April 21, 2004
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April 20, 2004
Opening Statement before the Senate Banking, Trade and Commerce Committee
The Canadian economy continues to adjust to developments in the global economy such as stronger world demand, higher commodity prices, and the realignment of world currencies, including the Canadian dollar. Emerging-market economies, especially China and India, are contributing to intensified competition but are also creating new trading opportunities for Canada. -
April 19, 2004
Economic and Financial Policies for Growth in the Americas: A Canadian Perspective
The giant emerging-market economies of China and India are truly changing the economic balance across the Pacific in a way that none of us can afford to ignore. The sheer size of these two economies is very impressive in itself: together, they account for close to 40 per cent of the world's population. -
April 15, 2004
Monetary Policy Report – April 2004
The Canadian economy continues to adjust to developments in the global economy. -
April 15, 2004
Bank of Canada releases Monetary Policy Report
The Bank of Canada today released its April Monetary Policy Report, which reviews economic and financial trends in the context of Canada's inflation-control strategy. -
April 15, 2004
Release of the Monetary Policy Report
The Canadian economy continues to adjust to developments in the global economy, such as stronger world demand, higher commodity prices, and the realignment of world currencies, including the Canadian dollar. -
April 13, 2004
Bank of Canada lowers target for the overnight rate by 1/4 percentage point to 2 per cent
The Bank of Canada today announced that it is lowering its target for the overnight rate by one-quarter of one percentage point to 2 per cent. The operating band for the overnight rate is correspondingly lowered, and the Bank Rate is now 2 1/4 per cent.
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The Bank of Canada's Business Outlook Survey: An Assessment
Since the autumn of 1997, the Bank of Canada's regional offices (located in Halifax, Montréal, Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver) have conducted consultations with businesses across Canada on a quarterly basis. These consultations are now referred to as the Business Outlook Survey (BOS). -
National Saving–Investment Dynamics and International Capital Mobility
The authors analyze the dynamics of national saving–investment relationships to determine the degree of international capital mobility. -
Contraintes de liquidité et capital humain dans une petite économie ouverte
In an overlapping-generations model that represents a small open economy, where agents live two periods, liquidity constraints lead to low economic development when the only accumulable factor is human capital.