March 14, 2016 Bank of Canada Announces Details of its Term Repo Operations The Bank of Canada announced today that it will conduct term repo operations. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
Predictive Ability of Commodity Prices for the Canadian Dollar Staff Analytical Note 2016-2 Kimberly Berg, Pierre Guérin, Yuko Imura Recent sharp declines in commodity prices and the simultaneous depreciation of the Canadian dollar (CAD) relative to the U.S. dollar (USD) have rekindled an interest in the relationship between commodity prices and the CAD-USD exchange rate. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff analytical notes Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Exchange rates
A Framework in Search of an Optimal Margining Policy for Official Institutions: The Canadian Experience Staff Discussion Paper 2016-9 Tomo Nakashima, Mihai Cosma, Boran Plong One of the main outcomes of the global financial crisis has been a series of new regulations imposed on the financial system and specifically on banks. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Financial markets, Foreign reserves management JEL Code(s): G, G3, G32
March 11, 2016 Weekly Financial Statistics - 11 March 2016 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
Canadian Repo Market Ecology Staff Discussion Paper 2016-8 Corey Garriott, Kyle Gray This is the first of the Financial Markets Department’s descriptions of Canadian financial industrial organization. The document discusses the organization of the repurchase-agreement (repo) market in Canada. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial markets, Financial system regulation and policies, Market structure and pricing JEL Code(s): G, G1, G18, G2, G21, G23
The Dynamics of Capital Flow Episodes Staff Working Paper 2016-9 Christian Friedrich, Pierre Guérin This paper proposes a novel methodology for identifying episodes of strong capital flows based on a regime-switching model. In comparison with the existing literature, a key advantage of our methodology is to estimate capital flow regimes without the need for context- and sample-specific assumptions. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, International financial markets, International topics, Monetary policy and uncertainty JEL Code(s): F, F2, F21, F3, F32, G, G1, G11