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• April 4, 2006

  Bank of Canada to Upgrade $5 Bank Note

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today announced that it will issue a $5 note with upgraded security features beginning 15 November 2006 as part of its ongoing effort to improve the security of Canadian bank notes.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases

• The Federal Reserve's Dual Mandate: A Time-Varying Monetary Policy Priority Index for the United States

  Staff Working Paper 2006-11 René Lalonde, Nicolas Parent

  In the United States, the Federal Reserve has a dual mandate of promoting stable inflation and maximum employment. Since the Fed directly controls only one instrument - the federal funds rate - the authors argue that the Fed's priorities continuously alternate between inflation and economic activity.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Monetary policy framework, Monetary policy implementation JEL Code(s): C, C2, C22, C5, C52, E, E5, E52
• March 30, 2006

  The Evolving International Monetary Order and the Need for an Evolving IMF

  Lecture David Dodge Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Princeton, New Jersey

  The world needs an international institution to promote a new monetary order—a well-functioning, market-based global financial system. This will be the subject of my remarks today.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Lectures
• March 29, 2006

  Global Imbalances: Why Worry? What to Do?

  Remarks David Dodge New York Association for Business Economics New York, New York

  These imbalances reflect the financial flows associated with mismatches in savings and investment on a global scale. Since the late 1990s, many economies outside the United States have increased their net national savings.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
• March 10, 2006

  Bank of Canada Announces Research Fellowship for 2006

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today announced that Professor Gregor Smith of Queen's University is the recipient of the Bank's Research Fellowship for 2006.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases Source(s): Fellowship Program
• March 9, 2006

  Renewing the IMF: Some Lessons from Modern Central Banking

  Remarks Tiff Macklem Global Interdependence Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  As economies have become more interconnected through trade and financial flows in a truly global marketplace, economic developments in one location can quickly have repercussions on the other side of the globe. In 1997, what began as a currency devaluation in Thailand became a crisis with repercussions not just in Asia, but in countries as far away as Russia, Brazil, and Canada.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
• March 7, 2006

  Bank of Canada raises overnight rate target by 1/4 percentage point to 3 3/4 per cent

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today announced that it is raising its target for the overnight rate by one-quarter of one percentage point to 3 3/4 per cent.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases

• Monetary Policy in an Estimated DSGE Model with a Financial Accelerator

  Staff Working Paper 2006-9 Ian Christensen, Ali Dib

  The authors estimate a sticky-price dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with a financial accelerator, à la Bernanke, Gertler, and Gilchrist (1999), to assess the importance of financial frictions in the amplification and propagation of the effects of transitory shocks.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Econometric and statistical methods, Economic models JEL Code(s): E, E3, E32, E37, E4, E44

• Ownership Concentration and Competition in Banking Markets

  Staff Working Paper 2006-7 Alexandra Lai, Raphael Solomon

  Many countries prohibit large shareholdings in their domestic banks.The authors examine whether such a restriction restrains competition in a duopolistic loan market. Blockholders may influence managers' output decisions by choosing capital structure, as in Brander and Lewis (1986).

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial services, Financial system regulation and policies JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, G28, G3, G32, L, L1, L10

• Are Currency Crises Low-State Equilibria? An Empirical, Three-Interest-Rate Model

  Staff Working Paper 2006-5 Christopher Cornell, Raphael Solomon

  Suppose that the dynamics of the macroeconomy were given by (partly) random fluctuations between two equilibria: "good" and "bad."

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Monetary policy and uncertainty JEL Code(s): C, C6, C62, E, E5, E59, F, F4, F41