April 25, 2022 Parliamentary Appearance by the Governor and the Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada On Monday, April 25, 2022, the Governor of the Bank of Canada, Tiff Macklem, will appear before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance. He will be accompanied by Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers. Content Type(s): Press, Media advisories
April 25, 2022 CARR Meeting (April 25, 2022) Content Type(s): Meetings Source(s): Canadian Alternative Reference Rate Working Group
April 22, 2022 Bank of Canada announces increases to the limit for Securities Repo and Overnight Reverse Repo operations Effective April 25, 2022, the maximum total bidding amount across all securities in the Securities Repo Operation (SRO) will increase to $5,000 million for each counterparty. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices Source(s): Overnight repo and overnight reverse repo operations, Securities Repo Operations
April 21, 2022 CORRA Advisory Group Meeting (April 21, 2022) Content Type(s): Meetings Source(s): CORRA Advisory Group
April 21, 2022 Media roundtable with Governor Macklem On Thursday, April 21, 2022, Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada, will hold a virtual roundtable with journalists from the sidelines of the G7-G20-IMF meetings in Washington. Reporting based on the contents of the roundtable will be embargoed until 19:00 (Eastern Time). Content Type(s): Press, Media advisories
Bitcoin Awareness, Ownership and Use: 2016–20 Staff Discussion Paper 2022-10 Daniela Balutel, Marie-Hélène Felt, Gradon Nicholls, Marcel Voia In this paper, we examine trends in Canadian ownership of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from 2016 to 2020 using data from surveys conducted by the Bank of Canada. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Bank notes, Digital currencies and fintech, Econometric and statistical methods JEL Code(s): C, C1, C12, E, E4, O, O5, O51
Uncertainty and Monetary Policy Experimentation: Empirical Challenges and Insights from Academic Literature Staff Discussion Paper 2022-9 Matteo Cacciatore, Dmitry Matveev, Rodrigo Sekkel Central banks face considerable uncertainty when conducting monetary policy. The COVID-19 pandemic brought this issue back to the forefront of policy discussions. We draw from academic literature to review key sources of uncertainty and how they affect the conduct of monetary policy. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Central bank research, Monetary policy and uncertainty, Potential output JEL Code(s): E, E3, E5