trade flow dynamics and exchange rate pass-through when price adjustments are staggered across firms.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Exchange rates, International topics JEL Code(s): F, F1, F12, F4, F44