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• February 21, 2013

  The G-20 Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth: Macroeconomic Coordination Since the Crisis

  Bank of Canada Review - Winter 2012-2013 Robert Lavigne, Subrata Sarker

  Since 2009, the G-20 Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth has provided a mechanism for international macroeconomic policy coordination. The Framework has had some successes, including agreement on objectives for fiscal consolidation. However, post-crisis global growth has been neither strong nor balanced. Progress has also been slow in developing credible fiscal consolidation plans in some advanced countries and in increasing exchange rate flexibility in certain emerging economies. A stronger peer review process and enhanced analysis of international spillovers would increase the Framework’s influence on member policies.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review articles Topic(s): Exchange rate regimes, Fiscal policy, International topics, Recent economic and financial developments JEL Code(s): E, E6, E61, F, F5, F53, F55
• February 21, 2013

  The U.S. Recovery from the Great Recession: A Story of Debt and Deleveraging

  Bank of Canada Review - Winter 2012-2013 Brady Lavender, Nicolas Parent

  The U.S. recovery from the Great Recession has been slow relative to other postwar-era recoveries in the United States. Encouraged by loose lending standards in the pre-crisis period, U.S. households took on unsustainable amounts of debt, making them vulnerable to adverse shocks. Subsequently, a considerable drop in asset prices forced households to repair their balance sheets. While there has been progress in household deleveraging, the government sector now needs to delever, which will restrain growth over the next few years.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review articles Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, International topics, Recent economic and financial developments JEL Code(s): E, E2, E21, E6, E60
• February 21, 2013

  Bank of Canada Review - Winter 2012-2013

  

  This issue features a summary of the Bank’s annual conference, Financial Intermediation and Vulnerabilities, which took place in October 2012, as well as two articles that present analysis of international macroeconomic coordination since the global financial crisis and the U.S. recovery from the Great Recession.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review
• February 21, 2013

  Conference Summary: Financial Intermediation and Vulnerabilities

  Bank of Canada Review - Winter 2012-2013 Jason Allen, James Chapman, Ian Christensen

  The Bank of Canada’s annual economic conference, held in October 2012, brought together experts from across Canada and around the world to discuss key issues concerning financial intermediation and vulnerabilities. The conference covered such topics as household finances and their relationship to financial stability, as well as bank regulation, securitization and shadow banking.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review articles Topic(s): Central bank research, Financial stability, Financial system regulation and policies JEL Code(s): G, G2
• February 15, 2013

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 15 February 2013

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
• February 13, 2013

  Publishing CORRA on the Family Day holiday

  The Bank’s Head Office will now be closed each year for the provincial Family Day holiday. The Canadian Overnight Repo Rate Average (CORRA) will not be published on that day.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• February 12, 2013

  Opening Statement before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance

  Opening statement Mark Carney House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Ottawa, Ontario

  Good morning. Tiff and I are pleased to be here with you today to discuss the January Monetary Policy Report, which the Bank recently published. While the global economic outlook is slightly weaker than the Bank had projected in October MPR, global tail risks have also diminished. The economic expansion in the United States is […]

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
• February 12, 2013

  Statement by G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors

  Media Relations

  We, the G7 Ministers and Governors, reaffirm our longstanding commitment to market determined exchange rates and to consult closely in regard to actions in foreign exchange markets. We reaffirm that our fiscal and monetary policies have been and will remain oriented towards meeting our respective domestic objectives using domestic instruments, and that we will not […]

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• February 11, 2013

  Financial Stability in One Country?

  Remarks Timothy Lane Weatherhead Center for International Affairs - Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts

  Deputy Governor Tim Lane discusses the cross-border implications of financial instability and financial reform.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
• February 8, 2013

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 8 February 2013

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