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• March 31, 2010

  The Bank of Canada Releases Its Annual Report for 2009

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada's Annual Report for 2009 was tabled in the House of Commons today.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• March 29, 2010

  Beyond Recovery: Sustaining Economic Growth

  Remarks Paul Jenkins Economic Club of Canada Toronto, Ontario

  John Maynard Keynes said the objective of "analysis is … to provide ourselves with an organized and orderly method of thinking out particular problems .… This is the nature of economic thinking."

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
• March 24, 2010

  The Virtue of Productivity in a Wicked World

  Remarks Mark Carney Ottawa Economics Association Ottawa, Ontario

  It is either brave or foolhardy of the Ottawa Economics Association to organize another conference around Canada's perennial challenges of demographics, productivity, and potential growth.

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

• Market Expectations and Option Prices: Evidence for the Can$/US$ Exchange Rate

  Staff Discussion Paper 2010-2 Alejandro García, Andrei Prokopiw

  Security prices contain valuable information that can be used to make a wide variety of economic decisions. To extract this information, a model is required that relates market prices to the desired information, and that ideally can be implemented using timely and low-cost methods.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Research Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Exchange rates, Financial markets JEL Code(s): C, C0, C00, C02, G, G1, G13
• March 15, 2010

  Results of the 15 March 2010 Term PRA Transaction

  The results of today's term PRA operations.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• March 15, 2010

  Bank of Canada Announces Recipients of 2010 Fellowship and Governor's Awards

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today announced that Professor Paul Beaudry of the University of British Columbia is the recipient of the Bank's Research Fellowship for 2010.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases Source(s): Fellowship Program
• March 12, 2010

  Bank of Canada Announces Details of its Term PRA Operation

  In accordance with the schedule of term purchase and resale agreement (PRA) auctions announced on 19 January (see schedule), the Bank of Canada announced today that it will conduct a term PRA operation.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• March 11, 2010

  Bank of Canada: 75 Years Today

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the opening of its doors for business and to mark the occasion, Governor Mark Carney met with economics students from across Canada.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• March 11, 2010

  Principles for Interesting Times

  Remarks Mark Carney Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario

  I would like to thank students from universities across Canada for joining me on this special day, the 75th anniversary of the Bank of Canada

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
• March 10, 2010

  Bank of Canada announces Deputy Governor Appointment

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  Board of Directors of the Bank of Canada today announced the appointment of Jean Boivin as Deputy Governor and member of the Governing Council of the Bank effective 1 April.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases