/maxbellschool/taxonomy/term/3570/all en /maxbellschool/article/articles-choosing-right-target-event-recap/video-down-wire-bank-canadas-mandate-renewal Watch a video recording of Down to the Wire for the Bank of Canada’s Mandate Renewal Thu, 02 Dec 2021 16:37:42 +0000 Max Bell School of Public Policy 2731 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/down-wire-bank-canadas-mandate-renewal-334732 <p>If recent history is any guide, the Government of Canada and the Bank of Canada will be announcing a new mandate for the Bank within the next several weeks. There are many available choices but only a few leading contenders.</p> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 19:51:10 +0000 katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca 2709 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/article/articles-choosing-right-target/going-beyond-inflation-targeting-mantra-dual-mandate <p>Every five years over the last three decades, the Government of Canada goes through a ritual of renewing the mandate of its central bank. To most Canadians, this renewal process must be somewhat puzzling: why would the government want to mandate an arm’s length public agency of the Canadian federal state to do already what, to some extent, its central bank is broadly mandated to do in the preamble to the 85-year old Bank of Canada Act?</p> Fri, 23 Apr 2021 20:05:36 +0000 Marc Lavoie and Mario Seccareccia 2464 at /maxbellschool