Posts

• October 4, 2010

  Policy instrument

  Data and definitions
• October 4, 2010

  Inflation-control target

  Data and definitions
• September 30, 2010

  Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney Discusses Employment in a Modest Recovery

  Media Relations Windsor, Ontario

  The global economy is entering a new phase of unusual uncertainty and the recovery can be expected to be modest and uneven, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney told the Windsor-Essex Chamber of Commerce today.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• September 30, 2010

  Employment in a Modest Recovery

  Remarks Mark Carney Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce, Giovanni Caboto Club Windsor, Ontario

  Insights from financial markets are somewhat fleeting at the moment. A broad range of asset prices from the Canadian dollar to S&P500 futures to European sovereign spreads are unusually correlated and volatile.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
• September 23, 2010

  Information sheet

  Data sources for indicators of capacity and inflation pressures for Canada
• September 23, 2010

  Authors

  Listing of current and past authors of Bank research papers, articles and other publications, 1994 to present.

• Liquidity, Risk, and Return: Specifying an Objective Function for the Management of Foreign Reserves

  Staff Discussion Paper 2010-13 Yuliya Romanyuk

  An objective function is a key component of a strategic portfolio management model used to determine the optimal allocations of assets and, possibly, their associated liabilities over some investment horizon.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Research Topic(s): Foreign reserves management JEL Code(s): G, G1, G11
• September 20, 2010

  Browse research

  Find Bank of Canada research by keyword, author, content type, JEL code, topic or date of publication.

• Nowcasting the Global Economy

  Staff Discussion Paper 2010-12 James Rossiter

  Forecasts of global economic activity and inflation are important inputs when conducting monetary policy in small open economies such as Canada. As part of the Bank of Canada's broad agenda to augment its short-term forecasting tools, the author constructs simple mixed-frequency forecasting equations for quarterly global output, imports, and inflation using the monthly global Purchasing Managers Index (PMI).

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Research Topic(s): Economic models, International topics JEL Code(s): E, E3, E37, F, F4, F47
• September 16, 2010

  Issues in Inflation Targeting: Summary

  Proceedings of a conference held by the Bank of Canada, April 2005