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Overnight Rate Innovations as a measure of monetary Policy Shocks in Vector Autoregressions

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  • Jamie Armour
  • Walter Engert
  • Ben Fung

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The authors examine the Bank of Canada's overnight rate as a measure of monetary policy in vector autoregression (VAR) models.

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  • Jamie Armour & Walter Engert & Ben Fung, 1996. "Overnight Rate Innovations as a measure of monetary Policy Shocks in Vector Autoregressions," Staff Working Papers 96-4, Bank of Canada.
    • Handle: RePEc:bca:bocawp:96-4
    DOI: 10.34989/swp-1996-4
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    • C10 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - General
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes

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