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• January 23, 2013

  Release of the Monetary Policy Report

  Opening statement Mark Carney Ottawa, Ontario

  Press conference following the release of the Monetary Policy Report.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
• January 23, 2013

  Bank of Canada maintains overnight rate target at 1 per cent

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 1 1/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 3/4 per cent.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• January 23, 2013

  Monetary Policy Report – January 2013

  

  Following an estimated 1.9 per cent in 2012, the Canadian economy is expected to grow by 2.0 per cent in 2013 and 2.7 per cent in 2014, and to reach full capacity in the second half of 2014, later than anticipated in the October Report.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Monetary Policy Report
• January 18, 2013

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 18 January 2013

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
• January 17, 2013

  Bank of Canada Announces Change in Receiver General Cash Balances Auction Timeline

  The Bank of Canada announced today that as a result of the change in the publication time of policy interest rate announcements to 10:00 ET , that effective 23 January 2013, the Government of Canada bidding deadline for Receiver General Cash Balance auctions will be 10:15 ET on policy rate announcement dates.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• January 14, 2013

  Senior Loan Officer Survey - Fourth-Quarter 2012

  The survey results indicate that there was virtually no change in overall business-lending conditions during the fourth quarter of 2012, following several con­secutive quarters of easing in credit conditions.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Senior Loan Officer Survey
• January 14, 2013

  Business Outlook Survey - Winter 2012-13

  While some forward-looking indicators have moved up, many firms cited concerns about demand over next year and pressures from increased competition.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Business Outlook Survey
• January 11, 2013

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 11 January 2013

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
• January 10, 2013

  Regearing Our Economic Growth

  Remarks Tiff Macklem Queen’s University - W. Edmund Clark Distinguished Lecture Kingston, Ontario

  Senior Deputy Governor Tiff Macklem discusses regearing the Canadian economy for sustained growth.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks

• Real-financial Linkages through Loan Default and Bank Capital

  Staff Working Paper 2013-3 Tamon Takamura

  Many studies in macroeconomics argue that financial frictions do not amplify the impacts of real shocks. This finding is based on models without endogenous default on loans and bank capital. Using a model featuring endogenous interactions between firm default and bank capital, this paper revisits the propagation mechanisms of real and financial shocks.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial stability, Financial system regulation and policies, Interest rates JEL Code(s): E, E3, E32, E4, E44, E6, E69