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C.D. HOWE - OPPORTUNITIES AHEAD

31 May 2024

Led by Jeremy Kronick, Associate Vice President and Director of the Centre, the Centre of Financial and Monetary Policy aims to be the foremost hub of influence and direction on critical and emerging issues in both financial and monetary policy. [...] Our research publications delved into the pandemic’s impact on government finances and accountability; the key drivers behind inflation’s path in Canada; problematic interactions between inflation and taxes; the implications of the US Inflation Reduction Act; Canadian small- and medium-sized enterprise growth, hurdles and access to finance; the cost and barriers to building housing; supply chains;. [...] In addition, 2023 saw the creation of a new long-term venue for deeper research and engagement on financial services and on monetary policy with practitioners and thought leaders in business, government, and academia, in the form of a new Centre of Financial and Monetary Policy. [...] With signs of progress on inflation overall, the discussion turned towards the composition of the remaining inflation, both in terms of specific goods and services, and of the breakdown between demand-driven and supply-driven factors. [...] Given the speed of events, the Institute produced a number of shorter memos and op-eds to address the immediate concerns – why did this occur, what was the likelihood of spillover to Canada? Later in the year, the Institute published an in-depth paper on the differences between Canadian and U.

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