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• April 17, 2013

  Bank of Canada maintains overnight rate target at 1 per cent

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 1 1/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 3/4 per cent.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• April 17, 2013

  Monetary Policy Report – April 2013

  

  Following growth of 1.8 per cent in 2012, the Canadian economy is expected to grow by 1.5 per cent in 2013, 2.8 percent in 2014 and 2.7 in 2015, and to reach full capacity in mid-2015, later than anticipated in the January Report.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Monetary Policy Report
• April 12, 2013

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 12 April 2013

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

• 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
• March 30, 2013

  Research Update - March 2013

  This monthly newsletter features the latest research publications by Bank of Canada economists including external publications and working papers published on the Bank of Canada’s website.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Research newsletters