There exist a variety of reasons for the failure to find a unique cointegrating relationship between economic time series where one would normally be expected on economic theory grounds. Among these are the testing procedure (e.g., Engle and Granger (1987) or Johansen (1991), the span of the...

This paper provides new evidence of the effect of weekly U.S. and Canadian M1 surprises on Canadian asset prices (stocks, T-bills, exchange rates) during the years John Crow was Governor of the Bank of Canada. In particular, we demonstrate the sensitivity of the evidence to the choice of...