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• January 21, 2015

  Monetary Policy Report – January 2015

  

  Economic growth in Canada is expected to average 2.1 per cent in 2015 and 2.4 per cent in 2016, with a return to full capacity around the end of 2016.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Monetary Policy Report

• Measuring Potential Output at the Bank of Canada: The Extended Multivariate Filter and the Integrated Framework

  Staff Discussion Paper 2015-1 Lise Pichette, Pierre St-Amant, Ben Tomlin, Karine Anoma

  Estimating potential output and the output gap - the difference between actual output and its potential - is important for the proper conduct of monetary policy. However, the measurement and interpretation of potential output, and hence the output gap, is fraught with uncertainty, since it is unobservable.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Research Topic(s): Economic models, Inflation and prices, Labour markets, Productivity JEL Code(s): E, E0, E3, E31, E5, E52
• January 16, 2015

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 16 January 2015

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
• January 13, 2015

  Drilling Down - Understanding Oil Prices and Their Economic Impact

  Remarks Timothy Lane Madison International Trade Association (MITA) Madison, Wisconsin

  Deputy Governor Timothy Lane discusses the causes of the recent drop in oil prices and its effects on the global and Canadian economies.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks Research Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Inflation and prices, International topics, Monetary policy, Recent economic and financial developments, Trade integration
• January 12, 2015

  Business Outlook Survey - Winter 2014-15

  The winter Business Outlook Survey continues to provide signs of strengthening demand, especially among export-oriented firms and manufacturers. However, the outlook for businesses that are linked directly or indirectly to the energy sector has deteriorated.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Business Outlook Survey
• January 12, 2015

  Senior Loan Officer Survey - Fourth-Quarter 2014

  The survey results point to nearly unchanged business-lending conditions during the fourth quarter of 2014.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Senior Loan Officer Survey
• January 9, 2015

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 9 January 2015

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

• Immigrants and Mortgage Delinquency in the United States

  Staff Working Paper 2015-1 Zhenguo Lin, Yingchun Liu, Jia Xie

  We investigate the relationship between immigrant status and mortgage delinquency in the United States.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Debt management, Financial stability JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, J, J1, J15
• January 9, 2015

  Assets Eligible as Collateral under the Bank of Canada’s Standing Liquidity Facility (SLF) - Exceptional Temporary Access to Non-Mortgage Loan Portfolio

  The Bank of Canada will continue, in exceptional circumstances, to allow participants in the Large Value Transfer System (LVTS) to submit, on a same-day basis, requests to lift the 20 per cent limit of total collateral value pledged that can be the non-mortgage loan portfolio (NMLP).

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• January 9, 2015

  Historical Assets Eligible as Collateral under the Bank of Canada’s Standing Liquidity Facility – January 9, 2015 to March 30, 2018

  The Bank of Canada, through its Standing Liquidity Facility (SLF), provides access to liquidity to those institutions that participate directly in the Large Value Transfer System (LVTS).

  Content Type(s): Collateral Policy Source(s): Standing Liquidity Facility