May 23, 2023 Bank of Canada Museum announces 2023 recipients of Award for Excellence in Teaching Economics Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada Museum is honouring two outstanding educators for their exceptional work in teaching students about the economy. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
April 20, 2001 Governor talks about the Bank of Canada's contribution to monetary and financial stability and about the current economic situation Media Relations Vancouver, British Columbia n a speech today to The Vancouver Board of Trade, Governor David Dodge said that the Bank of Canada contributes to the economic well-being of Canadians by preserving confidence in the value of money and by promoting the safety and soundness of Canada's financial system. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
November 7, 2001 Bank of Canada releases semi-annual Monetary Policy Report Media Relations The Bank of Canada today released its semi-annual Monetary Policy Report in which it discusses economic and financial trends in the context of Canada's inflation-control strategy. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
January 29, 2025 Bank of Canada provides operational details for restarting asset purchases to end quantitative tightening Today, the Bank of Canada is announcing its plan to complete its balance sheet normalization, ending quantitative tightening. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices Source(s): Term repo operations
March 12, 2009 Financial System Policy Responses to the Crisis Remarks David Longworth Financial Markets Association of Canada Toronto, Ontario With your professional interests in foreign exchange, money markets, capital markets, and derivatives, I'm sure the past year and a half has been exciting and interesting – if those are the right words. We've been living through a period of astonishing financial turbulence, historic marketplace losses, and serious threats to financial stability. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
May 11, 2017 Unconventional Monetary Policy: The Perspective of a Small Open Economy Bank of Canada Review - Spring 2017 Jean-Sébastien Fontaine, Lena Suchanek, Jing Yang How do unconventional monetary policies like quantitative easing and negative interest rates affect domestic financial conditions and the broader economy in small open econo-mies, such as Canada? These policies are effective in depreciating the exchange rate in small open economies, while lower interest rates are also passed through to the economy, albeit only partially. When conventional monetary policy is close to its limits, fiscal policy may be a more important complement to monetary policy in a small economy, particularly if global demand for safe assets compresses long-term interest rates. Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review articles JEL Code(s): E, E5, E52, E58, E6, E61, E65
Personal Experiences and House Price Expectations: Evidence from the Canadian Survey of Consumer Expectations Staff analytical note 2018-8 Mikael Khan, Matthieu Verstraete In this work, we use novel Canadian survey data to study how expectations of future changes in house prices are influenced by personal experiences. We find that recently experienced changes in local house prices are routinely extrapolated into expectations of year-ahead changes in national house prices. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff analytical notes Research Theme(s): Financial system, Household and business credit, Monetary policy, Real economy and forecasting
February 4, 2010 Signs of Thaw in Corporate Attitudes Emerging, Says Governor Carney Media Relations Winnipeg, Manitoba With improvements in financial conditions, economic activity, commodity prices, and confidence, the Bank of Canada anticipates that there will be a relatively modest recovery this year in business fixed investment in Canada, and an acceleration of investment spending in 2011. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
November 1, 1999 Money, Monetary Policy, and Transmission Mechanisms Proceedings of a conference held by the Bank of Canada, November 1999 (proceedings volume, available in electronic format only) Content Type(s): Conferences and workshops
May 15, 2020 Release of the 2019 Bank of Canada FMI Oversight Activities Annual Report The Bank of Canada today published the Bank of Canada Oversight Activities for Financial Market Infrastructures 2019 Annual Report (the Report) on its oversight of payment clearing and settlement systems, which are also known as financial market infrastructures (FMIs). Content Type(s): Press, Market notices