October 23, 2013 Bank of Canada maintains overnight rate target at 1 per cent Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 1 1/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 3/4 per cent. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
October 23, 2013 Monetary Policy Report – October 2013 The Canadian economy is expected to grow by 1.6 per cent in 2013, 2.3 per cent in 2014 and 2.6 per cent in 2015, and to reach full production capacity around the end of 2015. Content Type(s): Publications, Monetary Policy Report
October 18, 2013 Weekly Financial Statistics - 18 October 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
October 11, 2013 Weekly Financial Statistics - 11 October 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
October 11, 2013 Business Outlook Survey - Autumn 2013 Weak demand and uncertainty regarding future demand continue to weigh on firms’ investment decisions and near-term capacity planning, according to responses to the autumn survey. Content Type(s): Publications, Business Outlook Survey
October 11, 2013 Senior Loan Officer Survey - Third-Quarter 2013 The survey, conducted between 9 and 13 September, pointed to continued easing in overall business-lending conditions during the third quarter of 2013. Content Type(s): Publications, Senior Loan Officer Survey
October 9, 2013 Bank of Canada Statement on the Nomination of Janet Yellen as Chairwoman of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System Media Relations The Bank of Canada welcomes the nomination of Janet Yellen as the new Chairwoman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
October 4, 2013 Weekly Financial Statistics - 4 October 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
Public/Private Transitions and Firm Financing Staff Working Paper 2013-36 Kim Huynh, Teodora Paligorova, Robert Petrunia A large body of empirical literature investigates differences in financing structures across firms. Private firms’ financing receives little attention due to the lack of data. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Credit and credit aggregates, Financial markets JEL Code(s): G, G3, G30, L, L1, L11
The Common Component of CPI: An Alternative Measure of Underlying Inflation for Canada Staff Working Paper 2013-35 Mikael Khan, Louis Morel, Patrick Sabourin In this paper, the authors propose a measure of underlying inflation for Canada obtained from estimating a monthly factor model on individual components of the CPI. This measure, labelled the common component of CPI, has intuitive appeal and a number of interesting features. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Econometric and statistical methods, Inflation and prices, Monetary policy framework JEL Code(s): C, C1, E, E3, E31, E32, E5, E52, E58