This paper revisits Canada's pioneering experience with floating exchange rate over the period 19501962. It examines … whether the floating rate was the best option for Canada in the 1950s by developing and estimating a New Keynesian small open … that monetary policy was more volatile in the post-1957 period and Canada's macroeconomic performance suffered as a result …

In Canada, targeting the inflation rate was intended as a temporary measure on a journey to price-level stability, but …

Canada played an important role in the postwar establishment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), yet it was also … of a floating, market-determined exchange rate. Although the IMF heavily criticized this decision, Canada’s trail … floating exchange rates, which had predicted significant volatility. In May of 1962, Canada returned to the BrettonWoods system …

affine term structure model to find that, contrary to previous estimates of this rule, the monetary authorities in Canada …