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result(s)
Announcing the Bankers’ Acceptance Purchase Facility: a COVID‑19 event study
Staff Analytical Note 2020-23
Rohan Arora,
Sermin Gungor,
Kaetlynd McRae,
Jonathan Witmer
The Bank of Canada launched the Bankers’ Acceptance Purchase Facility (BAPF) to ensure that the bankers’ acceptance (BA) market could continue to function well during the financial crisis induced by the COVID‑19 pandemic. We review the impact that the announcement of this facility had on BA yields in the secondary market. We find that BA yield spreads declined by 15 basis points on the day of the announcement and by up to 70 basis points over a longer period. Using an econometric framework, we quantify the effect of the announcement and confirm early assertions presented in the Bank’s 2020 Financial System Review.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff analytical notes
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Financial stability
JEL Code(s):
G,
G1,
G2,
G20,
G23
On Causal Networks of Financial Firms: Structural Identification via Non-parametric Heteroskedasticity
Staff Working Paper 2020-42
Ruben Hipp
Various business interactions of banks create a network of hidden relationships, which cannot be directly inferred from the correlation of bank stock returns. Without causality, it remains unclear how policy interventions change the network. Thus, this paper aims to find the causal network as anticipated by investors.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Econometric and statistical methods,
Financial markets,
Financial stability
JEL Code(s):
C,
C1,
C3,
C32,
C5,
C58,
L,
L1,
L14
Security and convenience of a central bank digital currency
Staff Analytical Note 2020-21
Charles M. Kahn,
Francisco Rivadeneyra
An anonymous token-based central bank digital currency (CBDC) would pose certain security risks to users. These risks arise from how balances are aggregated, from their transactional use and from the competition between suppliers of aggregation solutions.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff analytical notes
Topic(s):
Central bank research,
Digital currencies and fintech,
Financial system regulation and policies,
Payment clearing and settlement systems
JEL Code(s):
E,
E4,
E42,
G,
G2,
G21
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
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
Predicting Payment Migration in Canada
Staff Working Paper 2020-37
Anneke Kosse,
Zhentong Lu,
Gabriel Xerri
Developments are underway to replace Canada’s two core payment systems with three new systems. We use a discrete choice model to predict migration patterns of end-users and financial institutions for future systems and discuss their policy implications.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial institutions,
Financial services,
Financial stability,
Financial system regulation and policies,
Payment clearing and settlement systems
JEL Code(s):
C,
C3,
E,
E4,
E42,
G,
G1,
G2,
G28
Liquidity Usage and Payment Delay Estimates of the New Canadian High Value Payments System
Staff Discussion Paper 2020-9
Francisco Rivadeneyra,
Nellie Zhang
As part of modernizing its core payments infrastructure, Canada will replace the Large Value Transfer System (LVTS) with a new Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system called Lynx. An important question for policy-makers is how Lynx should be designed.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff discussion papers
Topic(s):
Financial services,
Financial system regulation and policies,
Payment clearing and settlement systems
JEL Code(s):
C,
C5,
E,
E4,
E42,
E5,
E58
The Interplay of Financial Education, Financial Literacy, Financial Inclusion and Financial Stability: Any Lessons for the Current Big Tech Era?
Staff Working Paper 2020-32
Nicole Jonker,
Anneke Kosse
The objective of this paper is twofold. First, we assess whether financial education might be a suitable tool to promote the financial inclusion opportunities that big techs provide. Second, we study how this potential financial inclusion could impact financial stability.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Development economics,
Digital currencies and fintech,
Financial markets,
Financial services,
Financial stability
JEL Code(s):
D,
D1,
D14,
D9,
D91,
D92,
G,
G2,
G21,
G23,
O,
O1,
O16
What COVID-19 revealed about the resilience of bond funds
Staff Analytical Note 2020-18
Guillaume Ouellet Leblanc,
Ryan Shotlander
The liquidity management strategies of fund managers, supported by policy measures, have helped bond funds limit the increase in redemptions caused by COVID 19. This avoided further deterioration in liquidity in bond markets. Nevertheless, these funds were left with lower cash buffers, which could make them more vulnerable to additional large redemptions.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff analytical notes
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Financial stability
JEL Code(s):
G,
G1,
G2,
G20,
G23
Will exchange-traded funds shape the future of bond dealing?
Staff Analytical Note 2020-16
Rohan Arora,
Jean-Sébastien Fontaine,
Corey Garriott,
Guillaume Ouellet Leblanc
Bond dealers have traditionally kept bonds in an inventory until clients buy them. But now, dealers have another way to access bonds for their clients: the exchange-traded fund. We discuss this new way to manage bond dealing and what it might mean for bond markets.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff analytical notes
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Financial stability,
Market structure and pricing
JEL Code(s):
G,
G1,
G2,
G20,
G23