Expand your understanding of spending and saving, discover your place in the economy and explore a world-class currency collection.

The Bank of Canada (The Bank) commenced operations in March 1935 under the terms of the Bank of Canada Act of 1934. Data for the month-end series (Bank of Canada assets and liabilities: Month-end ...

Expand your understanding of spending and saving, discover your place in the economy and explore a world-class currency collection.

Foreign demand for Government of Canada (GoC) bonds has increased rapidly since the financial crisis. This sudden interest by foreigners in the GoC market is associated with external events, such as ...

Recent policy changes are having a clear impact on the mortgage market. The number of new highly indebted borrowers has fallen, and overall mortgage activity has slowed significantly. Tighter policies ...

Canada’s commercial banking system consists of privately owned banks that have been chartered by Parliament or have received letters patent by order-in-council as provided for in the 1991 Bank Act.

House price expectations play an important role in observed housing market dynamics. This note adds to a growing literature aimed at better understanding how expectations of future changes in house ...

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The Bank of Canada (the “Bank”), as issuer of Canadian bank notes, offers a service for the redemption, in appropriate cases, of claims for Canadian bank notes that have become contaminated or ...

Fixed-income exchange-traded funds (FI-ETFs) typically create and redeem the bulk of their shares in kind. In-kind transactions consist of exchanging ETF shares for baskets of bonds instead of cash.

The Governor’s Challenge is an annual university outreach program organized and sponsored by the Bank of Canada and designed to bring real-world economics into the undergraduate classroom. The ...

Readability refers to how easy it is to read and understand a piece of text. In this note, I examine the readability of Bank of Canada publications for the years 2015–17, using a common metric for ...