July 18, 2000 Proposed revisions to the rules pertaining to auctions of Receiver General term deposits A discussion paper prepared jointly by the Department of Finance and the Bank of Canada, and being made public today, is proposing changes to the government’s approach to auctioning and investing its Canadian dollar cash balances. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
Private Capital Flows, Financial Development, and Economic Growth in Developing Countries Staff Working Paper 2000-15 Jeannine Bailliu An important issue in the debate over the desirability of freer capital mobility for developing countries is whether capital flows have significant effects on economic growth. Proponents of capital account liberalization cite the growth-promoting attributes of capital inflows as a key benefit of financial integration for developing countries. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): International topics JEL Code(s): F, F2, F21, F4, F43, O, O5, O50
Employment Effects Of Nominal-Wage Rigidity: An Examination Using Wage-Settlements Data Staff Working Paper 2000-14 Umar Faruqui The argument advocating a moderate level of inflation based on the downward nominal-wage rigidity (DNWR) hypothesis rests on three factors: its presence, extent, and negative impact in the labour market. This paper focuses on the employment effect of DNWR. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Labour markets JEL Code(s): C, C2, C23, J, J2, J23, J3, J30
Price Stickiness, Inflation, and Output Dynamics: A Cross-Country Analysis Staff Working Paper 2000-12 Hashmat Khan The sticky-price model of aggregate fluctuations implies that countries with high trend inflation rates should exhibit less-persistent output fluctuations than countries with low trend inflation. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles JEL Code(s): E, E3, E31, E32
June 15, 2000 The Canadian Economy: Finding the Right Balance Remarks Gordon Thiessen Kelowna Chamber of Commerce Kelowna, British Columbia With the technological revolution that is currently sweeping the globe, dealing with change is a growing challenge for businesses these days. This revolution is erasing national frontiers, intensifying competition, and transforming economies everywhere. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
June 15, 2000 Bank of Canada Governor speaks to the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce Media Relations Kelowna, British Columbia "Low and stable inflation is good for business, good for the consumer, and good for the economy as a whole," Bank of Canada Governor Gordon Thiessen told the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce today in a luncheon speech that focused on the contribution that monetary policy makes towards an environment that supports economic activity. Mr. Thiessen […] Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
June 15, 2000 Response to IDA Reconstitution Proposal The strip bond sub-committee of the Investment Dealers Association (IDA), in a letter dated June 23, 1999, has recommended that “the current ceiling on reconstitution of bonds should be removed to allow reconstitution beyond the quantity stripped by book entry, which at times may be beyond the original issue size”. Content Type(s): Press, Announcements
Fractional Cointegration and the Demand for M1 Staff Working Paper 2000-13 Greg Tkacz Using wavelets, the author estimates the fractional order of integration of a common long-run money-demand relationship whose parameters are obtained from a full-information maximum-likelihood procedure. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Monetary aggregates JEL Code(s): C, C1, C13, E, E4, E41
Identifying Policy-makers' Objectives: An Application to the Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper 2000-11 Nicholas Rowe, James Yetman In this paper, we develop a new way to test hypotheses about policy-makers' targets, and we implement that test for Canadian monetary policy. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Inflation targets JEL Code(s): E, E5, E52, E6, E61
June 1, 2000 Price Stability and the Long-Run Target for Monetary Policy Proceedings of a seminar held by the Bank of Canada, June 2000 (proceedings volume, available in electronic format only) Content Type(s): Conferences and workshops