The paper shows that the "monetary policy rules and inflation targeting" literature and the "endogenous money" literature share a reaction function approach to central banking policy. Monetary aggregates are the outcome of the price-maker and quantity-taker behavior of central banks in the...

The purpose of this article is to test the proposition that capital stock relative to aggregate output was an important variable in the determination of the Canadian nonaccelerating inflation unemployment rate (NAIRU) in the period 1976Q1-2003Q4. We present new empirical evidence obtained from...