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Revisiting the Coyne Affair: A Singular Event That Changed the Course of Canadian Monetary History

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  • Pierre Siklos

    () (Wilfrid Laurier University)

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The Coyne affair is the greatest institutional crisis faced by the Bank of Canada in its history. The crisis took place in 1959-1961 and led to the resignation of the Governor, once he was cleared of any wrongdoing. The crisis eventually resulted in a major reform of the Bank of Canada. The paper highlights the critical role played by the directive in central banking legislation. Archival and empirical evidence is used to assess the performance of monetary policy throughout the 1950s. In doing so, a real-time dataset is constructed for both Canada and the US that permits estimation of reaction functions. I find that the case against James Coyne is \'not proven\'.

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Paper provided by Wilfrid Laurier University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number eg0047.

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Length: 44
Date of creation: 2007
Date of revision: 2007
Handle: RePEc:wlu:wpaper:eg0047

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Keywords: Coyne Affair; monetary policy stance; Taylor rules; real-time data;

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  1. William B.P. Robson, 2009. "To the Next Level: From Gold Standard to Inflation Targets - to Price Stability?," C.D. Howe Institute Commentary, C.D. Howe Institute, issue 285, March.
  2. Richard C.K. Burdekin & King Banaian & Mark Hallerberg & Pierre L. Siklos, 2011. "Fiscal and monetary institutions and policies: onward and upward?," Journal of Financial Economic Policy, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 3(4), pages 340-354, November.

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