" shocks and core inflation indicators sent diverging signals about the transmission of those shocks to macroeconomic inflation … state of the economy. Regarding the second episode, an evaluation of core inflation indicators according to standard … pressures should not rely only on one or few core inflation indicators, since some signals could be picked by some measures and …

different measures of annual inflation in Colombia during this decade for monthly data. The STAR-type nonlinearities are … asymmetric for inflation computed as the variation of CPI while for (a measure of) core inflation are symmetric. Thus, LSTAR and … ESTAR models were, respectively, estimated. No evidence of nonlinearity is found for traded goods inflation. Given the local …

This paper contains the results of a non parametric multi-step ahead forecast for the monthly Colombian inflation …, using Mean conditional Kernel estimation over inflation changes, with no inclusion of exogenous variables. The results are …

changes were found to be larger than inflation. 4. As inflation is reduced in Colombia, the following happens: (i) price … changes are invariant to inflation. 5. A great deal of price setting heterogeneity was also found. 6. A slight downward … prices covaries with inflation and cumulative inflation since the last price update. 10. The decision to reduce prices is …