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• October 19, 2016

  Monetary Policy Report – October 2016

  

  Growth in the Canadian economy is expected to increase from 1.1 per cent this year to about 2.0 per cent in 2017 and 2018.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Monetary Policy Report
• October 14, 2016

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 14 October 2016

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
• October 11, 2016

  Standard Terms for Auctions of Government of Canada Ultra Long Bonds

  On behalf of the Minister of Finance, the Department of Finance and Bank of Canada are releasing today the Standard Terms for Auctions of Government of Canada Ultra Long-Bonds (UL Terms), as well as an overview of the UL Terms. The documents outline the operational framework for potential future issuance of ultra-long bonds via a modified auction format.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• October 7, 2016

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 7 October 2016

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
• October 7, 2016

  Business Outlook Survey - Autumn 2016

  The autumn Business Outlook Survey provides some signs of improving business prospects, as resource-related activity appears to be gradually bottoming out and foreign demand is providing steady support to firms’ sales expectations.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Business Outlook Survey
• October 7, 2016

  Senior Loan Officer Survey - Third-Quarter 2016

  Survey results suggest that overall business-lending conditions were largely unchanged during the third quarter of 2016.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Senior Loan Officer Survey
• October 6, 2016

  Both progress and setbacks as economy adjusts, says Senior Deputy Governor Wilkins

  Media Relations Trois-Rivières, Quebec

  The Canadian economy is undergoing important, complex adjustments following the drop in oil prices over the past two years and in the context of the longer trends of population aging and modest productivity growth, Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins said today.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• October 6, 2016

  Economic Trends and Monetary Policy

  Remarks Carolyn A. Wilkins Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières, Quebec

  Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins talks about the major trends of the Canadian economy and how they affect monetary policy.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks Research Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Domestic demand and components, Inflation and prices, Monetary policy, Recent economic and financial developments, Regional economic developments

• Interpreting Volatility Shocks as Preference Shocks

  Staff Working Paper 2016-45 Shaofeng Xu

  This paper examines the relationship between volatility shocks and preference shocks in an analytically tractable endogenous growth model with recursive preferences and stochastic volatility. I show that there exists an explicit mapping between volatility shocks and preference shocks, and a rise in volatility generates the same impulse responses of macroeconomic aggregates as a negative preference shock.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Economic models JEL Code(s): E, E2, E3
• October 3, 2016

  CFIF Meeting (October 3, 2016)

  Content Type(s): Meetings Source(s): Canadian Fixed-Income Forum