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Article: Identifying a policy makers target: an application to the Bank of Canada
Title | Identifying a policy makers target: an application to the Bank of Canada |
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Keywords | Monetary policy Central Banking Inflation targeting |
Issue Date | 2002 |
Publisher | Blackwell Publishing, Inc. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/CJE |
Citation | Canadian Journal of Economics, 2002, v. 35 n. 2, p. 239-256 How to Cite? |
Abstract | We develop a new way to test hypotheses about policymakers' targets and implement that test for Canadian monetary policy. For example, if the Bank of Canada is targeting a 2 per cent inflation rate, and if the Bank's instrument takes eight quarters to affect inflation, then deviations of inflation from 2 per cent should be uncorrelated with the Bank's information set lagged eight quarters. We show that there was a major change in the Bank's objectives near the time when formal inflation targets were announced and that the Bank has indeed been targeting inflation since then |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/48709 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.3 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.787 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Rowe, N | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Yetman, JA | en_HK |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-05-22T04:22:04Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2008-05-22T04:22:04Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2002 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citation | Canadian Journal of Economics, 2002, v. 35 n. 2, p. 239-256 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issn | 0008-4085 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/48709 | - |
dc.description.abstract | We develop a new way to test hypotheses about policymakers' targets and implement that test for Canadian monetary policy. For example, if the Bank of Canada is targeting a 2 per cent inflation rate, and if the Bank's instrument takes eight quarters to affect inflation, then deviations of inflation from 2 per cent should be uncorrelated with the Bank's information set lagged eight quarters. We show that there was a major change in the Bank's objectives near the time when formal inflation targets were announced and that the Bank has indeed been targeting inflation since then | en_HK |
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dc.language | eng | en_HK |
dc.language | fre | en_HK |
dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing, Inc. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/CJE | en_HK |
dc.rights | The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com | en_HK |
dc.subject | Monetary policy | en_HK |
dc.subject | Central Banking | en_HK |
dc.subject | Inflation targeting | en_HK |
dc.title | Identifying a policy makers target: an application to the Bank of Canada | en_HK |
dc.type | Article | en_HK |
dc.identifier.openurl | http://library.hku.hk:4550/resserv?sid=HKU:IR&issn=0008-4085&volume=35&issue=2&spage=239&epage=256&date=2002&atitle=Identifying+a+policy+makers+target:+an+application+to+the+Bank+of+Canada | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | Yetman, JA: jyetman@econ.hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.description.nature | postprint | en_HK |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 69476 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0008-4085 | - |