Staff research, Publications

• July 4, 2016

  Business Outlook Survey - Summer 2016

  The summer Business Outlook Survey indicates that overall business sentiment is subdued. The boost from foreign demand remains insufficient to outweigh the continued drag from commodity-related activity combined with modest domestic demand.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Business Outlook Survey
• July 4, 2016

  Senior Loan Officer Survey - Second-Quarter 2016

  Survey results suggest that overall business-lending conditions continued to tighten during the second quarter of 2016 for both price and non-price conditions.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Senior Loan Officer Survey
• June 30, 2016

  Research Update - June 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
• June 30, 2016

  Banking and Financial Statistics - June 2016

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Banking and Financial Statistics

• Financial Crisis Interventions

  Staff Working Paper 2016-29 Josef Schroth

  This paper develops a model of an economy where bank credit supports both productive investment and individual consumption smoothing in the face of idiosyncratic income risk. Bank credit is constrained by bank equity capital.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Credit and credit aggregates, Financial stability, Financial system regulation and policies, Lender of last resort JEL Code(s): E, E1, E13, E3, E32, E4, E44
• June 24, 2016

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 24 June 2016

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

• The Real-Time Properties of the Bank of Canada’s Staff Output Gap Estimates

  Staff Working Paper 2016-28 Julien Champagne, Guillaume Poulin-Bellisle, Rodrigo Sekkel

  We study the revision properties of the Bank of Canada’s staff output gap estimates since the mid-1980s. Our results suggest that the average staff output gap revision has decreased significantly over the past 15 years, in line with recent evidence for the U.S.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Central bank research, Econometric and statistical methods, Potential output JEL Code(s): C, C3, C38, E, E1, E17, E3, E32
• June 17, 2016

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 17 June 2016

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

• Clearing and Settlement Systems from Around the World: A Qualitative Analysis

  Staff Discussion Paper 2016-14 Michael Tompkins, Ariel Olivares

  As Canada continues to engage in a dialogue to develop the approach to modernizing its core payment systems, we analyze the core payment systems that exist in countries around the world. We study payment systems in 27 jurisdictions, encompassing a broad range of geographic regions, through three levels of analysis.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Research Topic(s): Financial services, Financial system regulation and policies, Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): E, E4, E42, L, L1, L14, L15, L5, L52
• June 10, 2016

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 10 June 2016

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