Monetary policy, interest rates and the Canadian dollar Staff analytical note 2025-2 Jean-Sébastien Fontaine, Ingomar Krohn, James Kyeong, Rishi Vala, Konrad Zmitrowicz Changes in domestic interest rates affect the value of the Canadian dollar less than changes in the risk premium do. These variations often occur when a broad shift in risk sentiment occurs in global markets. Ultimately, the value of the currency reflects long-term, slow-moving features of the economies. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff analytical notes JEL Code(s): E, E4, E43, F, F3, F31, G, G1, G12 Research Theme(s): Financial markets and funds management, International markets and currencies, Monetary policy, Monetary policy framework and transmission
February 4, 2025 CFIF Meeting (February 4, 2025) Content Type(s): Meetings Source(s): Canadian Fixed-Income Forum
February 3, 2025 Understanding quantitative easing QE is a tool that encourages spending and investment—helping us to achieve our inflation target by stabilizing the economy. Content Type(s): Explainers Subject(s): Monetary policy, Economic models, Economy/Economic growth, Inflation, Inflation targeting framework
February 3, 2025 University of Ottawa crowned National Champion of The Governor’s Challenge The Bank of Canada is pleased to announce the University of Ottawa has won the tenth annual Governor’s Challenge, a national student competition in which teams simulate the role of advisor to the Bank’s Governing Council. Content Type(s): Press, Announcements Source(s): The Governor's Challenge
January 31, 2025 Reviews and appeals This supervisory policy describes the Bank of Canada’s process to conduct reviews, as set out in the RPAA (a “prescribed review”), and outlines what individuals, entities and payment service providers should expect if they request a prescribed review of a retail payments supervision decision. Content Type(s): Retail payments supervision materials, Supervisory policies Subject(s): Retail payments supervision, Enforcement, Registration
January 31, 2025 Changes to Assets Eligible as Collateral under the Bank of Canada’s Standing Liquidity Facility As announced on June 11, 2024, the Bank of Canada made Secured General Collateral (SGC) Notes eligible as collateral under the Standing Liquidity Facility (SLF), pending necessary system enhancements. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices Source(s): Standing Liquidity Facility
January 31, 2025 Glossary of terms about retail payments supervision Read the definitions of terms about retail payments supervision used in Bank of Canada supervisory policies and guidelines.
High-Cost Consumer Credit: Desperation, Temptation and Default Staff working paper 2025-6 Joaquín Saldain I study the welfare consequences of regulations on high-cost consumer credit in the United States and find that borrowing limits have distributional impacts on households with self-control issues. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers JEL Code(s): E, E2, E7, E71, G, G5, G51 Research Theme(s): Financial system, Financial stability and systemic risk, Household and business credit
Anchored Inflation Expectations: What Recent Data Reveal Staff working paper 2025-5 Olena Kostyshyna, Isabelle Salle, Hung Truong We analyze micro-level data from the Canadian Survey of Consumer Expectations through the lens of a heterogeneous-expectations model to study how inflation expectations form over the business cycle. We provide new insights into how households form expectations, documenting that forecasting behaviours, attention and noise in beliefs vary across socio-demographic groups and correlate with views about monetary policy. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers JEL Code(s): D, D8, D84, E, E3, E31, E7, E70 Research Theme(s): Monetary policy, Inflation dynamics and pressures, Monetary policy framework and transmission, Real economy and forecasting