October 16, 2007
Bank of Canada keeps target for the overnight rate at 4 1/2 per cent
The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 4 1/2 per cent.
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October 11, 2007
Deputy Governor Tiff Macklem appointed Associate Deputy Minister of Finance
The Prime Minister announced today that Tiff Macklem, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, has been appointed Associate Deputy Minister of Finance, effective 1 November. -
October 5, 2007
Business Outlook Survey - Autumn 2007
Overall, businesses continue to be positive about the economic outlook, notwithstanding lower expectations for U.S. economic growth and recent financial market turbulence. -
October 4, 2007
Mark Carney Appointed Governor of the Bank of Canada
The Directors of the Bank of Canada appointed under Section 9 of the Bank of Canada Act today announced that they have appointed Mark Carney as Governor of the Bank of Canada for a seven-year term, effective 1 February 2008. -
Rediscounting Under Aggregate Risk with Moral Hazard
Freeman (1999) proposes a model in which discount window lending and open market operations have different effects. This is important because in most of the literature, these policies are indistinguishable. -
October 3, 2007
Liquidity, Liquidity, Liquidity
Sound financial investment is important to individuals, to firms, and to society as a whole. By definition, investment is forward looking, and thus our future financial well-being is shaped by the soundness of the investment decisions we make today. -
September 25, 2007
Turbulence in Credit Markets: Causes, Effects, and Lessons To Be Learned
The turbulence in financial markets did not come about against a backdrop of economic weakness. Indeed, over the past number of years, the global economy has shown remarkable strength. We were also seeing encouraging signs of growth being spread more evenly. -
September 12, 2007
A Clear Case for Transparency
We have seen a remarkable continuation of robust global growth, fuelled by increases in international trade and facilitated by the continuing evolution and expansion of capital markets. Domestic demand began to grow more strongly in Europe and Asia and to slow in the United States, and this began to ease some of the concerns related to global imbalances that I spoke about during my last visit. -
September 10, 2007
New initiative to involve Canadian high school students in the fight against bank note counterfeiting crimes
The Bank of Canada, the Durham District School Board, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Ontario Provincial Police and the Sûreté du Québec are joining forces to promote the new Counterfeit Detection module, a free ready-to-teach kit available to high schools across the country. -
The Bank of Canada's Version of the Global Economy Model (BoC-GEM)
The Bank of Canada's version of the Global Economy Model (BoC-GEM) is derived from the model created at the International Monetary Fund by Douglas Laxton (IMF) and Paolo Pesenti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York and National Bureau of Economic Research).