E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

• Fractional Cointegration and the Demand for M1

  Staff Working Paper 2000-13 Greg Tkacz

  Using wavelets, the author estimates the fractional order of integration of a common long-run money-demand relationship whose parameters are obtained from a full-information maximum-likelihood procedure.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Monetary aggregates JEL Code(s): C, C1, C13, E, E4, E41

• Identifying Policy-makers' Objectives: An Application to the Bank of Canada

  Staff Working Paper 2000-11 Nicholas Rowe, James Yetman

  In this paper, we develop a new way to test hypotheses about policy-makers' targets, and we implement that test for Canadian monetary policy.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Inflation targets JEL Code(s): E, E5, E52, E6, E61