Posts

• March 27, 2023

  CARR Meeting (March 27, 2023)

  Content Type(s): Meetings Source(s): Canadian Alternative Reference Rate Working Group
• March 22, 2023

  Summary of Governing Council deliberations: Fixed announcement date of March 8, 2023

  This is an account of the deliberations of the Bank of Canada’s Governing Council leading to the monetary policy decision on March 8, 2023.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Summary of deliberations
• March 20, 2023

  Bank of Canada announces the recipients of the 2023 Fellowship Program Awards

  Learn about the recipients of the Fellowship and Governor’s Awards for 2023.

  Content Type(s): Press, Announcements Source(s): Fellowship Program
• March 19, 2023

  Coordinated Central Bank Action to Enhance the Provision of U.S. Dollar Liquidity

  The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, and the Swiss National Bank are today announcing a coordinated action to enhance the provision of liquidity via the standing U.S. dollar liquidity swap line arrangements.

  Content Type(s): Press, Announcements

• Persistent Debt and Business Cycles in an Economy with Production Heterogeneity

  Staff Working Paper 2023-17 Aubhik Khan, Soyoung Lee

  We examine the role of debt in amplifying and propagating recessions. Firms’ debt adjustment makes recessions deeper but makes expansions gradual. In particular, when the aggregate business leverage is ten percentage points above average, the half-life of the recovery doubles.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Firm dynamics, Productivity JEL Code(s): E, E2, E23, E3, E30, E32
• March 13, 2023

  Law Enforcement Award of Excellence for Counterfeit Deterrence

  The call for nominations is open until April 21, 2023.

  Content Type(s): Press, Announcements

• Cost Pass-Through with Capacity Constraints and International Linkages

  Staff Working Paper 2023-16 Reinhard Ellwanger, Hinnerk Gnutzmann, Piotr Śpiewanowski

  How are regional cost shocks passed through into global prices? We investigate the role of short-run capacity constraints and show that they can induce stark non-linearities in the pass-through. We highlight this effect for the market for ammonia, a commodity produced largely from natural gas.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Climate change, Econometric and statistical methods, Inflation and prices, International topics JEL Code(s): L, L1, L13, L6, L65, Q, Q4, Q40, Q5, Q54
• March 9, 2023

  Up To Speed, CBC Radio

  

  Carolyn Rogers, Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada
  Interview with Up to Speed on CBC Radio

  Content Type(s): Press, Media activities
• March 9, 2023

  Economic progress report: Thinking globally, acting locally

  Remarks Carolyn Rogers Manitoba Chambers of Commerce Winnipeg, Manitoba

  Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers discusses the Bank’s latest interest rate decision and recent global and domestic developments, including how Canada’s economic and inflation experience compares with other countries.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks Research Topic(s): Domestic demand and components, Firm dynamics, Inflation and prices, Inflation targets, Interest rates, International topics, Labour markets, Monetary policy, Price stability, Recent economic and financial developments
• March 9, 2023

  CFEC Meeting (March 9, 2023)

  State Street

  Content Type(s): Meetings Source(s): Canadian Foreign Exchange Committee