March 31, 2017 Weekly Financial Statistics - 31 March 2017 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
March 30, 2017 Bank of Canada announces recipients of 2017 Fellowship and Governor’s awards Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada is pleased to announce that Professor Francisco Ruge-Murcia from McGill University is the 2017 recipient of the Bank’s Fellowship Award. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases Source(s): Fellowship Program
Assessing the Business Outlook Survey Indicator Using Real-Time Data Staff Discussion Paper 2017-5 Lise Pichette, Marie-Noëlle Robitaille Every quarter, the Bank of Canada conducts quarterly consultations with businesses across Canada, referred to as the Business Outlook Survey (BOS). A principal-component analysis conducted by Pichette and Rennison (2011) led to the development of the BOS indicator, which summarizes survey results and is used by the Bank as a gauge of overall business sentiment. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Research Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Regional economic developments JEL Code(s): C, C5, C53, C8, C82, E, E3, E37
April 3, 2017 Senior Loan Officer Survey - First Quarter of 2017 Survey results suggest that overall business-lending conditions were essentially unchanged during the first quarter of 2017. This is the third consecutive quarter of unchanged lending conditions. Content Type(s): Publications, Senior Loan Officer Survey
The Bank of Canada 2015 Retailer Survey on the Cost of Payment Methods: Calibration for Single-Location Retailers Technical Report No. 109 Heng Chen, Rallye Shen Calibrated weights are created to (a) reduce the nonresponse bias; (b) reduce the coverage error; and (c) make the weighted estimates from the sample consistent with the target population in terms of certain key variables. Content Type(s): Staff research, Technical reports Research Topic(s): Digital currencies and fintech, Econometric and statistical methods JEL Code(s): C, C8, C81, C83
March 28, 2017 Progress and openness go hand in hand, Bank of Canada Governor Poloz says Media Relations Oshawa, Ontario Canada’s economic progress has been driven by its historical preference for openness to people, capital and trade, Bank of Canada Governor Stephen S. Poloz said today. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
March 23, 2017 Annual Report 2016 The Annual Report outlines the Bank’s activities and achievements in 2016. It includes the financial statements and a message from Governor Stephen S. Poloz. Content Type(s): Publications, Annual Report