March 16, 2008 Bank of Canada Review - Spring 2008 Cover Page Canada's First Coinage Photography by Gord Carter, Ottawa. Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review
March 14, 2008 The Bank of Canada Releases Its Annual Report for 2007 Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada's Annual Report for 2007 was tabled in the House of Commons today. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
March 13, 2008 Addressing Financial Market Turbulence Media Relations Toronto, Ontario More than seven months after financial market turbulence began, policy-makers and market participants are entering a new phase, where shortcomings in the current system are better understood and improvements are beginning to be made, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said today in a speech to the Toronto Board of Trade. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
March 13, 2008 Addressing Financial Market Turbulence Remarks Mark Carney Toronto Board of Trade Toronto, Ontario Since last summer, many of us here today have been preoccupied with the ongoing dislocations in financial markets. What began in securities linked to U.S. subprime mortgages has spread to a broad range of structured assets, conventional credit markets, and, to a lesser extent, equities. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
March 12, 2008 Opening Statement before the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce Opening statement Paul Jenkins Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce Let me start by saying that the issue of internal trade barriers is critically important, and I'm very pleased, Mr. Chairman, that your committee is examining it. We have reviewed previous submissions to this committee, and you will see that our focus will be slightly different. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
March 11, 2008 Bank of Canada Announces New Term PRA Transactions as part of Co-ordinated G10 Central Bank Actions Since the co-ordinated actions taken in December 2007, the G10 central banks have continued to work together closely and to consult regularly on liquidity pressures in funding markets. Pressures in some of these markets have recently increased again. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
Markups in Canada: Have They Changed and Why? Staff Working Paper 2008-7 Danny Leung Many empirical studies have examined the cyclical nature of the markup ratio. Until recently, few have attempted to ascertain the changes in the markup over a longer time horizon. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods JEL Code(s): E, E3, E31, F, F4, F41, L, L1, L11
March 5, 2008 Proposed Criteria for Accepting ABCP as Collateral for the Bank of Canada's Standing Liquidity Facility The Bank of Canada is seeking comments from direct participants in the Large Value Transfer System (LVTS) and other interested parties on the proposed eligibility criteria for accepting asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) as collateral for the Bank of Canada's Standing Liquidity Facility (SLF). Content Type(s): Press, Announcements
March 4, 2008 Bank of Canada lowers overnight rate target by 1/2 percentage point to 3 1/2 per cent Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada today announced that it is lowering its target for the overnight rate by one-half of one percentage point to 3 1/2 per cent. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
Inflation Targeting and Price-Level-Path Targeting in the GEM: Some Open Economy Considerations Staff Working Paper 2008-6 Donald Coletti, René Lalonde, Dirk Muir This paper compares the performance of simple inflation targeting (IT) and price-level path targeting (PLPT) rules to stabilize the macroeconomy, in response to a series of shocks, similar to those seen in Canada and the United States over the 1983 to 2004 period. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Economic models, Inflation and prices, Inflation: costs and benefits, Monetary policy framework JEL Code(s): C, C5, C51, C52, E, E1, E17, E3, E31, E5, E52