Publications

• June 29, 2007

  Business Outlook Survey - Summer 2007

  Expectations regarding future sales growth are essentially unchanged from the last survey. Investment and employment intentions have declined from the very high levels reported in the previous survey, but continue to be solid.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Business Outlook Survey
• June 24, 2007

  Price Formation and Liquidity Provision in the Markets for European and Canadian Government Securities

  Financial System Review - June 2007 Chris D'Souza, Ingrid Lo, Stephen Sapp

  Content Type(s): Publications, Financial System Review articles
• June 21, 2007

  Modelling Payments Systems: A Review of the Literature

  Financial System Review - June 2007 Jonathan Chiu, Alexandra Lai

  Content Type(s): Publications, Financial System Review articles
• June 21, 2007

  The Impact of Electronic Trading Platforms on the Brokered Interdealer Market for Government of Canada Benchmark Bonds

  Financial System Review - June 2007 Natasha Khan

  Content Type(s): Publications, Financial System Review articles
• June 21, 2007

  Financial System Review - June 2007

  

  The Financial System Review is one vehicle that the Bank of Canada uses to contribute to the strength of the Canadian financial system. The Developments and Trends section of the Review aims to provide analysis and discussion of current developments and trends in the Canadian financial sector.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Financial Stability Report
• June 17, 2007

  Trend Labour Supply in Canada: Implications of Demographic Shifts and the Increasing Labour Force Attachment of Women

  Bank of Canada Review - Summer 2007 Russell Barnett

  While demographic change has been an ongoing process in Canada, labour market implications of an aging population will become more acute in coming years. This article discusses the anticipated slowing in the growth of trend labour input over the coming decades with the aging of the baby boomers, declining fertility rates, and the stabilization of the labour force attachment of women. As the pool of labour shrinks, employers and governments will be looking for ways to address barriers to continued labour force participation and firms will have a greater incentive to find ways of improving labour productivity.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review articles Topic(s): Economic models, Labour markets, Potential output
• June 15, 2007

  Interpreting Canada's Productivity Performance in the Past Decade: Lessons from Recent Research

  Bank of Canada Review - Summer 2007 Richard Dion

  Dion examines the evolution of Canadian productivity since the mid-1990s, using the United States as a benchmark. During this period, trend productivity growth in Canada remained modest, whereas the U.S. witnessed a strong resurgence. Among the factors identified as potential root causes of Canada's lower productivity performance are a lower investment in information and communications technology, reallocation and adjustment costs associated with large relative price movements, and a weak demand for innovation.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review articles Topic(s): Productivity, Recent economic and financial developments
• June 14, 2007

  Efficiency and Competition in Canadian Banking

  Bank of Canada Review - Summer 2007 Jason Allen, Walter Engert

  Allen and Engert report on recent research at the Bank of Canada on various aspects of efficiency in the Canadian banking industry. This research suggests that, overall, Canadian banks appear to be relatively efficient producers of financial services and they do not exercise monopoly or collusive-oligopoly power. The authors note the value of continuing to investigate opportunities to improve efficiency and competition in financial services in Canada.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review articles Topic(s): Central bank research, Financial institutions, Financial system regulation and policies
• June 14, 2007

  Bank of Canada Review - Summer 2007

  

  Cover page

  Decimalization in Great Britain

  The Victorian florin on the cover is part of the National Currency Collection of the Bank of Canada.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review