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November 17, 1999
Since the May Report, the international economic environment has continued to improve. Economic activity abroad grew faster than expected, while inflation in the major economies remained subdued.
ElasticSearch Score: 6.434962
October 21, 2004
The Canadian economy continues to adjust to major global developments.
ElasticSearch Score: 6.3319955
May 20, 1996
This Report presents the Bank of Canada’s assessment of the trend of inflation in Canada and explains the monetary policy actions deemed necessary to keep inflation within the Bank’s inflation-control target range.
ElasticSearch Score: 6.2872667
November 16, 1998
During the past six months, global economic uncertainties have intensified, largely as a result of developments in emerging-market economies.
ElasticSearch Score: 6.236875
The exponential family, relative entropy, and distortion are methods of transforming probability distributions. We establish a link between those methods, focusing on the relation between relative entropy and distortion.
ElasticSearch Score: 6.039761
May 13, 1998
Canada’s inflation-control targets establish a specific medium-term objective for monetary policy.
ElasticSearch Score: 5.9944377
May 13, 2014
The five articles in this issue present research and analysis by Bank staff covering a variety of topics: the growth of Canadian-dollar-denominated assets in official foreign reserves; the emergence of platform-based digital currencies; methods of forecasting the real price of oil; measures of uncertainty in monetary policy; and the recent performance of the labour market in Canada and the United States.
ElasticSearch Score: 5.8193583
October 22, 2003
In the April Monetary Policy Report, the Bank noted that inflation was well above its 2 per cent target and that short-term inflation expectations had edged up.
ElasticSearch Score: 5.550046
January 29, 1998
With inflation remaining low for the sixth consecutive year, the Canadian economy recorded a strong expansion of about 4 per cent through 1997.
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In our analysis of the US productivity slowdown in the 1970s and 2000s, we find that a significant portion of this deceleration can be attributed to a lack of improvement in allocative efficiency across sectors. Our analysis further identifies increased sector-level volatility as a major contributor to this lack of improvement in allocative efficiency.