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• October 2, 2020

  CORRA Advisory Group: Terms of Reference

  As per the Bank of Canada methodology for calculating CORRA, the CORRA Advisory Group (CAG) has been established to advise the Bank’s CORRA Oversight Committee on any potential adjustments to the CORRA methodology, stemming from changes in repo market functioning and from any emerging methodology issues, as well as on any changes undertaken as part of regular methodology reviews.
• October 2, 2020

  CORRA Advisory Group

  Find out about our mandate, access our meetings and membership, or contact us.
• October 1, 2020

  Background information on foreign exchange rates

  Learn about the publication of, and calculation methodology for, the foreign exchange (FX) rate data on the Bank of Canada’s website.
• October 1, 2020

  Background information on foreign exchange rates

  Learn about the publication of, and calculation methodology for, the foreign exchange (FX) rate data on the Bank of Canada’s website.

  Content Type(s): Background materials Research Topic(s): Exchange rates
• September 30, 2020

  Interim RPAC Meeting (September 30, 2020)

  Topic: Significant changes and incidents

  Content Type(s): Meetings Source(s): Retail Payments Advisory Committee
• September 30, 2020

  Research Update - September 2020

  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

• Interbank Asset-Liability Networks with Fire Sale Management

  Staff Working Paper 2020-41 Zachary Feinstein, Grzegorz Halaj

  Raising liquidity when funding is stressed creates pressure on the financial market. Liquidating large quantities of assets depresses their prices and may amplify funding shocks. How do banks weathering a funding crisis contribute to contagion risk?

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Financial stability, Financial system regulation and policies, Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): C, C6, C62, C63, C7, C72, G, G0, G01, G1, G11

• Forward Guidance and Expectation Formation: A Narrative Approach

  Staff Working Paper 2020-40 Christopher S. Sutherland

  How exactly does forward guidance influence interest rate expectations?

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Central bank research, Monetary policy, Monetary policy communications, Monetary policy transmission JEL Code(s): D, D8, D83, D84, E, E3, E37, E5, E52, E58
• September 23, 2020

  Conference on Diversity and Inclusion in Economics, Finance, and Central Banking

  Jointly sponsored by the Bank of Canada, Bank of England, European Central Bank and Federal Reserve Board, the conference was held on September 23 and 24, 2020 at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

  Content Type(s): Conferences and workshops

• The New Benchmark for Forecasts of the Real Price of Crude Oil

  Staff Working Paper 2020-39 Amor Aniss Benmoussa, Reinhard Ellwanger, Stephen Snudden

  How can we assess the quality of a forecast? We propose a new benchmark to evaluate forecasts of temporally aggregated series and show that the real price of oil is more difficult to predict than we thought.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, International topics JEL Code(s): C, C1, C5, C53, Q, Q4, Q47