Canadian Monetary Policy and Real and Nominal Exchange Rates
John Floyd (floyd@chass.utoronto.ca)
Working Papers from University of Toronto, Department of Economics
Abstract:
This paper analyzes the relationship between Canadian Monetary Policy and the movements of Canada's real and nominal exchange rates with respect to the U.S. A broad-based theory is developed to form the basis for subsequent empirical analysis. The main empirical result is that the Canadian real exchange rate has been determined in large part by capital movements into and out of Canada as compared to the U.S. and world energy prices. Additional important determinants were world commodity prices and Canadian and U.S. real GDPs and employment rates. No evidence of effects of unanticipated money supply shocks on the nominal and real exchange rates is found. Under conditions where exchange rate overshooting is likely to occur in response to monetary demand or supply shocks, this suggests that the Bank of Canada follows an orderly-markets style of monetary policy and the conclusion is that this is the best approach under normal conditions. Finally, it is shown that in response to a domestic inflation rate that has become permanently too high or a catastrophic situation in the U.S., the Bank of Canada can induce a one-percent short-run change in the unemployment rate by pushing the nominal and real exchange rates in the appropriate direction by between five and six percent.
Keywords: Real; Exchange; Rate; Canadian; Monetary; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A E F G (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2011-05-16
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