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• April 13, 2022

  Monetary Policy Report – April 2022

  

  Canadian economic activity remains strong, and employment is robust. The Bank is forecasting growth of about 4¼% in 2022, easing to 3¼% in 2023.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Monetary Policy Report
• April 13, 2022

  TVA Nouvelles

  

  Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada
  Interview with TVA Nouvelles

  Content Type(s): Press, Media activities
• April 13, 2022

  Bloomberg News

  

  Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada
  Interview with Bloomberg News

  Content Type(s): Press, Media activities
• April 4, 2022

  Chartered banks: Home equity lines of credit (HELOCs)

  Quarter-end data on chartered bank HELOCs and related products for residential secured lending whose properties are located in Canada (excluding business loans).

  Content Type(s): Banking and financial statistics

• Exports and the Exchange Rate: A General Equilibrium Perspective

  Staff Working Paper 2022-18 Patrick Alexander, Abeer Reza

  How do a country’s exports change when its currency depreciates? Does it matter which forces drive the exchange rate deprecation in the first place? We find that this relationship varies greatly depending on what drives exchange rate movements, and we conclude that the direct relationship between the exchange rate and exports is weak for Canada.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Balance of payments and components, Business fluctuations and cycles, Exchange rate regimes, Exchange rates, International topics, Monetary policy transmission, Trade integration JEL Code(s): F, F3, F31, F32, F33, F4, F41

• What COVID-19 May Leave Behind: Technology-Related Job Postings in Canada

  Staff Working Paper 2022-17 Alejandra Bellatin, Gabriela Galassi

  COVID-19 affects technology adoption: online job postings for technology-related occupations fall less during pandemic lockdowns and pick up faster during reopenings than postings for more traditional occupations.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Econometric and statistical methods, Labour markets JEL Code(s): J, J2, J23, J24, O, O1, O14
• April 4, 2022

  Operational details for upcoming secondary market purchases of Government of Canada securities (April 11-22)

  As previously announced, the Bank of Canada (the Bank) launched on April 1, 2020 a program to purchase Government of Canada securities in the secondary market – the Government Bond Purchase Program (GBPP).

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices Source(s): Government of Canada Bond Purchase Program

• Addictive Platforms

  Staff Working Paper 2022-16 Shota Ichihashi, Byung-Cheol Kim

  We study competition for consumer attention, in which platforms can sacrifice service quality for attention. A platform can choose the “addictiveness” of its service.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Economic models JEL Code(s): D, D4, D40, L, L5, L51
• April 4, 2022

  Business Outlook Survey—First Quarter of 2022

  In the first-quarter 2022 Business Outlook Survey, reports of labour-related capacity constraints and supply chain challenges remain widespread. Given these pressures and robust demand, businesses anticipate stronger price growth—and they expect the Russian invasion of Ukraine to add more cost pressures. As public health restrictions ease, firms that were hit hard during the pandemic anticipate their sales will pick up.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Business Outlook Survey
• April 4, 2022

  Backgrounder on the Business Outlook Survey question on firms’ average expected wage increase

  Firms participating in the Business Outlook Survey (BOS) are asked several questions about labour markets. One such question is whether they expect wage growth to increase or decrease over the next 12 months. The responses to this question, combined with related confidential comments, give a picture of the state of wage pressures in the economy. This, along with wage data and several labour market indicators, inform the Bank about labour market conditions.

  Content Type(s): Background materials