March 20, 2023 Bank of Canada announces the recipients of the 2023 Fellowship Program Awards Learn about the recipients of the Fellowship and Governor’s Awards for 2023. Content Type(s): Press, Announcements Source(s): Fellowship Program
March 20, 2023 2023 Fellowship Program: Award recipients The Bank of Canada is pleased to announce the recipients of the Bank’s 2023 Fellowship Award and Governor’s Award.
March 19, 2023 Coordinated Central Bank Action to Enhance the Provision of U.S. Dollar Liquidity The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, and the Swiss National Bank are today announcing a coordinated action to enhance the provision of liquidity via the standing U.S. dollar liquidity swap line arrangements. Content Type(s): Press, Announcements
Persistent Debt and Business Cycles in an Economy with Production Heterogeneity Staff Working Paper 2023-17 Aubhik Khan, Soyoung Lee We examine the role of debt in amplifying and propagating recessions. Firms’ debt adjustment makes recessions deeper but makes expansions gradual. In particular, when the aggregate business leverage is ten percentage points above average, the half-life of the recovery doubles. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Firm dynamics, Productivity JEL Code(s): E, E2, E23, E3, E30, E32
March 13, 2023 Law Enforcement Award of Excellence for Counterfeit Deterrence The call for nominations is open until April 21, 2023. Content Type(s): Press, Announcements
Cost Pass-Through with Capacity Constraints and International Linkages Staff Working Paper 2023-16 Reinhard Ellwanger, Hinnerk Gnutzmann, Piotr Śpiewanowski How are regional cost shocks passed through into global prices? We investigate the role of short-run capacity constraints and show that they can induce stark non-linearities in the pass-through. We highlight this effect for the market for ammonia, a commodity produced largely from natural gas. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Climate change, Econometric and statistical methods, Inflation and prices, International topics JEL Code(s): L, L1, L13, L6, L65, Q, Q4, Q40, Q5, Q54