February 12, 2013 Statement by G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Media Relations We, the G7 Ministers and Governors, reaffirm our longstanding commitment to market determined exchange rates and to consult closely in regard to actions in foreign exchange markets. We reaffirm that our fiscal and monetary policies have been and will remain oriented towards meeting our respective domestic objectives using domestic instruments, and that we will not […] Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
February 11, 2013 Financial Stability in One Country? Remarks Timothy Lane Weatherhead Center for International Affairs - Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts Deputy Governor Tim Lane discusses the cross-border implications of financial instability and financial reform. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
February 8, 2013 Weekly Financial Statistics - 8 February 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
Asking About Wages: Results from the Bank of Canada’s Wage Setting Survey of Canadian Companies Staff Discussion Paper 2013-1 David Amirault, Paul Fenton, Thérèse Laflèche The Bank of Canada conducted a Wage Setting Survey with a sample of 200 private sector firms from mid-October 2007 to May 2008. Results indicate that wage adjustments for the Canadian non-union private workforce are overwhelmingly time dependent, with a fixed duration of one year, and are clustered in the first four months of the year, suggesting that wage stickiness may not be constant over the year. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Labour markets, Monetary policy transmission JEL Code(s): E, E2, E24, J, J3, J33, M, M5, M52
February 1, 2013 Weekly Financial Statistics - 1 February 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
January 31, 2013 Banking and Financial Statistics - January 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Banking and Financial Statistics
January 30, 2013 Research Update - January 2013 This monthly newsletter features the latest research publications by Bank of Canada economists including external publications and working papers published on the Bank of Canada’s website. Content Type(s): Staff research, Research newsletters
January 30, 2013 Bank notes: Resources for the blind and partially sighted This section includes information and products that explain how blind and partially-sighted Canadians can determine the denominations of bank notes.
Financial Development and the Volatility of Income Staff Working Paper 2013-4 Tiago Pinheiro, Francisco Rivadeneyra, Marc Teignier This paper presents a general equilibrium model with endogenous collateral constraints to study the relationship between financial development and business cycle fluctuations in a cross-section of economies with different sizes of their financial sector. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Credit and credit aggregates, Financial stability JEL Code(s): E, E3, E32, E6, E60