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• June 9, 2011

  Annual Report 2010

  

  In 2010, the economic recovery became firmly entrenched. The Bank’s Annual Report provides a Message from the Governor, highlights key achievements over the year, describes the Bank’s corporate governance, presents its financial statements, and discusses financial results.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Annual Report
• June 9, 2011

  The Bank of Canada Releases Its Annual Report for 2010

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada’s Annual Report for 2010 was tabled in the House of Commons today.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• June 6, 2011

  Mitigating Systemic Risk and the Role of Central Banks

  Remarks Tiff Macklem Conférence de Montréal Montréal, Quebec

  In his address to the 17^th Annual Economic Forum of the Americas, Senior Deputy Governor Tiff Macklem discusses the G-20 financial reform agenda and the role of central banks in mitigating systemic risk.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
• June 2, 2011

  Countercyclical Capital Buffers and Basel III

  Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada contributed to an occasional paper entitled “Regulatory Reforms and Remaining Challenges” which was published by the Group of Thirty today.

  Content Type(s): Press, Announcements

• Lessons from International Central Counterparties: Benchmarking and Analysis

  Staff Discussion Paper 2011-4 Alexandre Lazarow

  Since the financial crisis, attention has focused on central counterparties (CCPs) as a solution to systemic risk for a variety of financial markets, ranging from repurchase agreements and options to swaps.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Financial markets, Financial stability, Financial system regulation and policies, Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): G, G0, G01, G1, G14, G18, G2, G28, G3, G38

• Forecasting the Price of Oil

  Staff Working Paper 2011-15 Ron Alquist, Lutz Kilian, Robert Vigfusson

  We address some of the key questions that arise in forecasting the price of crude oil. What do applied forecasters need to know about the choice of sample period and about the tradeoffs between alternative oil price series and model specifications?

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, International topics JEL Code(s): C, C5, C53, Q, Q4, Q43, Q47
• May 31, 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
• May 26, 2011

  Results of the 26 May 2011 Term Repo Operation for Balance Sheet Management Purposes

  Results of the Term Repo Operation for Balance Sheet Management Purposes

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• May 25, 2011

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

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

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices

• Real-Financial Linkages in the Canadian Economy: An Input-Output Approach

  Staff Working Paper 2011-14 Danny Leung, Oana Secrieru

  The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we provide a detailed social accounting matrix (SAM), which incorporates the income and financial flows into the standard input-output matrix, for the Canadian economy for 2004.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Economic models, Financial markets, Sectoral balance sheet JEL Code(s): C, C6, C67, D, D5, D57