ElasticSearch Score: 14.442681
Household debt can be an important source of vulnerability to the financial system. This technical report describes the Household Risk Assessment Model (HRAM) that has been developed at the Bank of Canada to stress test household balance sheets at the individual level.
ElasticSearch Score: 14.373128
November 9, 2000
Over the last six months, most countries have continued to register strong economic growth.
ElasticSearch Score: 14.27087
We assess how much the recent rate-hike cycle has and will affect mortgage borrowers' consumption through its impacts on mortgage payments. Our analysis provides insights into the effects of changes in monetary policy on the consumption of mortgage borrowers.
ElasticSearch Score: 14.237369
April 24, 2008
Growth in the global economy began to slow in the fourth quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of 2008. This reflected the effects of the slowdown in the U.S. economy and ongoing dislocations in global financial markets.
ElasticSearch Score: 14.226984
May 15, 1995
This is the first in a series of semi-annual reports by the Bank of Canada on Canadian monetary policy.
ElasticSearch Score: 14.182371
May 19, 1999
Six months ago, at the time of the last Monetary Policy Report, the global economic and financial environment was volatile and highly uncertain because of the adverse situation in Asia and the fallout from the Russian debt moratorium.
ElasticSearch Score: 14.166328
This paper introduces and estimates a structural model of the Canadian primary market for government debt. We assess the role of dealer exit in this market as a key reason for increased, yet irregular, customer entry and quantify the benefits of greater customer competition against the costs of higher market volatility.
ElasticSearch Score: 14.152611
Emerging-market economies have become increasingly important in driving global GDP growth over the past 10 to 15 years. This has made timely and accurate assessment of current and future economic activity in emerging markets important for policy-makers not only in these countries but also in advanced economies.
ElasticSearch Score: 14.10653
Should managers be paid in stock options if they provide stock-market participants with information about the firm? This paper studies how firm owners trade off the benefit of stock-price incentives and better-informed market participants against the cost of potential stock-price manipulation.
ElasticSearch Score: 14.095806
May 13, 1998
Canada’s inflation-control targets establish a specific medium-term objective for monetary policy.