The Governor's Challenge: Student resources

Find information on our key publications and other resources for understanding Canada's monetary policy framework. Learn about possible economic data sources you can use and view last year's winning presentation.

Key publications

The Bank of Canada has a number of publications that can help students understand Canada’s monetary policy framework, the current economic outlook, and illustrate how the statistics and concepts could be delivered in their presentations.

Other resources

Economic data

Students should choose the economic indicators they think are most relevant to the current economic situation and organize them to tell their story. Teams should be prepared to defend their choice of unusual data.

Following are some standard data series that could be used.

Gross domestic product (GDP)

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a key measure of the health of a country’s economy.

• Read more about the GDP and how it's calculated from Statistics Canada.
• View and download GDP data from Statistics Canada.

Core measures of inflation

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) provides a broad measure of the cost of living in Canada.

• Read more about the CPI from Statistics Canada.
• View and download CPI data from Statistics Canada.

Interest rates

The Bank publishes various interest rate data and provides tools to look up historical data.

• View and download Canadian interest rate data.
• View and download Treasury Bill yield data.
• View and download Canadian Bond yield data.
• View and download historical interest rate data from Statistics Canada.

Exchange rates

The Bank publishes various exchange rate data and provides tools to look up historical data.

• View and download noon exchange rate data.
• View and download monthly average exchange rate data.
• View and download historical exchange rate data from Statistics Canada.

Employment

Statistics Canada publishes monthly reports on employment statistics in the Labour Force Survey (LFS)

• Read more about the LFS from Statistics Canada.
• View and download LFS data from Statistics Canada.

International data

• Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• World Bank Open Data
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Presentations

• Read the guidelines for presentations.
• View this year's winning presentation.