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November 19, 2015
Recent Enhancements to the Management of Canada’s Foreign Exchange Reserves
As the size and complexity of the foreign exchange reserves have grown over the years, enhancements to the management framework needed to keep pace. This is a common theme for most reserve managers around the world. In Canada, the enhancements focused on governance, portfolio management, risk measurement and risk management. This article briefly describes these enhancements, why they were implemented and some of the lessons learned along the way.
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Bank of Canada Review articles
Topic(s):
Central bank research,
Foreign reserves management,
Recent economic and financial developments
JEL Code(s):
E,
E5,
E58,
F,
F3,
F31,
G,
G1
May 14, 2015
The “Bank” at the Bank of Canada
In this article, we describe the various types of banking services (payments, settlement and safekeeping) that the Bank of Canada provides to different types of clients (the Government of Canada, financial market infrastructures, financial institutions, foreign central banks and the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation). We also explain the reasons the Bank provides these services and how this role supports its core mandates, in particular financial stability. Finally, we explore the factors driving the growth and evolution in the provision of these banking services.
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Bank of Canada Review articles
Topic(s):
Financial services,
Foreign reserves management,
Payment clearing and settlement systems
JEL Code(s):
E,
E5,
E50,
G,
G2,
G20
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
Topic(s):
Debt management,
Financial stability
JEL Code(s):
G,
G2,
G21,
J,
J1,
J15
May 13, 2014
The Canadian Dollar as a Reserve Currency
This article provides an overview of the growth of Canadian-dollar-denominated assets in official foreign reserves. Based on International Monetary Fund data and on internal Bank of Canada analysis, we estimate that the total reserve holdings of Canadian-dollar assets increased from negligible levels before 2008 to around US$200 billion in the third quarter of 2013. We discuss the determinants of this increase, as well as its potential impact on Canadian debt markets, for example, lower yields and therefore reduced financing costs for the Government of Canada, and the possible negative impact on market liquidity.
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Bank of Canada Review articles
Topic(s):
Central bank research,
Foreign reserves management,
Recent economic and financial developments
JEL Code(s):
E,
E5,
E58,
F,
F3,
F31,
G,
G1,
G12
Database of Sovereign Defaults, 2017
Technical Report No. 101
David Beers,
Jamshid Mavalwalla
Until recently, there have been few efforts to systematically measure and aggregate the nominal value of the different types of sovereign government debt in default. To help fill this gap, the Bank of Canada’s Credit Rating Assessment Group (CRAG) has developed a comprehensive database of sovereign defaults posted on the Bank of Canada’s website.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Technical reports
Topic(s):
Debt management,
Development economics,
Financial stability,
International financial markets
JEL Code(s):
F,
F3,
F34,
G,
G1,
G10,
G14,
G15
Why Do Emerging Markets Liberalize Capital Outflow Controls? Fiscal versus Net Capital Flow Concerns
Staff Working Paper 2013-21
Joshua Aizenman,
Gurnain Pasricha
In this paper, we provide empirical evidence on the factors that motivated emerging economies to change their capital outflow controls in recent decades. Liberalization of capital outflow controls can allow emerging-market economies (EMEs) to reduce net capital inflow (NKI) pressures, but may cost their governments the fiscal revenues that external financial repression generates.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Debt management,
Financial system regulation and policies,
International topics,
Recent economic and financial developments
JEL Code(s):
F,
F3,
F32,
G,
G1,
G15
May 16, 2013
Modelling the Asset-Allocation and Liability Strategy for Canada’s Foreign Exchange Reserves
Bank of Canada Review - Spring 2013
Francisco Rivadeneyra,
Jianjian Jin,
Narayan Bulusu,
Lukasz Pomorski
The Bank of Canada recently developed an asset-liability-matching model to aid in the management of Canada’s foreign exchange reserves. The model allows policy-makers at the Bank and the Department of Finance to analyze asset-allocation and funding-mix decisions by quantifying both the risk-return and liquidity trade-offs for the assets, as well as the risk-cost trade-offs of the funding liabilities.
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Bank of Canada Review articles
Topic(s):
Debt management,
Foreign reserves management
JEL Code(s):
F,
F3,
F31,
G,
G1,
G11,
G18
Systematic Risk, Debt Maturity and the Term Structure of Credit Spreads
We build a dynamic capital structure model to study the link between systematic risk exposure and debt maturity, as well as their joint impact on the term structure of credit spreads. Our model allows for time variation and lumpiness in the maturity structure. Relative to short-term debt, long-term debt is less prone to rollover risks, but its illiquidity raises the costs of financing.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Asset pricing,
Debt management
JEL Code(s):
G,
G3,
G32,
G33
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
Topic(s):
Debt management,
Foreign reserves management
JEL Code(s):
G,
G1,
G12,
G3,
G32