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• March 6, 2009

  Bank of Canada Announces Details of its Term PRA Facility for Private Sector Money Market Instruments

  In accordance with the schedule of term purchase and resale agreement (PRA) auctions for private sector money market instruments announced on 20 January.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• March 6, 2009

  Bank of Canada Announces Revised Schedules of Bank of Canada Liquidity Operations Commencing the Week of 16 March 2009

  The following are revised schedules of the Bank of Canada liquidity operations commencing the week of 16 March 2009.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• March 6, 2009

  Bank of Canada Announces Details of its 28 Day Term Loan Facility

  In accordance with the schedule of Term Loan Facility (TLF) auctions announced on 20 January.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• March 5, 2009

  Opening Statement before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance

  Opening statement Pierre Duguay House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Ottawa, Ontario

  As we have consistently emphasized, stabilization of the global financial system is a precondition for economic recovery, both globally and in Canada. To that end, policy-makers around the globe have acted aggressively and creatively by initiating a series of unprecedented actions aimed at stabilizing the global financial system.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
• March 4, 2009

  Results for the 4 March 2009 Term Loan Facility

  The results of today's TLF operation.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• March 3, 2009

  Bank of Canada lowers overnight rate target by 1/2 percentage point to 1/2 per cent

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today announced that it is lowering its target for the overnight rate by one-half of a percentage point to 1/2 per cent.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• March 3, 2009

  Bank of Canada Announces Details of its 26 Day Term Loan Facility

  In accordance with the schedule of Term Loan Facility (TLF) auctions announced on 20 January.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• March 3, 2009

  Results of the 3 March 2009 Term PRA Transaction

  The results of today's term PRA operations.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• March 2, 2009

  Bank of Canada Announces Details of its 91 Day Term PRA Transaction

  In accordance with the schedule of term purchase and resale agreement (PRA) auctions announced on 20 January.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices

• Computing the Accuracy of Complex Non-Random Sampling Methods: The Case of the Bank of Canada's Business Outlook Survey

  Staff Working Paper 2009-10 Daniel de Munnik, David Dupuis, Mark Illing

  A number of central banks publish their own business conditions survey based on non-random sampling methods. The results of these surveys influence monetary policy decisions and thus affect expectations in financial markets. To date, however, no one has computed the statistical accuracy of these surveys because their respective non-random sampling method renders this assessment non-trivial.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Central bank research, Econometric and statistical methods, Regional economic developments JEL Code(s): C, C4, C8, C81, C9, C90