March 21, 2005
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March 21, 2005
Summary of Comments – Debt Strategy 2005/06 Consultations
In October 2004, officials from the Department of Finance and the Bank of Canada sought views from Government Securities Distributors and institutional investors on a number of issues related to the design and operation of the domestic debt programs. -
March 2, 2005
Bank of Canada Announces Research Fellowship for 2005
The Bank of Canada today announced that Professor Paul Beaudry of the University of British Columbia is the recipient of the Bank's Research Fellowship for 2005. -
March 1, 2005
Bank of Canada keeps target for the overnight rate at 2 1/2 per cent
The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 2 1/2 per cent. -
Monetary Policy under Model and Data-Parameter Uncertainty
Policy-makers in the United States over the past 15 to 20 years seem to have been cautious in setting policy: empirical estimates of monetary policy rules such as Taylor's (1993) rule are much less aggressive than those derived from optimizing models. -
February 18, 2005
Additional release time for calls for tenders for cash management bills
Effective immediately, calls for tenders for cash management bills may be released on any day at either 10:00 a.m. or 4:00 p.m. The addition of a later time to the existing Auction Timetable will increase the ability of the government's cash managers to raise balances on short notice in response to unexpected developments. -
February 17, 2005
Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate Movements
Every year, the Canadian Press surveys news directors and editors to select the top business story of the year. In 2004, they picked the rise of the Canadian dollar. That was not a surprising choice. -
February 4, 2005
Executive Summary: Foreign Exchange Hedging by Canadian Corporate Accounts
In December 2004, the Bank of Canada sent those banks who are members of the Canadian Foreign Exchange Committee (CFEC)1 a questionnaire that focused on the foreign exchange hedging activities of their corporate customers. The questionnaire was similar in structure to one that was circulated to CFEC members in January 2004. -
State-Dependent or Time-Dependent Pricing: Does It Matter for Recent U.S. Inflation?
Inflation equals the product of two terms: an extensive margin (the fraction of items with price changes) and an intensive margin (the average size of those changes). -
Pre-Bid Run-Ups Ahead of Canadian Takeovers: How Big Is the Problem?
The authors study the price - volume dynamics ahead of the first public announcement of a takeover for 420 Canadian firms from 1985 to 2002.