3. Get the monthly data from 1976 to 2009 on the M2
(gross)
monetary
(CANSIM
V41552796) and the three-month T-bill rate (series
V122531) from the Textbook Resources area of the
MyEconLab.
a. Calculate the annual money growth rate, using
the formula
m t
100
12 M
) /
b. Plot the monetary growth rate,
, and the nom-
inal interest rate, i t
.
c. What is the correlation coefficient between the
, and the nominal interest rate, i t
? Do you find anything interesting?
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PA R T I I
1. One of the largest single influences on the level
of interest rates is inflation. There are a number
of sites that report inflation over time. Go to