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The author evaluates the effect of the Bank of Canada's conditional commitment regarding the target overnight rate on … for Canada and the United States, the author finds that the Canadian 1-year treasury bill rates and 1-year forward 3-month … evidence appears to suggest that the Bank of Canada's conditional commitment likely has produced a persistent effect in …
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Providing bank notes is one of the Bank of Canada’s core functions. The Bank is therefore interested in whether cash is … distance between the 637 reserve band offices in Canada and their closest cash sources. In this study, these cash sources are …
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Since 1991, the Bank of Canada has had an inflation‐targeting (IT) framework established by a joint agreement between … the Bank and the Government of Canada. The framework is reviewed every five years as part of the process for renewing the … 2020 workshop, "Towards the 2021 Renewal of the Bank of Canada's Monetary Policy Framework." The Bank will publish updated …
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Chen et al. (2021) show that almost one-third of First Nations band offices in Canada are within 1 kilometre (km) of an … Nations are generally among the most geographically remote communities in Canada. Further, we show that these First Nations … are also among the lowest scoring communities in Canada according to a measure of community well-being based on indicators …
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Cash is being used less and less for making payments in many countries, including Canada and Sweden, which might … suggest that cash will eventually disappear. However, cash in circulation in most countries, including Canada, has been stable … paper explains these differences between Canada and Sweden by focusing separately on the transactions demand for cash and on …
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Estimating potential output and the output gap - the difference between actual output and its potential - is important for the proper conduct of monetary policy. However, the measurement and interpretation of potential output, and hence the output gap, is fraught with uncertainty, since it is...
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of monetary policy. We find that the Bank of Canada's current preferred measures of core inflation-CPI-trim, CPI …
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The authors present the methodology and main findings of the Bank of Canada’s 2009 Methods-of-Payment survey, a … detailed investigation of consumer payment behaviour in Canada. The survey targeted the 18- to 75-year-old Canadian resident …
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acquirer-merchant market in Canada. Three main findings are presented. First, smaller merchants pay their acquirer more for … acquiring market in Canada is concentrated and has remained fairly stable since 2010. …
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The market for cryptoassets has exploded in size in the 10 years since bitcoin was launched. The technology underlying cryptoassets, blockchain, has also been held up as a technology that promises to transform entire industries. In this paper we examine what is new about cryptoassets and their...
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