That’s when the Bank of Canada can step in using our main inflation-control tool: the target for the overnight interest rate. When we change this short-term interest rate, changes in other rates, like ...
Securing Canada's long-term competitiveness in a quickly decarbonizing global economy is the focus of New Economy Canada, a newly launched non-partisan initiative uniting business, Indigenous and ...
The events of recent weeks may have finally shattered Canada’s economic complacency. U.S. President Donald Trump’s imminent disruptive trade agenda has sent shock waves through our political ...
Do large banks in Canada have enough capital to withstand a severe economic downturn? The COVID‑19 pandemic caused a large disruption to the Canadian economy. However, this health crisis has not ...
Canada needs to start fixing its “stinker” of an economy regardless of whether Donald Trump imposes tariffs next month so it can prevent similar threats in the future, economists say. There’s no ...
It examines whether the floating rate was the best option for Canada in the 1950s by developing and estimating a New Keynesian small open economy model of the Canadian economy. The model is then used ...