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Statistical Confidence Intervals for the Bank of Canada's Business Outlook Survey
While a number of central banks publish their own business conditions indicators that rely on non-random sampling, knowledge about their statistical accuracy has been limited. -
The Fisher BCPI: The Bank of Canada’s New Commodity Price Index
The prices of commodities produced in Canada have important implications for the performance of the Canadian economy and the conduct of monetary policy. The authors explain an important change to the methodology used to construct the Bank of Canada commodity price index (BCPI). -
May 17, 2010
Bank of Canada and U.S. Federal Reserve Publish Text of Swap Arrangement
Further to the 9 May 2010 announcement that the Bank of Canada and the U.S. Federal Reserve have agreed to the re-establishment of the US$30 billion swap facility (reciprocal currency arrangement), the Bank of Canada and the U.S. Federal Reserve today published the text of that swap arrangement. -
Relative Price Movements and Labour Productivity in Canada: A VAR Analysis
In recent years, the Canadian economy has been affected by strong movements in relative prices brought about by the surging costs of energy and non-energy commodities, with significant implications for the terms of trade, the exchange rate, and the allocation of resources across Canadian sectors and regions. -
May 14, 2010
17th Annual Meetings of Gouverneurs des banques centrales des pays francophones
As part of events related to its 75th anniversary, the Bank of Canada hosted the 17th annual meetings of Gouverneurs des banques centrales des pays francophones in Montréal from 12 to 14 May 2010. -
May 9, 2010
Bank of Canada Announces Swap Facility with U.S. Federal Reserve as part of Coordinated Central Bank Actions
In response to the re-emergence of strains in U.S. dollar short-term funding markets in Europe, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, and the Swiss National Bank are announcing the re-establishment of temporary U.S. dollar liquidity swap facilities. -
May 7, 2010
The New Bank of Canada Commodity Price Index (BCPI)
The Bank of Canada today announced the introduction of a new Bank of Canada commodity price index (BCPI). -
May 6, 2010
Is There a Commodity Curse? Lessons from the Past
As the title of the conference suggests, we have seen many boom-and-bust cycles in the commodity sector. This raises one obvious and central question: How can we avoid them in the future? -
April 30, 2010
Bank of Canada announces Terms and Conditions for Term Repo Operations for Balance Sheet Management Purposes
The Bank of Canada announced today its Terms and Conditions for Term Repo Operations for Balance Sheet management purposes.