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La inflación bajo una perspectiva monetaria: Un vistazo al período de la postguerra / Inflation under a monetary framework: a view to the postwar period

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El artículo estudia la inflación en Colombia durante la posguerra y su relación con el crecimiento del dinero en el largo plazo. El artículo aborda el tema de los desplazamientos de la velocidad de circulación del dinero por medio de una estimación de la demanda de dinero en donde la monetización de la economía sigue un proceso estocástico, específicamente una tendencia lineal local. En el artículo se evalúa la predictibilidad de la velocidad de circulación del dinero por medio de una medición de su error de pronóstico. Los resultados muestran que la velocidad no fue predecible debido a la magnitud del error de pronóstico. La principal implicación de política es que la implementación de la estrategia monetaria de control de la inflación y la balanza comercial fue difícil debido a que la velocidad fue inestable y poco predecible. De todas formas, el dinero sirvió de ancla para la inflación en el largo plazo, aunque ajustado, expost, por los desplazamientos de la velocidad.****** The article studies inflation in Colombia during the postwar period, in relation to long-term money growth. The article deals with the shifts in the velocity of money by estimating a demand for money function where monetization follows a stochastic process, specifically, a local linear trend. The article evaluates the predictability of velocity by means of measuring its forecast error. The results show that monetization explains the shifts in velocity and that velocity was not predictable due to the size of the forecast error. The main policy implication is that the implementation of a monetary strategy for the control of inflation is difficult because velocity is unstable and not predictable. Nonetheless, money growth was the anchor of inflation in the long term, although adjusted, expost, by the drift in velocity.

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  • Javier G. Gómez-Pineda, 2015. "La inflación bajo una perspectiva monetaria: Un vistazo al período de la postguerra / Inflation under a monetary framework: a view to the postwar period," Borradores de Economia 14169, Banco de la Republica.
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    Keywords

    Enfoque monetario; demanda de dinero; velocidad; programas de ajuste; inflación / Monetary approach; money demand; velocity; adjustment programs; inflation;
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    JEL classification:

    • N1 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations
    • N16 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Latin America; Caribbean
    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit
    • E4 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates

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