Posts

• April 23, 2003

  Bank of Canada releases Monetary Policy Report

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  Since the October 2002 Monetary Policy Report, both core and total CPI inflation have been well above the 2 per cent inflation target.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• April 23, 2003

  Monetary Policy Report – April 2003

  The global economic outlook has been clouded by a high degree of uncertainty, accentuated most recently by the war in Iraq.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Monetary Policy Report
• April 15, 2003

  Bank of Canada raises overnight rate target by 1/4 percentage point to 3 1/4 per cent

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today announced that it is raising its target for the overnight rate by one-quarter of one percentage point to 3 1/4 per cent.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• April 9, 2003

  Bank of Canada announces appointment of Paul Jenkins as Senior Deputy Governor

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Board of Directors of the Bank of Canada today announced that, pursuant to Section 6 of the Bank of Canada Act, Paul Jenkins has been appointed Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank for a seven-year term.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• April 8, 2003

  Change in timing of auction of Government of Canada treasury bills from 12:30 p.m. to 10:30 a.m. (Ottawa time) starting 17 June 2003

  In its Debt Management Strategy 2003/04, the government announced that the auction time for treasury bills would be moved to 10:30 a.m., on a trial basis, starting 22 April 2003.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• April 7, 2003

  Focusing on the Long Term

  Remarks David Dodge Canadian Council of Chief Executives Washington, D.C.

  It has not been an easy year. All of you have been running companies and making decisions under very uncertain conditions. You have had to deal with corporate and accounting issues. Markets have been volatile. And geopolitical events have shaken confidence.

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

• The Macroeconomic Effects of Military Buildups in a New Neoclassical Synthesis Framework

  Staff Working Paper 2003-12 Alain Paquet, Louis Phaneuf, Nooman Rebei

  The authors study the macroeconomic consequences of large military buildups using a New Neoclassical Synthesis (NNS) approach that combines nominal rigidities within imperfectly competitive goods and labour markets. They show that the predictions of the NNS framework generally are consistent with the sign, timing, and magnitude of how hours worked, after-tax real wages, and output actually respond to an upsurge in military purchases.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Economic models, Fiscal policy JEL Code(s): E, E3, E32, E6, E62, H, H2

• Collateral and Credit Supply

  Staff Working Paper 2003-11 Joseph Atta-Mensah

  The author examines the role of collateral in an environment where lenders and borrowers possess identical information and similar beliefs about its future value. Using option-pricing techniques, he shows that a secured loan contract is equivalent to a regular bond and an embedded option to the borrower to default.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Credit and credit aggregates, Economic models JEL Code(s): E, E5, E51, G, G1, G11, G12, G13

• A Stochastic Simulation Framework for the Government of Canada's Debt Strategy

  Staff Working Paper 2003-10 David Bolder

  Debt strategy is defined as the manner in which a government finances an excess of government expenditures over revenues and any maturing debt issued in previous periods. The author gives a thorough qualitative description of the complexities of debt strategy analysis and then demonstrates that it is, in fact, a problem in stochastic optimal control.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Debt management, Econometric and statistical methods, Economic models JEL Code(s): C, C0, C1, C15, C5, C52, H, H6, H63

• Bank Lending, Credit Shocks, and the Transmission of Canadian Monetary Policy

  Staff Working Paper 2003-9 Joseph Atta-Mensah, Ali Dib

  The authors use a dynamic general-equilibrium model to study the role financial frictions play as a transmission mechanism of Canadian monetary policy, and to evaluate the real effects of exogenous credit shocks. Financial frictions, which are modelled as spreads between deposit and loan interest rates, are assumed to depend on economic activity as well as on credit shocks.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Financial institutions, Monetary policy framework, Monetary policy transmission JEL Code(s): E, E3, E32, E4, E5, E51