September 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
August 30, 2013 Weekly Financial Statistics - 30 August 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
August 30, 2013 Research Update - August 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
August 29, 2013 Banking and Financial Statistics - August 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Banking and Financial Statistics
August 29, 2013 Quarterly Financial Report - Second Quarter 2013 Quarterly Financial Report - Second Quarter 2013 - For the period ended 30 June 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Quarterly Financial Report
August 27, 2013 Exits, Spillovers and Monetary Policy Independence Remarks John Murray Canadian Association for Business Economics Kingston, Ontario Deputy Governor John Murray discusses exits from unconventional monetary policies, spillovers and monetary policy independence. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
August 23, 2013 Weekly Financial Statistics - 23 August 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
August 20, 2013 Changes to the Terms and Conditions Governing the Morning Auction of Receiver General Cash Balances The Bank of Canada, on behalf of the Government of Canada, today announced changes to the Terms and Conditions Governing the Morning Auction of Receiver General Cash Balances (the Terms), effective 1 April 2014. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
August 20, 2013 Bank of Canada Announces the Recipients of its 2013 Law Enforcement Award of Excellence for Counterfeit Deterrence Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2013 Law Enforcement Award of Excellence for Counterfeit Deterrence. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases Topic(s): Bank notes
Volatility and Liquidity Costs Staff Working Paper 2013-29 Selma Chaker Observed high-frequency prices are contaminated with liquidity costs or market microstructure noise. Using such data, we derive a new asset return variance estimator inspired by the market microstructure literature to explicitly model the noise and remove it from observed returns before estimating their variance. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Financial markets, Market structure and pricing JEL Code(s): C, C1, C14, C5, C51, C58, G, G2, G20