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• August 19, 2011

  Opening Statement before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance

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

  Thank you for this opportunity to appear here today. Recent Economic and Financial Developments In recent weeks, several downside risks to the Bank’s July Monetary Policy Report (MPR) projection have been realised. The European sovereign crisis has intensified, the U.S. credit rating has been downgraded, and a broad range of data has signalled slower global […]

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements

• Analyzing Default Risk and Liquidity Demand during a Financial Crisis: The Case of Canada

  Staff Working Paper 2011-17 Jason Allen, Ali Hortaçsu, Jakub Kastl

  This paper explores the reliability of using prices of credit default swap contracts (CDS) as indicators of default probabilities during the 2007/2008 financial crisis.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial markets, Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): E, E4, E42, E5, E58, G, G0, G01, G2, G28

• The Impact of Operational Events on the Network Structure of the LVTS

  Staff Discussion Paper 2011-7 Tom Roberts

  The author uses a quantitative network analysis approach to assess how participants in the Large Value Transfer System (LVTS) respond to partial outages at other banks.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): C, C4, C49, G, G1, G14, G2, G21

• Real-Time Forecasts of the Real Price of Oil

  Staff Working Paper 2011-16 Christiane Baumeister, Lutz Kilian

  We construct a monthly real-time data set consisting of vintages for 1991.1-2010.12 that is suitable for generating forecasts of the real price of oil from a variety of models.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, International topics JEL Code(s): C, C5, C53, E, E3, E32, Q, Q4, Q43
• July 26, 2011

  Bank of Canada Releases 2012 Schedule for Policy Interest Rate Announcements and Monetary Policy Report Releases

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today released its 2012 schedule of eight dates for announcing decisions on its key policy interest rate and four dates for the release of its Monetary Policy Report. The Bank also confirmed the announcement dates for the remainder of this year.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• July 22, 2011

  Global Financial Reform: Maintaining the Momentum

  Remarks Tiff Macklem G-20 Workshop on 7 July 2011 Paris, France

  In his remarks entitled Global Financial Reform: Maintaining the Momentum, delivered to the G-20 workshop organized by the Australian Treasury in Paris on 7 July 2011, Senior Deputy Governor Tiff Macklem reviews the achievements toward a more resilient financial system and the challenges related to oversight and regulation, and reducing contagion and harmful spillovers.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
• July 20, 2011

  Release of the Monetary Policy Report

  Opening statement Mark Carney Ottawa, Ontario

  Press conference following the release of the Monetary Policy Report.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
• July 20, 2011

  Monetary Policy Report – July 2011

  

  The Canadian economy is projected to expand by 2.8 per cent in 2011, 2.6 per cent in 2012, and 2.1 per cent in 2013, returning to capacity in the middle of 2012. Total CPI inflation is expected to return to the 2 per cent target by the middle of 2012.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Monetary Policy Report
• July 19, 2011

  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
• June 29, 2011

  Bank of Canada Announces Extension of Expanded Swap Facility with U.S. Federal Reserve in coordination with other central banks

  The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, and the Swiss National Bank today announced an extension of the existing temporary U.S. dollar liquidity swap arrangements through 1 August 2012.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices