Posts

• January 18, 2012

  Release of the Monetary Policy Report

  Opening statement Mark Carney Ottawa, Ontario

  Press conference following the release of the Monetary Policy Report.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
• January 17, 2012

  Bank of Canada maintains overnight rate target at 1 per cent

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 1 1/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 3/4 per cent.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• January 13, 2012

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 13 January 2012

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
• January 9, 2012

  Business Outlook Survey - Winter 2011-12

  Responses to the winter survey suggest that the global economic outlook and concerns about demand continue to weigh on firms’ expectations for business activity.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Business Outlook Survey
• January 9, 2012

  Senior Loan Officer Survey - Fourth-Quarter 2011

  The survey results indicate almost no change in overall business-lending conditions during the fourth quarter of 2011. This follows several consecutive quarters of easing credit conditions for business borrowers.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Senior Loan Officer Survey
• January 6, 2012

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 6 January 2012

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
• December 31, 2011

  Summary of Government of Canada - Outstanding as at 31 December 2011

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Securities and loans

• A Model of the EFA Liabilities

  Staff Discussion Paper 2011-11 Francisco Rivadeneyra, Oumar Dissou

  The authors describe the liabilities model of the Exchange Fund Account (EFA). The EFA is managed using an asset-liability matching framework that requires currency and duration matching of both sides of the balance sheet.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Research Topic(s): Debt management, Foreign reserves management JEL Code(s): G, G1, G12, G3, G32

• Bank Leverage Regulation and Macroeconomic Dynamics

  Staff Working Paper 2011-32 Ian Christensen, Césaire Meh, Kevin Moran

  This paper assesses the merits of countercyclical bank balance sheet regulation for the stabilization of financial and economic cycles and examines its interaction with monetary policy.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Economic models, Financial institutions, Financial system regulation and policies, Monetary policy framework, Monetary policy transmission JEL Code(s): E, E4, E44, E5, E52, G, G2, G21
• December 22, 2011

  Results of the 22 December 2011 Term Repo Operation for Balance Sheet Management Purposes

  Results of today's term repo for balance sheet management purposes operation.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices