A Long-run Version of the Bank of Canada Commodity Price Index, 1870 to 2015

Ryan Macdonald

Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series from Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies Branch

Abstract: Canada is a trading nation that produces significant quantities of resource outputs. Consequently, the behaviour of resource prices that are important for Canada is germane to understanding the progress of real income growth and the prosperity of the country and the provinces. Demand and supply shocks or changes in monetary policy in international markets may exert significant influence on resource prices, and their fluctuations constitute an important avenue for the transmission of external shocks into the domestic economy. This paper develops historical estimates of the Bank of Canada commodity price index (BCPI) and links them to modern estimates. Using a collection of historical data sources, it estimates weights and prices sufficiently consistently to merit the construction of long-run estimates that may be linked to the modern Fisher BCPI.

Keywords: Prices; Price indexes; Natural resources; Commodities; Business cycles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-10-11
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