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December 21, 2006
Credit in a Tiered Payments System
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Financial System Review articles
December 21, 2006
Using No-Arbitrage Models to Predict Exchange Rates
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Financial System Review articles
December 21, 2006
The financial system makes an important contribution to the welfare of all Canadians. The ability of households and firms to confidently hold and transfer financial assets is one of the fundamental building blocks of the Canadian economy.
Financial System Review - December 2006
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Financial Stability Report
December 20, 2006
Why Monetary Policy Matters: A Canadian Perspective
This article provides answers to several key questions about Canadian monetary policy. First, what is monetary policy? Second, why does the Bank of Canada focus on the control of inflation rather than other macroeconomic variables? Third, how do the Bank's actions influence the rate of inflation? And, finally, how can monetary policy deliver genuine and significant benefits to society?
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Bank of Canada Review articles
Topic(s):
Business fluctuations and cycles,
Inflation: costs and benefits,
Monetary policy framework
December 18, 2006
A Summary of the Bank of Canada Conference on Fixed-Income Markets, 3–4 May 2006
The Bank of Canada's interest in fixed-income markets spans several of its functional areas of responsibility, including monetary policy, funds management, and financial system stability and efficiency. For that reason, the 2006 conference brought together top academics and central bankers from around the world to discuss leading-edge work in the field of fixed-income research. The papers and discussions cover such topics as the efficiency of fixed-income markets, price formation, the determinants of the yield curve, and volatility modelling. This article provides a short summary of each conference paper and the ensuing discussion.
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Bank of Canada Review articles
Topic(s):
Debt management,
Financial markets,
Interest rates
December 8, 2006
Perspectives on Productivity and Potential Output Growth: A Summary of the Joint Banque de France/Bank of Canada Workshop, 24–25 April 2006
A nation's productivity is the prime determinant of its real incomes and standard of living, as well as being a major determinant of its potential output. In the short run, deviations of actual output from potential output are a useful indicator of inflationary pressures. This article is a short summary of the proceedings of the workshop, which focus on productivity and potential output growth among industrialized countries. The research is organized under three main themes: estimating potential growth; productivity and growth; and institutions, policies, and growth.
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Bank of Canada Review articles
Topic(s):
International topics,
Potential output,
Productivity
December 6, 2006
The Art and Design of Canadian Bank Notes
This volume offers readers a behind-the-scenes look at the demanding world of bank note design, highlighting the beauty of Canada's bank notes and celebrating the engraver's art. Soft cover, 124 pages (2006).
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Books and monographs,
Souvenir books
Topic(s):
Bank notes
October 22, 2006
ToTEM: The Bank of Canada's New Projection and Policy-Analysis Model
The Terms-of-Trade Economic Model, or ToTEM, replaced the Quarterly Projection Model (QPM) in December 2005 as the Bank's principal projection and policy-analysis model for the Canadian economy. Benefiting from advances in economic modelling and computer power, ToTEM builds on the strengths of QPM, allowing for optimizing behaviour on the part of firms and households, both in and out of steady state, in a multi-product environment. The authors explain the motivation behind the development of ToTEM, provide an overview of the model and its calibration, and present several simulations to illustrate its key properties, concluding with some indications of how the model is expected to evolve going forward.
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Bank of Canada Review articles
Topic(s):
Business fluctuations and cycles,
Economic models
October 22, 2006
Bank of Canada Review - Autumn 2006
Cover page
The "pretended" Bank of Upper Canada — Kingston (1819-22)
The note is part of the National Currency Collection of the Bank of Canada.
Photography by Gord Carter
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Bank of Canada Review