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November 9, 2010

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Canada and Global Financial Reform

Remarks Mark Carney International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies Geneva, Switzerland
There is an old saying, “Knowledge is gained from experience, and experience is gained from mistakes.” In Canada, we made our mistakes early and often in the 1970s and 1980s. Our fiscal situation deteriorated sharply, inflation surged to double-digit levels, and a few small regional banks collapsed.

Challenges in Implementing Worst-Case Analysis

Staff working paper 2018-47 Jon Danielsson, Lerby Ergun, Casper G. de Vries
Worst-case analysis is used among financial regulators in the wake of the recent financial crisis to gauge the tail risk. We provide insight into worst-case analysis and provide guidance on how to estimate it. We derive the bias for the non-parametric heavy-tailed order statistics and contrast it with the semi-parametric extreme value theory (EVT) approach.

Strengthening Inflation Targeting: Review and Renewal Processes in Canada and Other Advanced Jurisdictions

Staff discussion paper 2020-7 Robert Amano, Thomas J. Carter, Lawrence L. Schembri
We summarize the review and renewal process at four central banks (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Bank of England, Sveriges Riksbank and the US Federal Reserve Bank) and compare them with the process at the Bank of Canada, which has been well-established since 2001.

The Role of Public Money in the Digital Age

Staff discussion paper 2024-11 Francisco Rivadeneyra, Scott Hendry, Alejandro García
A well-functioning monetary system is characterized by public and private forms of money that exchange at par as value flows freely between them. A relevant retail public money—whether in the form of cash, a central bank digital currency or both—is a necessary component of such a monetary system.

A Framework in Search of an Optimal Margining Policy for Official Institutions: The Canadian Experience

Staff discussion paper 2016-9 Tomo Nakashima, Mihai Cosma, Boran Plong
One of the main outcomes of the global financial crisis has been a series of new regulations imposed on the financial system and specifically on banks.
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