Interest rates
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March 3, 2022
Economic progress report: Controlling inflation
Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem talks about the Bank’s latest interest rate announcement and what’s driving inflation in Canada. He also discusses how the Bank will manage the next step in the Bank’s balance sheet operations – quantitative tightening. -
March 3, 2022
Getting inflation back to target
Governor Tiff Macklem talks about the Bank of Canada’s decision yesterday to raise its policy interest rate. He explains that after two years of extraordinary stimulus, we are now on a path of rising interest rates. -
February 2, 2022
A Canadian interest rate benchmark regime for the future
Deputy Governor Toni Gravelle discusses some important changes that may be coming to Canada’s interest rate benchmarks. -
December 9, 2021
Keeping our eyes on inflation
Deputy Governor Toni Gravelle talks about the Bank of Canada’s decision yesterday to leave the policy rate unchanged. He explains the link between supply bottlenecks and high inflation and why the Bank thinks both will ease over time. -
December 9, 2021
Economic progress report: A recovery unlike any other
Deputy Governor Toni Gravelle provides an economic update and discusses the relationship between supply bottlenecks and inflation. -
Democratic Political Economy of Financial Regulation
We offer a theory of how inefficiently lax financial regulation could arise in a democratic society. -
Discount Rates, Debt Maturity, and the Fiscal Theory
Do bond risk premiums influence the effects of debt maturity operations? Using a model with realistic bond risk premiums, we show that maturity operations have sizable effects on expected inflation and output when the central bank passively responds to inflation and the fiscal authority weakly responds to the debt level. -
November 23, 2021
Checking up on Canada’s financial system
Deputy Governor Paul Beaudry speaks about the strength and resilience of the financial system throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and economic recovery. He also outlines key vulnerabilities and risks going forward. -
November 23, 2021
Financial stability through the pandemic and beyond
Deputy Governor Paul Beaudry provides an update on financial vulnerabilities and risks in Canada, including those stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.