Economics professor and RBC fellow Thorsten Koeppl is available to comment on the Bank of Canada monetary policy report that is due to be released today at 10.30am.

Professor Koeppl sits on the Monetary Policy Committee with the C.D. Howe Institute. Before joining Queen’s University, he was a research economist with the European Central Bank. He will be reading the report this morning and will be available to talk to reporters.

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