Go to the CANSIM data available in the Student Resources section of your MyEconLab website and download

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Go to the CANSIM data available in the Student Resources section of your MyEconLab website and download daily data since January 1996 for the bank rate (V39078) and the target overnight rate (V39079).

a. What is the difference between the two series?

b. Plot the two series.

c. Calculate the upper and lower bounds of the operating band and plot the time path of the operating band.

d. What does the time path of the operating band say about the easiness of monetary policy over this period?

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The Economics of Money Banking and Financial Markets

ISBN: 978-0321785701

5th Canadian edition

Authors: Frederic S. Mishkin, Apostolos Serletis

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