October 9, 2025 Productivity’s competitive edge Remarks Carolyn Rogers Canadian Club Toronto Toronto, Ontario Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers discusses how productivity growth can boost Canada’s prosperity and resilience. She also outlines how upcoming financial sector reforms are designed to increase competition. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks Subject(s): Financial system, Financial stability, Fintech, Monetary policy, Economic models, Economy/Economic growth
May 13, 2026 Productivity in the age of AI Speech summary Michelle Alexopoulos Ottawa Economics Association—Canadian Association for Business Economics Spring Policy Conference Ottawa, Ontario External Deputy Governor Michelle Alexopoulos discusses the evolution of artificial intelligence and its potential effects on jobs, productivity and economic growth—now, and in the future. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Speech summaries Subject(s): Monetary policy, Economy/Economic growth, Inflation
Digitalization: Productivity Staff discussion paper 2023-17 Jeffrey Mollins, Temel Taskin We examine the relationship between digitalization and productivity, the factors that influence this relationship, and how digitalization’s effect on productivity could change firm behaviour. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers JEL Code(s): E, E2, L, L1, L11, O, O4, O47, O5, O51 Research Theme(s): Structural challenges, Digitalization and productivity
November 28, 2005 Investing in Productivity Remarks David Dodge Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships Toronto, Ontario Measures of productivity tell us how much output we produce from the use of tangible inputs - such as skilled workers and capital equipment - and intangible inputs - such as technological advances and managerial and entrepreneurial know-how. Productivity rises over time as we boost output by finding new and more efficient ways to use these inputs. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
March 26, 2024 The productivity problem Speech summary Carolyn Rogers Halifax Partnership Halifax, Nova Scotia Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers talks about some of the reasons for Canada’s poor productivity track record, and what we can do to turn the tide. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Speech summaries Subject(s): Financial system, Financial stability, Monetary policy, Economy/Economic growth, Inflation, Inflation targeting framework
December 24, 2021 Understanding productivity High productivity helps raise our standard of living and keep our economy competitive. Content Type(s): Explainers Subject(s): Monetary policy, Economy/Economic growth, Inflation
Allocative Efficiency and the Productivity Slowdown Staff working paper 2021-1 Lin Shao, Rongsheng Tang In our analysis of the US productivity slowdown in the 1970s and 2000s, we find that a significant portion of this deceleration can be attributed to a lack of improvement in allocative efficiency across sectors. Our analysis further identifies increased sector-level volatility as a major contributor to this lack of improvement in allocative efficiency. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers JEL Code(s): E, E2, E23, O, O4, O47 Research Theme(s): Models and tools, Econometric, statistical and computational methods, Monetary policy, Real economy and forecasting, Structural challenges, Digitalization and productivity
October 17, 2002 The Search for Higher Productivity Remarks David Dodge Chambre de commerce de Québec Québec, Québec Given the extent of uncertainty in the world today, we are all naturally preoccupied with near-term issues and prospects. That's understandable. But, at the same time, it's critical that we look past the short-term to the longer-term trends and potential of our economy. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
October 9, 2025 Prosperity through productivity Speech summary Carolyn Rogers Canadian Club Toronto Toronto, Ontario Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers discusses how productivity growth can boost Canada’s prosperity and resilience, especially in a shock-prone world. Focusing on Canada’s banking sector, she explains how competition can improve productivity. But, she warns, it comes with trade-offs that must be managed carefully. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Speech summaries Subject(s): Financial system, Financial stability, Fintech, Monetary policy, Economy/Economic growth
November 28, 2005 Governor Dodge Discusses Investing in Productivity Media Relations Toronto, Ontario Improving Canada's productivity performance requires more efficient allocation of labour and capital resources, and continued innovation in both products and production processes, Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge said today at a conference organized by the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases