August 27, 2024
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August 22, 2024
Quarterly Financial Report - Second Quarter 2024
Quarterly Financial Report - Second Quarter 2024 - For the period ended June 30, 2024, unaudited -
August 19, 2024
Release: Senior Loan Officer Survey
10:30 (ET)
The Senior Loan Officer Survey collects information on the business-lending practices of Canadian financial institutions. -
Price Discounts and Cheapflation During the Post-Pandemic Inflation Surge
We study how price variation within a store changes with inflation, and whether households exploit these changes to reduce the burden of inflation. We find that price changes from discounts mitigated the inflation burden while cheapflation exacerbated it. -
Decision Synthesis in Monetary Policy
We use Bayesian predictive decision synthesis to formalize monetary policy decision-making. We develop a case-study of monetary policy decision-making of an inflation-targeting central bank using multiple models in a manner that considers decision goals, expectations and outcomes. -
August 14, 2024
Canada Border Services Agency wins Bank of Canada counterfeit deterrence award
The Bank of Canada is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2024 Law Enforcement Award of Excellence for Counterfeit Deterrence. -
CORRA: Explaining the rise in volumes and resulting upward pressure
On May 27, 2024, the settlement period for trading GoC bonds in the secondary market in Canada moved from two days to one. This shortened time for settling secondary cash bond trades caused CORRA volumes to rise significantly, and they have remained elevated since. This combined with the skew in demand for funding has pressured CORRA higher. We find no indications that any other factors are contributing to the most recent pressures on CORRA. -
August 8, 2024
Bank of Canada engages experts to assess internal review of exceptional policy actions during pandemic
The Bank of Canada announced today the names of three external experts who will provide an independent assessment of its review of exceptional policy actions taken during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
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August 7, 2024
Release of the Bank of Canada’s summary of deliberations
On Wednesday, August 7, 2024, the Bank of Canada will publish a summary of the deliberations that took place ahead of its interest rate decision on July 24, 2024.