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• January 31, 2016

  Research Update - January 2016

  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
• January 29, 2016

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 29 January 2016

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
• January 29, 2016

  Bank of Canada Announces Higher Target for Settlement Balances to Reinforce the Target for the Overnight Rate

  Effective Friday, 29 January 2016, the Bank is increasing the target for the minimum daily level of settlement balances to $500 million, from its current level of $150 million. This measure will remain in effect until further notice.

  Content Type(s): Market notices
• January 28, 2016

  Change to the Standard Terms for Auctions of Government of Canada Marketable Bonds and Terms and Conditions Governing the Morning Auction of Receiver General Cash Balances

  The Department of Finance and the Bank of Canada have updated the rule for determining the coupon rates of Government of Canada nominal bonds.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• January 28, 2016

  Banking and Financial Statistics - January 2016

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Banking and Financial Statistics
• January 25, 2016

  CFIF Meeting (January 25, 2016)

  Content Type(s): Meetings Source(s): Canadian Fixed-Income Forum
• January 22, 2016

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 22 January 2016

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics

• Agency Costs, Risk Shocks and International Cycles

  Staff Working Paper 2016-2 Marc-André Letendre, Joel Wagner

  We add agency costs as in Carlstrom and Fuerst (1997) into a two-country, two-good international business-cycle model. In our model, changes in the relative price of investment arise endogenously.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, International topics JEL Code(s): E, E2, E22, E3, E32, E4, E44, F, F4, F44

• Reconciling the Differences in Aggregate U.S. Wage Series

  Staff Working Paper 2016-1 Julien Champagne, André Kurmann, Jay Stewart

  Average hourly real wage series from the Labor Productivity and Costs (LPC) program and the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program have evolved very differently over the past decades.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Labour markets JEL Code(s): E, E0, E01, E2, E24, E3, E30, J, J3, J30
• January 21, 2016

  Results of the 27-day and 84-day 21 January 2016 Term Repo Operation

  Results of today's term repo operation.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices