December 21, 2012
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How Important Are Liquidity Constraints for Canadian Households? Evidence from Micro-Data
Using a unique micro-dataset containing real and financial information on Canadian households for 2000–07, the authors address two questions: (1) What is the proportion of households whose consumption displays excess sensitivity to income, and who are likely liquidity constrained? -
Extracting Information from the Business Outlook Survey Using Statistical Approaches
Since the autumn of 1997, the regional offices of the Bank of Canada have conducted quarterly consultations with businesses across Canada. These consultations, summarized in the Business Outlook Survey (BOS), are structured around a survey questionnaire that covers topics of importance to the Bank, notably business activity, pressures on production capacity, prices and inflation, and credit conditions. -
On the Welfare Effects of Credit Arrangements
This paper studies the welfare effects of different credit arrangements and how these effects depend on the trading mechanism and inflation. In a competitive market, a deviation from the Friedman rule is always sub-optimal. Moreover, credit arrangements can be welfare-reducing, because increased consumption by credit users will drive up the price level so that money users have to reduce consumption when facing a binding liquidity restraint. -
Financial Crisis Resolution
This paper studies a dynamic version of the Holmstrom-Tirole model of intermediated finance. I show that competitive equilibria are not constrained efficient when the economy experiences a financial crisis. A pecuniary externality entails that banks’ desire to accumulate capital over time aggravates the scarcity of informed capital during the financial crisis. -
December 20, 2012
Bank of Canada Announces Details of a Term Repo for Balance Sheet Management Purposes Operation
The Bank of Canada announced today that it will conduct a Term Repo for Balance Sheet Management Purposes operation. -
December 19, 2012
Results of the 19 December 2012 Term Repo Operation for Balance Sheet Management Purposes
Results of today's term repo for balance sheet management purposes operation. -
December 18, 2012
Bank of Canada Margin Call Practice for Domestic Market Operations
For transactions outstanding against securities purchased or sold under a term purchase and resale agreement, the Bank values the securities daily, and compares that value to the contract valuation to ensure the Bank is adequately protected. -
Estimating the Policy Rule from Money Market Rates when Target Rate Changes Are Lumpy
Most central banks effect changes to their target or policy rate in discrete increments (e.g., multiples of 0.25%) following public announcements on scheduled dates. Still, for most applications, researchers rely on the assumption that the policy rate changes linearly with economic conditions and they do not distinguish between dates with and without scheduled announcements. -
December 18, 2012
Bank of Canada Announces Details of a Term Repo for Balance Sheet Management Purposes Operation
The Bank of Canada announced today that it will conduct a Term Repo for Balance Sheet Management Purposes operation.