May 8, 2009
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May 8, 2009
Bank of Canada Announces Details of its Term PRA Operation
In accordance with the schedule of term purchase and resale agreement (PRA) auctions announced on 21 April (see schedule), the Bank of Canada announced today that it will conduct a term PRA operation. -
May 6, 2009
Opening Statement before the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce
These are difficult economic times, with the Canadian economy being buffeted by an intense and synchronized global recession. In recent months, that global recession has been exacerbated by delays in implementing measures to restore financial stability around the world. -
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May 5, 2009
Results of the 5 May 2009 Term PRA Transaction for Private Sector Instruments
Results of today's term PRA operations. -
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Real Effects of Price Stability with Endogenous Nominal Indexation
We study a model with repeated moral hazard where financial contracts are not fully indexed to inflation because nominal prices are observed with delay as in Jovanovic & Ueda (1997). -
Heterogeneous Beliefs and Housing-Market Boom-Bust Cycles in a Small Open Economy
This paper introduces heterogeneous beliefs among households in a small open economy model for the Canadian economy. The model suggests that simultaneous boom-bust cycles in house prices, output, investment, consumption and hours worked emerge when credit-constrained mortgage borrowers expect that future house prices will rise and this expectation is neither shared by savers nor realized ex-post. -
Testing for Financial Contagion with Applications to the Canadian Banking System
The author proposes a new test for financial contagion based on a non-parametric measure of the cross-market correlation. The test does not depend on the assumption that the data are drawn from a given probability distribution; therefore, it allows for maximal flexibility in fitting into the data. -
May 1, 2009
Bank of Canada Announces Details of its Term PRA for Private Sector Instruments Operation
In accordance with the schedule of term purchase and resale agreement (PRA) auctions for private sector instruments announced on 24 April (see schedule), the Bank of Canada announced today that it will conduct a term PRA operation for private sector instruments.