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• January 2, 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 28 November, the Bank of Canada announced today that it will enter into a 14-day term PRA transaction for private sector money market instruments

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• January 2, 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 28 November, the Bank of Canada announced today that it will enter into a 28-day TLF transaction

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices

• Inventories, Markups, and Real Rigidities in Menu Cost Models

  Staff Working Paper 2009-6 Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Virgiliu Midrigan

  Real rigidities that limit the responsiveness of real marginal cost to output are a key ingredient of sticky price models necessary to account for the dynamics of output and inflation. We argue here, in the spirit of Bils and Kahn (2000), that the behavior of marginal cost over the cycle is directly related to that of inventories, data on which is readily available.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Monetary policy transmission JEL Code(s): E, E3, E31, F, F1, F12

• Comparison of Auction Formats in Canadian Government Auctions

  Staff Working Paper 2009-5 Olivier Armantier, Nourredine Lafhel

  Using a rich sample of Canadian government securities auctions, we estimate the structural parameters of a share-auction model accounting for asymmetries across bidders. We find little evidence of asymmetries between participants at Canadian government nominal bond auctions.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Debt management, Financial markets, Market structure and pricing JEL Code(s): D, D4, D44, D6, D63, G, G2, G28

• Uninsurable Investment Risks and Capital Income Taxation

  Staff Working Paper 2009-3 Césaire Meh, Yaz Terajima

  This paper studies the capital accumulation and welfare implications of reducing capital income taxation in a general equilibrium economy with uninsurable investment risks.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Economic models JEL Code(s): E, E2, E21, E22, E6, E62, G, G3, G32, H, H2, H24, H25

• The Impact of Market Timing on Canadian and U.S. Firms' Capital Structure

  Staff Working Paper 2009-1 Zhaoxia Xu

  This paper studies the impact of market timing on Canadian firms' capital structure and makes a comparison with U.S. firms.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial markets, International topics JEL Code(s): G, G3, G32
• December 31, 2008

  Summary of Government of Canada - Outstanding as at 31 December 2008

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Securities and loans

• Financial Intermediation, Liquidity and Inflation

  Staff Working Paper 2008-49 Jonathan Chiu, Césaire Meh

  This paper develops a search-theoretic model to study the interaction between banking and monetary policy and how this interaction affects the allocation and welfare. Regarding how banking affects the welfare costs of inflation: First, we find that, with banking, inflation generates smaller welfare costs.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Monetary policy framework JEL Code(s): E, E4, E40, E5, E50
• December 23, 2008

  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 28 November, the Bank of Canada announced today that it will enter into a 28-day TLF transaction as follows:

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• December 21, 2008

  Credit, Asset Prices, and Financial Stress in Canada

  Financial System Review - December 2008 Miroslav Misina, Pierre St-Amant, Greg Tkacz

  Content Type(s): Publications, Financial System Review articles