January 17, 2014 Weekly Financial Statistics - 17 January 2014 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
January 13, 2014 Business Outlook Survey - Winter 2013-14 The winter Business Outlook Survey provides some positive signs for the economic outlook, notably for exports and investment, although responses do not yet appear to suggest a significant strengthening. For many businesses, weak demand and domestic uncertainty continue to temper sales expectations and expansion plans. Content Type(s): Publications, Business Outlook Survey
January 13, 2014 Senior Loan Officer Survey - Fourth-Quarter 2013 The survey, conducted between 9 and 16 December, pointed to a continued slight easing in overall business-lending conditions during the fourth quarter of 2013. Content Type(s): Publications, Senior Loan Officer Survey
January 10, 2014 Weekly Financial Statistics - 10 January 2014 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
January 3, 2014 Weekly Financial Statistics - 3 January 2014 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
December 31, 2013 Summary of Government of Canada - Outstanding as at 31 December 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Securities and loans
December 30, 2013 Weekly Financial Statistics - 30 December 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
Cash Management and Payment Choices: A Simulation Model with International Comparisons Staff Working Paper 2013-53 Carlos Arango, Yassine Bouhdaoui, David Bounie, Martina Eschelbach, Lola Hernández Despite various payment innovations, today, cash is still heavily used to pay for low-value purchases. This paper develops a simulation model to test whether standard implications of the theory on cash management and payment choices can explain the use of payment instruments by transaction size. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Bank notes, Financial services, International topics JEL Code(s): C, C6, C61, E, E4, E41, E47
Do Oil Price Increases Cause Higher Food Prices? Staff Working Paper 2013-52 Christiane Baumeister, Lutz Kilian U.S. retail food price increases in recent years may seem large in nominal terms, but after adjusting for inflation have been quite modest even after the change in U.S. biofuel policies in 2006. In contrast, increases in the real prices of corn, soybeans, wheat and rice received by U.S. farmers have been more substantial and can be linked in part to increases in the real price of oil. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Inflation and prices, International topics JEL Code(s): E, E3, E31, Q, Q1, Q11, Q4, Q42, Q43
Regime Switches in the Risk-Return Trade-Off Staff Working Paper 2013-51 Eric Ghysels, Pierre Guérin, Massimiliano Marcellino This paper deals with the estimation of the risk-return trade-off. We use a MIDAS model for the conditional variance and allow for possible switches in the risk-return relation through a Markov-switching specification. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Financial markets JEL Code(s): G, G1, G10, G12