chapter 22: learning objectives
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Chapter 22: Learning Objectives. The Original Purpose of Central Banks The Bank of Canada: Origins, History & Operations Bank of Canada Transactions with the Financial Sector & Government An Overview of the Bank of Canada’s Performance from its Inception to Today. Why Central Banks?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Chapter 22:Learning Objectives
The Original Purpose of Central Banks The Bank of Canada: Origins, History &
Operations Bank of Canada Transactions with the
Financial Sector & Government An Overview of the Bank of Canada’s
Performance from its Inception to Today
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Why Central Banks?
Emerged as lenders of last resort Are a fairly recent phenomenon in
many countries: see TABLE 22.1
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Origins of Central Banks
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Why Central Banks?
Function in part as regulators of the financial system
Function as fiscal agents of governments
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The Bank of Canada
Origins political influences rather than purely economic led
to the formation of the Canadian central bank Responsibilities
conducts open market operations responsible for the conduct of monetary policy and
maintenance of an inflation target fiscal agent of the federal government lender of last resort manages government’s foreign exchange reserves
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The BOC’s Balance Sheet
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Bank of Canada: Performance
The pre-war era smoothing seasonal interest rate fluctuations creating a market for government debt the use of moral suasion to influence bank behaviour
Post-war era the Coyne affair and the autonomy of the Bank: the
Rasminsky Directive the era of monetary targeting the era of stagflation and high inflation a mandate for price stability: inflation targeting
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Inflation Targeting
Failure of exchange rate and monetary targeting led to inflation control targets in 1991
No change was made to Bank of Canada Act but inflation targets are joint agreement between the federal government and the BOC
Current targets to end of 2006 is to keep CPI inflation in 1-3% range
Inflation targeting also requires improvements in accountability and monetary policy transparency
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The Rationale for Inflation Targeting
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Inflation in Canada
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Inflation Targeting: An International Phenomenon
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Tools of Monetary Policy
The Overnight rate and the operating band: Used by the Bank of Canada to set the stance of
monetary policy Basically defines a “zone” in which interest rates
are permitted to fluctuate The central bank “intervenes” at the top and
bottom ends of the operating band
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Overnight Operating Band
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The Behaviour of the Operating rate, 1994-2004
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Operating band (top)Operating band (bottom)TargetBank rate
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Tools of Monetary Policy
The Overnight rate and the operating band The SPRA and SRAs as a device to influence
liquidity in the overnight market:
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Illustrating the SPRA
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Tools of Monetary Policy
The Overnight rate and the operating band: The SPRA and SRAs as a device to influence
liquidity in the overnight market: Open market operations:
sale (purchases) reduces (increases) the money supply
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Tools of Monetary Policy (cont’d)
Some Key tools foreign exchange operations: a foreign exchange
SWAP TABLE 22.5 reserve requirements and their demise the Bank Rate & moral suasion
Base control Open Market Operations TABLE 22.6 debt monetization: buying the govt’s debt TABLE
22.7
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A Foreign Exchange SWAP
ASSETS LIABILITIES
INITIAL
AFTER REDEPOSIT
CHARTERED BANKS
FOREIGN CURR +100 GOVT OF CANADA +100
No change GOVT OF CANADA –100CHARTERED BANKS +100
RESERVES +100 GOVT OF CANADA +100
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An Open market operation
BANK OF CANADA
CHARTERED BANKS
Tbills +100 Dep. Chartered banks +100
Reserves +100Tbills -100
No change
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Monetizing the Debt
BANK OF CANADA
CHARTERED BANKS
Govt securities +100 Currency (BOC notes) +100
Reserves +100 Govt of Canada Dep. +100
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Summary
Central banking is mostly a 20th century phenomenon The Bank of Canada was created in the 1930s to help
manage monetary policy, act as a lender of last resort, and fiscal agent for the federal government
The bank of Canada can influence the economy through monetary policy using a number of tools: open market operations, base control, foreign exchange operations are examples
The history of BOC operations is full of important policy milestones