Posts

• June 21, 2019

  Resolution regime for Canada’s financial market infrastructures

  The Bank of Canada is the resolution authority for Canadian financial market infrastructures (FMIs) that have been designated by the Governor under the Payment Clearing and Settlement Act (PCSA).

• Systemic Risk and Collateral Adequacy

  Staff working paper 2019-23 Radoslav Raykov

  Many derivatives markets use collateral requirements calculated with industry-standard but dated methods that are not designed with systemic risk in mind. This paper explores whether the conservative nature of conventional collateral requirements outweighs their lack of consideration of systemic risk.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers JEL Code(s): G, G1, G10, G2, G20 Research Theme(s): Financial markets and funds management, Market functioning, Financial system, Financial stability and systemic risk, Money and payments, Payment and financial market infrastructures
• June 17, 2019

  Flexible Exchange Rates, Commodity Prices and Price Stability

  Remarks Lawrence L. Schembri Economics Society of Northern Alberta (ESNA) Edmonton, Alberta

  Deputy Governor Lawrence Schembri speaks before the Economics Society of Northern Alberta (ESNA).

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks Subject(s): Financial system, Financial markets, Monetary policy, Economy/Economic growth, Inflation, Inflation targeting framework
• June 17, 2019

  The merits of a floating exchange rate

  Speech summary Lawrence L. Schembri Economics Society of Northern Alberta (ESNA) Edmonton, Alberta

  Deputy Governor Lawrence Schembri explains how Canada’s monetary policy framework—inflation targeting underpinned by a flexible exchange rate—has proved to be the most durable in the post-war period.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Speech summaries Subject(s): Financial system, Financial markets, Monetary policy, Economy/Economic growth, Inflation targeting framework

• Online Privacy and Information Disclosure by Consumers

  Staff working paper 2019-22 Shota Ichihashi

  A consumer discloses information to a multi-product seller, which learns about the consumer’s preferences, sets prices, and makes product recommendations. While the consumer benefits from accurate product recommendations, the seller may use the information to price discriminate.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers JEL Code(s): D, D8, D82, D83 Research Theme(s): Financial markets and funds management, Market functioning, Models and tools, Economic models, Structural challenges, Digitalization and productivity

• Central Bank Communication That Works: Lessons from Lab Experiments

  Staff working paper 2019-21 Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Luba Petersen

  We use controlled laboratory experiments to test the causal effects of central bank communication on economic expectations and to distinguish the underlying mechanisms of those effects. In an experiment where subjects learn to forecast economic variables, we find that central bank communication has a stabilizing effect on individual and aggregate outcomes and that the size of the effect varies with the type of communication.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers JEL Code(s): C, C9, D, D8, D84, E, E3, E5, E52 Research Theme(s): Models and tools, Econometric, statistical and computational methods, Economic models, Monetary policy, Monetary policy framework and transmission, Monetary policy tools and implementation

• Outlook for Electric Vehicles and Implications for the Oil Market

  Staff analytical note 2019-19 Étienne Latulippe, Kun Mo

  The market for electric vehicles (EVs) is growing rapidly. Subsidies and technological improvements are expected to increase the market share of EVs over the coming decade. In its base-case scenario, the International Energy Agency (IEA) expects EV use to rise from 4 million vehicles in 2018 to 120 million by 2030, or from 0.3 per cent to over 7 per cent of the global car fleet.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff analytical notes JEL Code(s): Q, Q4, Q47 Research Theme(s): Monetary policy, Real economy and forecasting, Structural challenges, Climate change, International trade, finance and competitiveness

• Online Job Seekers in Canada: What Can We Learn from Bing Job Queries?

  Staff analytical note 2019-18 André Binette, Karyne B. Charbonneau, Nicholas Curtis, Gabriela Galassi, Scott Counts, Justin Cranshaw

  Labour markets in Canada and around the world are evolving rapidly with the digital economy. Traditional data are adapting gradually but are not yet able to provide timely information on this evolution.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff analytical notes JEL Code(s): C, C8, C80, E, E2, E24, J, J2, J21 Research Theme(s): Monetary policy, Real economy and forecasting, Structural challenges, Demographics and labour supply

• A Structural Model of the Global Oil Market

  Staff analytical note 2019-17 Reinhard Ellwanger

  This note presents a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model of the global oil market. The model identifies four types of shocks with different economic interpretations: oil supply shocks, oil-market-specific demand shocks, storage demand shocks and shocks to global economic growth.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff analytical notes JEL Code(s): Q, Q4, Q41, Q43 Research Theme(s): Models and tools, Economic models, Monetary policy, Inflation dynamics and pressures, Real economy and forecasting
• June 4, 2019

  CFIF Meeting (June 4, 2019)

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