Posts

• October 27, 2015

  Inflation Targeting—A Matter of Time

  Remarks Timothy Lane CFA Society Atlantic Canada Halifax, Nova Scotia

  Deputy Governor Tim Lane discusses monetary policy decision making and how the Bank assesses the underlying trend in inflation.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks Research Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Exchange rates, Inflation and prices, Inflation targets, Monetary and financial indicators, Monetary policy framework
• October 27, 2015

  Results of the 28-day and 85-day 27 October 2015 Term Repo Operation

  Results of today's term repo operation.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices

• A Comprehensive Evaluation of Measures of Core Inflation for Canada

  Staff Discussion Paper 2015-12 Mikael Khan, Louis Morel, Patrick Sabourin

  This paper evaluates the usefulness of various measures of core inflation for the conduct of monetary policy. Traditional exclusion-based measures of core inflation are found to perform relatively poorly across a range of evaluation criteria, in part due to their inability to filter unanticipated transitory shocks.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Research Topic(s): Inflation and prices, Monetary policy framework JEL Code(s): E, E3, E31, E5, E52
• October 27, 2015

  Bank of Canada Announces the Minimum Bid Rate for today's Term Repo operation

  Bank of Canada Announces the Minimum Bid Rate for today's Term Repo operation

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• October 26, 2015

  Bank of Canada Announces Details of its Term Repo Operations

  The Bank of Canada announced today that it will conduct term repo operations.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• October 26, 2015

  Payments System Modernization: Opportunities & Challenges

  Bank of Canada Conference held on October 26, 2015.

  Content Type(s): Conferences and workshops Research Topic(s): Digital currencies and fintech
• October 26, 2015

  Deputy Governor Agathe Côté to retire from the Bank of Canada

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada announced today that Deputy Governor Agathe Côté will retire at the end of January 2016.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• October 23, 2015

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 23 October 2015

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics

• Domestic and Multilateral Effects of Capital Controls in Emerging Markets

  Staff Working Paper 2015-37 Gurnain Pasricha, Matteo Falagiarda, Martin Bijsterbosch, Joshua Aizenman

  Using a novel data set on capital control actions in 17 emerging-market economies (EMEs) over the period 2001–11, we provide new evidence on domestic and multilateral (or spillover) effects of capital controls.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Financial system regulation and policies, International financial markets, International topics, Monetary policy framework JEL Code(s): F, F3, F32, F4, F41, F42, G, G1, G15

• Trends in Firm Entry and New Entrepreneurship in Canada

  Staff Discussion Paper 2015-11 Shutao Cao, Mohanad Salameh, Mai Seki, Pierre St-Amant

  Recently released data show downward trends for both the firm entry rate and the rate of new entrepreneurship since the early 1980s in Canada. This paper documents these trends and discusses potential explanations.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Research Topic(s): Firm dynamics, Market structure and pricing, Productivity JEL Code(s): L, L1, L11, M, M1, M13