December 10, 2013 Financial System Review - December 2013 There have been positive developments in the global financial system since the June Financial System Review, in part reflecting some encouraging signs about the global economy. At the same time, significant vulnerabilities remain. The Governing Council judges that the overall risk to the stability of Canada’s financial system has decreased from “high” to “elevated” over the past six months. Content Type(s): Publications, Financial Stability Report
December 6, 2013 Discussions on Changes to Margining Policy for Cross-Currency Swaps The Department of Finance and the Bank of Canada will begin bilateral discussions with market counterparties with respect to changes to the margining policy for the cross-currency swaps used to fund Canada’s foreign exchange reserves held in the Government’s Exchange Fund Account. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
December 6, 2013 Weekly Financial Statistics - 6 December 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
December 5, 2013 Senior Deputy Governor Tiff Macklem will leave the Bank in May 2014 Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario Senior Deputy Governor Tiff Macklem has announced that he will resign from the Bank of Canada next spring to become Dean of University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
December 4, 2013 Bank of Canada maintains overnight rate target at 1 per cent Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 1 1/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 3/4 per cent. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
November 30, 2013 Research Update - November 2013 This monthly newsletter features the latest research publications by Bank of Canada economists including external publications and working papers published on the Bank of Canada’s website. Content Type(s): Staff research, Research newsletters
November 29, 2013 Weekly Financial Statistics - 29 November 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
November 28, 2013 Banking and Financial Statistics - November 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Banking and Financial Statistics
November 22, 2013 Weekly Financial Statistics - 22 November 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
Expectations and Monetary Policy: Experimental Evidence Staff Working Paper 2013-44 Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Luba Petersen The effectiveness of monetary policy depends, to a large extent, on market expectations of its future actions. In a standard New Keynesian business-cycle model with rational expectations, systematic monetary policy reduces the variance of inflation and the output gap by at least two-thirds. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Monetary policy implementation, Monetary policy transmission JEL Code(s): C, C9, D, D8, D84, E, E3, E5, E52