August 29, 2013 Quarterly Financial Report - Second Quarter 2013 Quarterly Financial Report - Second Quarter 2013 - For the period ended 30 June 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Quarterly Financial Report
September 4, 2013 Bank of Canada maintains overnight rate target at 1 per cent Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 1 1/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 3/4 per cent. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
August 27, 2013 Exits, Spillovers and Monetary Policy Independence Remarks John Murray Canadian Association for Business Economics Kingston, Ontario Deputy Governor John Murray discusses exits from unconventional monetary policies, spillovers and monetary policy independence. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
August 9, 2013 Weekly Financial Statistics - 9 August 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
August 2, 2013 Weekly Financial Statistics - 2 August 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
Is There a Quality Bias in the Canadian CPI? Evidence from Micro Data Staff Working Paper 2013-24 Oleksiy Kryvtsov Rising consumer prices may reflect shifts by consumers to new higher-priced products, mostly for durable and semi-durable goods. I apply Bils’ (2009) methodology to newly available Canadian consumer price data for non-shelter goods and services to estimate how price increases can be divided between quality growth and price inflation. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Inflation and prices, Potential output JEL Code(s): E, E3, E31, M, M1, M11, O, O4, O47
July 19, 2013 Weekly Financial Statistics - 19 July 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
Jump-Diffusion Long-Run Risks Models, Variance Risk Premium and Volatility Dynamics Staff Working Paper 2013-12 Jianjian Jin This paper calibrates a class of jump-diffusion long-run risks (LRR) models to quantify how well they can jointly explain the equity risk premium and the variance risk premium in the U.S. financial markets, and whether they can generate realistic dynamics of risk-neutral and realized volatilities. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Asset pricing, Economic models JEL Code(s): G, G1, G12, G17
A New Linear Estimator for Gaussian Dynamic Term Structure Models Staff Working Paper 2013-10 Antonio Diez de los Rios This paper proposes a novel regression-based approach to the estimation of Gaussian dynamic term structure models that avoids numerical optimization. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Asset pricing, Econometric and statistical methods, Interest rates JEL Code(s): C, C1, C13, E, E4, E43, G, G1, G12
August 21, 2012 Bank of Canada Announces the Recipient of its 2012 Law Enforcement Award of Excellence for Counterfeit Deterrence Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada is pleased to announce the recipient of its 2012 Law Enforcement Award of Excellence for Counterfeit Deterrence. The RCMP Integrated Counterfeit Enforcement Team, based in Surrey, British Columbia, was honoured for the second consecutive year during the annual conference of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police in Sydney, Nova Scotia. […] Content Type(s): Press, Press releases Research Topic(s): Bank notes