August 31, 2010 Survey of Activity in Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Markets in Canada During April 2010 Media Relations This document is in PDF only. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
August 26, 2010 1954 series Design changes to this third series of Bank of Canada notes included moving the portrait off centre and to the right, simplifying the line work, and integrating Canada’s coat of arms into the background design.
August 25, 2010 Indicators related to market operations A table of indicators related to the implementation of monetary policy that includes the operating band, settlement balances and other Bank of Canada operations.
August 24, 2010 Re-examining Canada’s Monetary Policy Framework: Recent Research and Outstanding Issues Remarks John Murray Canadian Association for Business Economics Kingston, Ontario I am honoured to address members of the Canadian Association for Business Economics. My remarks today will focus on critical issues that the Bank of Canada has studied over the past four years and how this research will inform our work as we move forward post crisis. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
Evaluating the Effect of the Bank of Canada's Conditional Commitment Policy Staff Discussion Paper 2010-11 Zhongfang He The author evaluates the effect of the Bank of Canada's conditional commitment regarding the target overnight rate on longer-term market interest rates by taking into account the relationship between interest rates, inflation, and unemployment rates. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Interest rates, Monetary policy implementation, Monetary policy transmission JEL Code(s): E, E4, E5, E6
August 24, 2010 Bank of Canada Announces the Recipients of Its 2010 Law Enforcement Award of Excellence for Counterfeit Deterrence Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2010 Law Enforcement Award of Excellence for Counterfeit Deterrence. The award was established in 2004 to recognize the work of Canadian law-enforcement personnel in deterring and preventing the counterfeiting of Canada's bank notes. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
Liquidity Transformation and Bank Capital Requirements Staff Working Paper 2010-22 Hajime Tomura This paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model where asymmetric information about asset quality leads to asset illiquidity. Banking arises endogenously in this environment as banks can pool illiquid assets to average out their idiosyncratic qualities and issue liquid liabilities backed by pooled assets whose total quality is public information. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial stability, Financial system regulation and policies JEL Code(s): D, D8, D82, E, E4, E44, G, G2, G21
August 23, 2010 Scenes of Canada series Often dubbed the “multicoloured series,” these bank notes were released beginning in 1969 in response to growing concerns about counterfeiting.
August 20, 2010 Bank notes: Multimedia Access videos about our bank notes, along with images past and present. Images in this gallery are available for non-commercial use only.