In Canada, targeting the inflation rate was intended as a temporary measure on a journey to price-level stability, but … account, changing beliefs about the stability or otherwise of ongoing inflation, the capacity of a flexible exchange rate to … inflation targeting arrived on the scene only after the Canadian regime was well established. …

,rather than exchange rate regimes and questions of policy credibility and political accountability are crucial. Canada's recent … economic performance under inflation targets, and arguments that the flexible exchange rate has undermined real economic … performance are assessed. The most economically attractive among alternative monetary orders, the adoption by Canada of the US …

We use narrative evidence along with a novel database of real-time data and forecasts from the Bank of Canada's staff … monetary policy in Canada. We show that it is crucial to take into account the break in the conduct of monetary policy caused … by the announcement of inflation targeting in 1991 when estimating the effects of monetary policy. For instance, we find …

In Canada, targeting the inflation rate was intended as a temporary measure during a transition to price … following account, changing beliefs about the stability or otherwise of ongoing inflation, the capacity of a flexible exchange … modelling inflation targeting arrived on the scene only as the Canadian regime was becoming well established. …

This paper evaluates the usefulness of various measures of core inflation for the conduct of monetary policy …. Traditional exclusion-based measures of core inflation are found to perform relatively poorly across a range of evaluation … move with macroeconomic drivers. All measures of core inflation, however, have limitations - consequently, there is merit …

of monetary policy. We find that the Bank of Canada's current preferred measures of core inflation-CPI-trim, CPI …We provide an updated evaluation of the value of various measures of core inflation that could be used in the conduct … biased, less volatile and much more persistent relative to alternative core measures and CPI inflation. They are also still …

We present a novel database of real-time data and forecasts from the Bank of Canada's staff economic projections. We … then provide a forecast evaluation for GDP growth and CPI inflation since 1982: we compare the staff forecasts with those …