Publications

• May 20, 2003

  Updating the Bank of Canada Commodity Price Index

  Bank of Canada Review - Spring 2003 Todd Hirsch

  The Bank of Canada Commodity Price Index (BCPI) summarizes the price movements of 23 commodities produced in Canada. Information provided by the BCPI is used in analyzing movements in GDP, industrial producer prices, inflation, and the exchange rate. Effective 15 May 2003, a number of changes will be reflected in the BCPI. To ensure that the index accurately reflects the natural resource sectors of the economy, a number of new components and pricing sources have been incorporated into the BCPI. Weights in the new index will be chained to 1 January 1991 and 1 January 2000 to better reflect contemporary values.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review articles
• April 23, 2003

  Monetary Policy Report – April 2003

  The global economic outlook has been clouded by a high degree of uncertainty, accentuated most recently by the war in Iraq.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Monetary Policy Report
• January 30, 2003

  Annual Report 2002

  

  In the year just ended, the global economy faced a number of exceptional challenges, reflecting a wide range of economic, financial, and geopolitical risks and uncertainties. These included the fallout from the September 2001 terrorist attacks, corporate accounting scandals, stock market volatility, and developments in the Middle East. Despite this global backdrop, the Canadian economy outperformed virtually all other industrial economies, growing by about 3 1/4 per cent and creating 560,000 jobs, while inflation expectations remained well anchored to the Bank of Canada’s 2 per cent inflation-control target.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Annual Report
• January 23, 2003

  Monetary Policy Report Update – January 2003

  At the time of the October Monetary Policy Report, the Bank projected that core inflation would rise in the fourth quarter of 2002, reflecting a combination of one-off factors - including the rise in insurance premiums - and the “echo effect” from developments towards the end of 2001.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Monetary Policy Report
• January 21, 2003

  Bank of Canada Review - Winter 2002-2003

  

  Cover page

  A Nineteenth-Century Court Case

  The note and court document shown on the cover form part of the National Currency Collection, Bank of Canada.

  Photographed by Gord Carter, Ottawa

  Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review
• December 31, 2002

  Summary of Government of Canada - Outstanding as at 31 December 2002

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Securities and loans
• December 23, 2002

  Systemic Risk, Designation, and the ACSS

  Financial System Review - December 2002 Carol Ann Northcott

  This report discusses the decision not to designate the Automated Clearing Settlement System as a systemically important system, as well as some of the research contributing to that decision.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Financial System Review articles
• December 23, 2002

  The CLS Bank: Managing Risk in Foreign Exchange Settlements

  Financial System Review - December 2002 Paul Miller, Carol Ann Northcott

  Content Type(s): Publications, Financial System Review articles
• December 23, 2002

  The Impact of Participant Outages on Canada’s Large Value Transfer System

  Financial System Review - December 2002 Kim McPhail, David Senger

  Content Type(s): Publications, Financial System Review articles
• December 23, 2002

  Financial System Review - December 2002

  

  The financial system, which consists of financial institutions, financial markets, and clearing and settlement systems, lays an important role in a nation’s economy. Sound and efficientfinancial systems can make a significant contribution to economic growth.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Financial Stability Report