March 24, 2016 Annual Report 2015 The Annual Report provides an account of the Bank’s management, activities and achievements in 2015; it includes the financial statements and a message from Governor Stephen S. Poloz. Content Type(s): Publications, Annual Report
March 24, 2016 The Bank of Canada Releases Its Annual Report for 2015 Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada’s Annual Report for 2015 was tabled in the House of Commons today. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
Capital Structure, Pay Structure and Job Termination Staff working paper 2016-12 Jason Allen, James R. Thompson We develop a model to analyze the link between financial leverage, worker pay structure and the risk of job termination. Contrary to the conventional view, we show that even in the absence of any agency problem among workers, variable pay can be optimal despite workers being risk averse and firms risk neutral. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers JEL Code(s): G, G2, G24, J, J3, J33 Research Theme(s): Financial markets and funds management, Market functioning, Financial system, Financial institutions and intermediation, Household and business credit, Models and tools, Economic models
March 18, 2016 Weekly Financial Statistics - 18 March 2016 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
Dating Systemic Financial Stress Episodes in the EU Countries Staff working paper 2016-11 Benjamin Klaus, Tuomas Peltonen, Thibaut Duprey This paper introduces a new methodology to date systemic financial stress events in a transparent, objective and reproducible way. The financial cycle is captured by a monthly country-specific financial stress index. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers JEL Code(s): C, C5, C54, G, G0, G01, G1, G15 Research Theme(s): Financial system, Financial stability and systemic risk, Models and tools, Econometric, statistical and computational methods
March 17, 2016 Nominations – from 461 to one iconic Canadian woman A total of 461 iconic Canadian women met the initial qualifying criteria and an independent Advisory Council followed the selection process to produce a long list of 12 women and then a short list of five. On 8 December 2016, the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Bank of Canada revealed that Viola Desmond will be featured on the new $10 note.
March 15, 2016 Results of the 29-day and 84-day 15 March 2016 Term Repo Operation Results of today's term repo operation. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices