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Estimating The Exchange Rate of the Canadian Dollar 1. Introduction This paper examines the estimates of equation the exchange rate of the Canadian dollar, from the quarterly time series for the period 1970:1-2000:4 gathered from the International Monetary Fund database. Since Canada is a small open economy, it can present some idealized results. The empirical results provide support for a negative correlation between real output growth and the interest rate, a long with real exchange rates. Any changes in the real interest and real exchange rate depends on the American economy, therefore whatever is set by the United States make a great impact on the Canadian economy as well. Empirical results provided support for the purpose of this paper which is estimates the equation for the exchange rate of Canadian Dollar. It predicts that higher growth and higher inflation rate differentials both lead to a depreciating Canadian Dollar value. This paper is organized as follows: section 2 introduces the model, section 3 estimation, section 4 analyzes the hypothesis testing, and in section 5 presents the results of the estimation and summarizes the findings. 2. Model The estimation is carried out by means of a li