Developments and Trends
- Financial System Risk Assessment
- Overview
- Canadian financial situation
- Risks
- Mitigating risks to the financial system
- The Financial System
- Financial markets
- Highlighted Issue: Decomposing Canadian corporate investment-grade spreads: What are the drivers of the current widening?
- Highlighted issue: Broad recommendations for reform in light of the recent market turmoil
- Financial institutions
- Highlighted issue: The impact of the recent market turbulence on credit growth in Canada
- The Macrofinancial Environment
- The international environment
- Canadian developments
- Important Financial System Developments
- Highlighted Issue: An introduction to covered bond issuance
Reports
- Introduction
- Bank of Canada Oversight Activities during 2007 under the Payment Clearing and Settlement Act
by Walter Engert and Dinah Maclean - Bank of Canada Participation in the 2007 FSAP Macro-Testing Exercise
by Don Coletti, René Lalonde, Miroslav Misina, Dirk Muir, Pierre St-Amant, and David Tessier - The Role of Credit Ratings in Managing Credit Risk in Federal Treasury Activities
by Nancy Harvey and Mervin Merkowsky
Policy and Infrastructure Developments
- Introduction
- Financial Market Turmoil and Central Bank Intevention
by Walter Engert, Jack Selody, and Carolyn Wilkins
Research Summaries
- Introduction
- A Model of Tiered Settlement Networks
by James Chapman, Jonathan Chiu, and Miguel Molico - The Effects of a Disruption in CDSX Settlement on Activity in the LVTS: A Simulation Study
by Lana Embree and Kirby Millar - Family Values: Ownership Structure, Performance, and Capital Structure of Canadian Firms
by Michael R. King and Eric Santor
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