October 14, 2016 Weekly Financial Statistics - 14 October 2016 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
October 11, 2016 Standard Terms for Auctions of Government of Canada Ultra Long Bonds On behalf of the Minister of Finance, the Department of Finance and Bank of Canada are releasing today the Standard Terms for Auctions of Government of Canada Ultra Long-Bonds (UL Terms), as well as an overview of the UL Terms. The documents outline the operational framework for potential future issuance of ultra-long bonds via a modified auction format. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
October 7, 2016 Weekly Financial Statistics - 7 October 2016 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
October 7, 2016 Business Outlook Survey - Autumn 2016 The autumn Business Outlook Survey provides some signs of improving business prospects, as resource-related activity appears to be gradually bottoming out and foreign demand is providing steady support to firms’ sales expectations. Content Type(s): Publications, Business Outlook Survey
October 7, 2016 Senior Loan Officer Survey - Third-Quarter 2016 Survey results suggest that overall business-lending conditions were largely unchanged during the third quarter of 2016. Content Type(s): Publications, Senior Loan Officer Survey
October 6, 2016 Both progress and setbacks as economy adjusts, says Senior Deputy Governor Wilkins Media Relations Trois-Rivières, Quebec The Canadian economy is undergoing important, complex adjustments following the drop in oil prices over the past two years and in the context of the longer trends of population aging and modest productivity growth, Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins said today. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
October 6, 2016 Economic Trends and Monetary Policy Remarks Carolyn A. Wilkins Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières, Quebec Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins talks about the major trends of the Canadian economy and how they affect monetary policy. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Domestic demand and components, Inflation and prices, Monetary policy, Recent economic and financial developments, Regional economic developments
Interpreting Volatility Shocks as Preference Shocks Staff Working Paper 2016-45 Shaofeng Xu This paper examines the relationship between volatility shocks and preference shocks in an analytically tractable endogenous growth model with recursive preferences and stochastic volatility. I show that there exists an explicit mapping between volatility shocks and preference shocks, and a rise in volatility generates the same impulse responses of macroeconomic aggregates as a negative preference shock. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Economic models JEL Code(s): E, E2, E3
October 3, 2016 CFIF Meeting (October 3, 2016) Content Type(s): Meetings Source(s): Canadian Fixed-Income Forum