March 22, 2007
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March 22, 2007
Promoting Economic Flexibility: A Shared Responsibility
These remarks are based on a to the Vancouver Board of Trade, 13 September 2006. -
March 22, 2007
Spring 2007 Consultations Document
In view of the announcement in the Debt Management Strategy for 2007/08 of an increase in the issuance of Real Return Bonds (RRBs) to slightly over $2 billion, the Department of Finance and the Bank of Canada are seeking the views of institutional investors, government securities distributors, and other interested parties regarding the RRB auction plan. -
March 19, 2007
Summary of Comments - 2007/08 Debt Strategy Consultations
Today, a Summary of Comments on the Debt Strategy Consultations for 2007/08 is being published on the Bank's website in conjunction with the release of the government's Debt Management Strategy for 2007/08 on the Department of Finance website. -
March 19, 2007
Summary of Comments – 2007/08 Debt Strategy Consultations
In December 2006, officials from the Department of Finance and the Bank of Canada sought views from government securities distributors, institutional investors, and other interested parties on the state of the Government of Canada securities market in an environment of limited borrowing needs. -
Order Aggressiveness and Quantity: How Are They Determined in a Limit Order Market?
Dealers trading in a limit order market must choose both the order aggressiveness and the quantity for their orders. We empirically investigate how dealers jointly make these decisions in the foreign exchange market using a unique simultaneous equations model. -
March 9, 2007
Bank of Canada Announces Research Fellowship for 2007
The Bank of Canada today announced that Professor Jean-Marie Dufour of the Université de Montréal is the recipient of the Bank's Research Fellowship for 2007. -
March 8, 2007
Meeting Global Economic Challenges: The Need for Flexibility
Our primary objective at the Bank is to promote the economic and financial welfare of Canadians. Over the years, we have learned that the best contribution that monetary policy can make in this regard is to give Canadians confidence in the future value of their money. We do this by keeping inflation low, stable, and predictable. -
Multivariate Realized Stock Market Volatility
We present a new matrix-logarithm model of the realized covariance matrix of stock returns. The model uses latent factors which are functions of both lagged volatility and returns. -
March 6, 2007
Bank of Canada keeps target for the overnight rate at 4 1/4 per cent
The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 4 1/4 per cent.