April 12, 2010 Results of the 12 April 2010 Term PRA Transaction The results of today's term PRA operations. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
April 9, 2010 Bank of Canada Announces Details of its Term PRA Operation In accordance with the schedule of term purchase and resale agreement (PRA) auctions announced on 19 January (see schedule), the Bank of Canada announced today that it will conduct a term PRA operation. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
April 9, 2010 Spring 2010 Debt Management Strategy Consultations - Views Sought on Issues Relating to the Government's Domestic Debt Program The Department of Finance and the Bank of Canada are seeking the views of government securities distributors, institutional investors, and other interested parties on issues relating to the management of the cash flow profile of Government of Canada securities over the medium term, and demand for long term bonds (nominal and Real Return). Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
April 7, 2010 Banking on a Better System: Lessons from Canada Presentation John Murray American University Washington, D.C. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Presentations
March 31, 2010 The Bank of Canada Releases Its Annual Report for 2009 Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada's Annual Report for 2009 was tabled in the House of Commons today. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
March 29, 2010 Beyond Recovery: Sustaining Economic Growth Remarks Paul Jenkins Economic Club of Canada Toronto, Ontario John Maynard Keynes said the objective of "analysis is … to provide ourselves with an organized and orderly method of thinking out particular problems .… This is the nature of economic thinking." Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
March 24, 2010 The Virtue of Productivity in a Wicked World Remarks Mark Carney Ottawa Economics Association Ottawa, Ontario It is either brave or foolhardy of the Ottawa Economics Association to organize another conference around Canada's perennial challenges of demographics, productivity, and potential growth. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
March 24, 2010 Two Imperatives to Secure Strong, Sustainable, and Balanced Economic Growth, Governor Mark Carney Says Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario While Canada is a country of immense strengths and considerable resilience, its economy is underperforming relative to its potential, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said today in a speech to the Ottawa Economics Association. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
March 23, 2010 Daily Digest Get quick access to data on exchange rates, money markets, inflation, interest rates and bond yields.
On the Advantages of Disaggregated Data: Insights from Forecasting the U.S. Economy in a Data-Rich Environment Staff Working Paper 2010-10 Nikita Perevalov, Philipp Maier The good forecasting performance of factor models has been well documented in the literature. While many studies focus on a very limited set of variables (typically GDP and inflation), this study evaluates forecasting performance at disaggregated levels to examine the source of the improved forecasting accuracy, relative to a simple autoregressive model. We use the latest revision of over 100 U.S. time series over the period 1974-2009 (monthly and quarterly data). Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, International topics JEL Code(s): C, C5, C50, C53, E, E3, E37, E4, E47