G18 - Government Policy and Regulation

• An Assessment of the Bank of Canada's Term PRA Facility

  Staff Working Paper 2010-20 Emanuella Enenajor, Alex Sebastian, Jonathan Witmer

  This paper empirically assesses the effectiveness of the Bank of Canada's term Purchase and Resale Agreement (PRA) facility in reducing short-term bank funding pressures, as measured by the CDOR-OIS spread.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Financial markets, Financial stability JEL Code(s): E, E5, E58, G, G1, G12, G18