Inflation expectations are a key determinant of actual and future inflation and thus matter for the conduct of monetary policy. We study how firms form their inflation expectations using quarterly firm-level data from the Bank of Canada's Business Outlook Survey, spanning the 2001 to 2015...

The monetary standard emerges out of the interaction of monetary policy with the structure of the economy. Characterization of the monetary standard thus requires specification of a model of the economy with a central bank reaction function. Such a specification raises all the fundamental issues...

ISETE 24 analyses monetary policies and central bank actions in the context of the recent global financial crisis. Part 1 discusses standard monetary policies and inflation targeting rules. Those approaches were appropriate to reaching two main objectives during the great moderation: controlling...