IDENTIFICATION-ROBUST ESTIMATES OF THE CANADIAN NATURAL RATE OF INTEREST

Maral Kichian ()
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Maral Kichian: University of Ottawa

L'Actualité Economique, 2015, vol. 91, issue 1-2, 161-176

Abstract: The natural rate of interest is an unobservable entity and its measurement présents some important empirical challenges. In this paper, we use identification-robust methods and central bank real-time staff projections to obtain estimates for the equilibrium real rate from contemporaneous and forward-looking Taylor-type interest rate rules. The methods notably account for the potential presence of endogeneity, under-identification, and errors-in-variables concerns. Our applications are conducted on Canadian data. The results reveal some important identification difficulties associated with some of our models, reinforcing the need to use identification-robust methods to estimate such policy functions. Despite these challenges, we are able to obtain fairly comparable point estimates for the real equilibrium interest rate across our different models, and in the case of the best fitting model, also remarkable estimate precision.

Date: 2015
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