This paper can be seen as a contribution to a growing literature initiated by Bernanke and Blinder (1988, 1992) which have examined the role played by the banking system in the transmission of monetary policy. We propose to study the dynamic behaviour of the balance sheet of Canadian chartered...

Starting in 1988, the Bank of Canada has adopted price stability as its sole long-run objective. In this paper, we critically assess the policy actions effectively undertaken in light of this objective. Instead of using the so-called monetary conditions (interest rates and the exchange rate), we...

Since the abandonment of monetary targeting by the Central Banks of major industrial nations, McCallum's rule has attracted renewed attention in the macroeconomic literature. Both McCallum and his critics have investigated the stabilizing properties of the rule and its robustness across regimes...

In this paper, the neutrality hypothesis is tested for the U.S. Great Depression. Neutrality is generally rejected by the data even when banking failures are excluded from the available information set in generating the anticipated rate of growth of money series. Hence our results are contrary...

Even though the Canadian Great Depression was one of the worst in the Western World, there are no recent articles where the phenomenon is analyzed as a whole. In this paper, the Interwar business cycles are analyzed in the context of a macroeconomic model with monthly data. The model features...

The work of Robert Hall (1978) on the stochastic implications of the rational expectations-permanent income (RE-PI) theory has initiated numerous empirical analysis. The purpose of this paper is to reexamine this question using the methodology recently proposed by Abel and Mishkin (1983) on a...

This exploratory study attempts to measure and explain the evolution of productivity of seven Canadian air carriers over the 1970-80 period. Based on recent work on time series analysis, and in contrast to the conventional approach, this paper links measured productivity to the potential and...