July 4, 2014 Weekly Financial Statistics - 4 July 2014 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
What Drives Bank-Intermediated Trade Finance? Evidence from Cross-Country Analysis Staff Working Paper 2015-8 Jose Maria Serena, Garima Vasishtha Empirical work on the underlying causes of the recent dislocations in bank-intermediated trade finance has been limited by the poor availability of hard data. This paper analyzes the key determinants of bank-intermediated trade finance using a novel data set covering ten banking jurisdictions. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, International financial markets, International topics JEL Code(s): F, F1, F14, F19
Information, Risk Sharing and Incentives in Agency Problems Staff Working Paper 2015-7 Jia Xie This paper studies the use of information for incentives and risk sharing in agency problems. When the principal is risk neutral or the outcome is contractible, risk sharing is unnecessary or completely taken care of by a contract on the outcome. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Economic models JEL Code(s): D, D8
December 31, 2014 Research Update - December 2014 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 21, 2015 Monetary Policy Report – January 2015 Economic growth in Canada is expected to average 2.1 per cent in 2015 and 2.4 per cent in 2016, with a return to full capacity around the end of 2016. Content Type(s): Publications, Monetary Policy Report
January 21, 2015 Bank of Canada lowers overnight rate target to 3/4 per cent Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada today announced that it is lowering its target for the overnight rate by one-quarter of one percentage point to 3/4 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 1 per cent and the deposit rate is 1/2 per cent. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
January 9, 2015 Assets Eligible as Collateral under the Bank of Canada’s Standing Liquidity Facility (SLF) - Exceptional Temporary Access to Non-Mortgage Loan Portfolio The Bank of Canada will continue, in exceptional circumstances, to allow participants in the Large Value Transfer System (LVTS) to submit, on a same-day basis, requests to lift the 20 per cent limit of total collateral value pledged that can be the non-mortgage loan portfolio (NMLP). Content Type(s): Press, Market notices