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• December 29, 2014

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 29 December 2014

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
• December 23, 2014

  Banking and Financial Statistics - December 2014

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Banking and Financial Statistics

• Demographics and the Demand for Currency

  Staff Working Paper 2014-59 Geoffrey R. Dunbar

  I use data from the Bank of Canada’s Bank Note Distribution System and exploit a natural experiment offered by the timing of Easter in the Gregorian calendar to analyze the effects of demographic change for currency demand.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Bank notes, Econometric and statistical methods JEL Code(s): C, C3, C31, C36, E, E4, E41

• Addressing Household Indebtedness: Monetary, Fiscal or Macroprudential Policy?

  Staff Working Paper 2014-58 Sami Alpanda, Sarah Zubairy

  In this paper, we build a dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with housing and household debt, and compare the effectiveness of monetary policy, housing-related fiscal policy, and macroprudential regulations in reducing household indebtedness.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Economic models, Financial system regulation and policies, Housing, Monetary policy transmission JEL Code(s): E, E5, E52, E6, E62, R, R3, R38
• December 19, 2014

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 19 December 2014

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
• December 19, 2014

  Results of the 19 December 2014 Term Repo Operation for Balance Sheet Management Purposes

  Results of today's term repo for balance sheet management purposes operation.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• December 18, 2014

  Bank of Canada Announces Details of a Term Repo for Balance Sheet Management Purposes Operation

  The Bank of Canada announced today that it will conduct a Term Repo for Balance Sheet Management Purposes operation.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• December 16, 2014

  Bank of Canada publishes results of consultation on bank note design principles

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today published a summary of the comments it received in an online consultation on the principles guiding the design of the country’s bank notes.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases Research Topic(s): Bank notes

• International Spillovers of Policy Uncertainty

  Staff Working Paper 2014-57 Stefan Klößner, Rodrigo Sekkel

  Using the Baker et al. (2013) index of policy uncertainty for six developed countries, this paper estimates spillovers of policy uncertainty. We find that spillovers account for slightly more than one-fourth of the dynamics of policy uncertainty in these countries, with this share rising to one-half during the financial crisis.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods JEL Code(s): C, C3, D, D8, D80, F, F4, F42
• December 15, 2014

  Principles for Bank Note Design Consultation Data Analysis

  This report summarises the input received from Canadians about the Bank’s principles for bank note design.