Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada, gave an interview to Mark Rendell of the Globe and Mail, which will be published online and in the newspaper.
Governor Tiff Macklem discusses the Bank of Canada’s role in ensuring the stability of money in all its forms, from currency to digital payments. He also outlines how keeping inflation low and stable ensures Canadian money retains its purchasing power.
This note presents PULSE, a new measure of underlying inflation in Canada based on a dynamic factor model estimated on disaggregated inflation data. PULSE captures the persistent component of inflation and decomposes it into broad-based and sector-specific inflationary pressures.
This paper shows that regional disparities in house price growth are more pronounced during house price busts than during booms. To explain this observation we construct a two-region currency union model incorporating a housing sector and extrapolative belief updating regarding house prices. To solve the model, we propose a new method that efficiently handles extrapolative belief updating in a wide class of structural models.
The Bank of Canada has reviewed the content of the FX Global Code (“Code”) and acknowledges that the Code represents a set of principles generally recognised as good practice in the wholesale foreign exchange market.