ElasticSearch Score: 9.096903
November 20, 1997
In the last half-year, the economic expansion in Canada has become well established, supported by low inflation, highly stimulative monetary conditions, and a strong U.S. economy.
ElasticSearch Score: 9.051832
April 27, 2006
The Canadian economy continues to grow at a solid pace, consistent with the Bank’s outlook in the January Monetary Policy Report Update.
ElasticSearch Score: 9.001795
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: 8.993789
November 20, 1995
This is the second in a series of semi-annual reports designed to increase the transparency and understanding of Canadian monetary policy.
ElasticSearch Score: 8.962264
November 7, 2001
Two major issues dominate the analysis and policy discussion in this Monetary Policy Report: the nature and extent of the global economic slowdown that began late last year and the consequences of the terrorist attacks in the United States.
ElasticSearch Score: 8.960456
Product standards are omnipresent in industrialized societies. Though standardization can be beneficial for domestic producers, divergent product standards have been categorized as a major obstacle to international trade. This paper quantifies the effect of standard harmonization on trade flows and characterizes the extent to which it changes the cost and demand structure of exporting.
ElasticSearch Score: 8.851321
October 23, 2002
Over the past year, Canada’s economy has outperformed the economies of virtually all the other major industrial countries.
ElasticSearch Score: 8.845311
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: 8.775768
In this paper, we define a financial institution’s contribution to financial systemic risk as the increase in financial systemic risk conditional on the crash of the financial institution. The higher the contribution is, the more systemically important is the institution for the system.
ElasticSearch Score: 8.768538
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.