April 27, 2015 Workshop on Commodity Super Cycles Workshop held on 27 and 28 April 2015 (papers in unedited, electronic format only) Content Type(s): Conferences and workshops
April 24, 2015 Weekly Financial Statistics - 24 April 2015 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
April 24, 2015 1st Conference on the Chinese Economy Workshop held on 24 and 25 April 2015 (papers in unedited, electronic format only) Content Type(s): Conferences and workshops
2013 Methods-of-Payment Survey: Sample Calibration Analysis Technical Report No. 103 Kyle Vincent Sample calibration is a procedure that utilizes sample and national-level demographic distribution information to weight survey participants. The objective of calibration is to weight the sample so that it is demographically representative of the target population. Content Type(s): Staff research, Technical reports Topic(s): Central bank research JEL Code(s): C, C8, C81, C83
April 21, 2015 Summary of Comments – 2015–16 Debt Management Strategy Consultations Today, the Summary of Comments – 2015–16 Debt Management Strategy Consultations is being published in conjunction with the release of the government’s Debt Management Strategy for 2015–16. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
April 21, 2015 2015–16 Debt Management Strategy Consultations Summary of Comments The Government of Canada considers regular consultations with market participants to be an essential component of its ongoing commitment to a well-functioning government securities market and an integral part of the debt management process. In November 2014, a total of 46 bilateral meetings were held with organizations in Toronto, Montreal, New York, […]
A Wake-Up-Call Theory of Contagion Staff Working Paper 2015-14 Christoph Bertsch, Toni Ahnert We propose a novel theory of financial contagion. We study global coordination games of regime change in two regions with an initially uncertain correlation of regional fundamentals. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Exchange rates, Financial stability, International financial markets JEL Code(s): D, D8, D82, F, F3, G, G0, G01
Euro Area Government Bonds—Integration and Fragmentation During the Sovereign Debt Crisis Staff Working Paper 2015-13 Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher The paper analyzes the integration of euro area sovereign bond markets during the European sovereign debt crisis. It tests for contagion (i.e., an intensification in the transmission of shocks across countries), fragmentation (a reduction in spillovers) and flight-to-quality patterns, exploiting the heteroskedasticity of intraday changes in bond yields for identification. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Asset pricing, Financial markets, Interest rates, International financial markets JEL Code(s): E, E5, F, F3, G, G1, G15