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• Price-Level versus Inflation Targeting with Financial Market Imperfections

  Staff Working Paper 2008-26 Francisco Covas, Yahong Zhang

  This paper compares price-level-path targeting (PT) with inflation targeting (IT) in a sticky-price, dynamic, general equilibrium model augmented with imperfections in both the debt and equity markets.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Economic models, Inflation targets, Monetary policy framework JEL Code(s): E, E4, E40, E5, E50

• Good Policies or Good Fortune: What Drives the Compression in Emerging Market Spreads?

  Staff Working Paper 2008-25 Philipp Maier, Garima Vasishtha

  Since 2002, spreads on emerging market sovereign debt have fallen to historical lows. Given the close links between sovereign spreads, capital flows to emerging markets, and economic growth, understanding the factors driving these spreads is very important. We address this issue in two stages.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Development economics, Financial stability, International topics JEL Code(s): E, E4, E43, F, F3, F34, G, G1, G12, G15

• Do Central Banks Respond to Exchange Rate Movements? Some New Evidence from Structural Estimation

  Staff Working Paper 2008-24 Wei Dong

  This paper investigates the impact of exchange rate movements on the conduct of monetary policy in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. We develop and estimate a structural general equilibrium two-sector model with sticky prices and wages and limited exchange rate pass-through.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Exchange rates, International topics, Monetary policy framework JEL Code(s): F, F3, F4
• July 31, 2008

  Bank of Canada releases 2009 schedule of dates for its policy interest rate announcements

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today released its 2009 schedule of eight dates for announcing decisions on its key policy interest rate, and confirmed the announcement dates for the remainder of this year.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• July 29, 2008

  Bank of Canada announces the appointment of Mark E. Caplan as Senior Representative and Director of its Toronto Office (Financial Markets)

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark E. Caplan as Senior Representative and Director, Toronto Office (Financial Markets), effective September 2008. Mr. Caplan will replace Ross MacKinnon, who is retiring.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases

• Liquidity Efficiency and Distribution in the LVTS: Non-Neutrality of System Changes under Network Asymmetry

  Staff Discussion Paper 2008-11 Sean O'Connor, James Chapman, Kirby Millar

  The authors consider the liquidity efficiency of Tranche 2 of the Large Value Transfer System (LVTS T2) by examining, through an empirical analysis, some plausible strategic reactions of individual participants to a systemwide shock to available liquidity in the system.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial services, Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, L, L1, L13, L14
• July 22, 2008

  International Experience with the Conduct of Monetary Policy under Inflation Targeting

  Conference held on 22 and 23 July 2008 (papers in unedited, electronic format only)

  Content Type(s): Conferences and workshops

• The Implementation of Monetary Policy in Canada

  Staff Discussion Paper 2008-9 Walter Engert, Toni Gravelle, Donna Howard

  The authors present a detailed discussion of the Bank of Canada's framework for the implementation of monetary policy. As background, they provide a brief overview of the financial system in Canada, including a discussion of the financial services industry and the money market.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial markets, Monetary policy implementation, Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): E, E5, E52, E58, G, G2, G21

• On the Amplification Role of Collateral Constraints

  Staff Working Paper 2008-23 Caterina Mendicino

  Following the seminal contribution of Kiyotaki and Moore (1997), the role of collateral constraints for business cycle fluctuations has been highlighted by several authors and collateralized debt is becoming a popular feature of business cycle models.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Credit and credit aggregates JEL Code(s): E, E2, E20, E3, E32
• July 17, 2008

  Release of the Monetary Policy Report Update

  Opening statement Mark Carney

  In the Update, the Bank described three major developments affecting the Canadian economy: protracted weakness in the U.S. economy, ongoing turbulence in global financial markets, and sharp increases in certain commodity prices, particularly energy.

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