RESUMENDesde la firma de la Constitución de 1991, el Banco de la República colombiano se constituye como persona jurídica de derecho público que debe velar por el mantenimiento de la capacidad adquisitiva de la monedai. Esto implica, que la política monetaria operará bajo el criterio de...

RÉSUMÉDepuis la signature de la Constitution de 1991, la Banque centrale colombienne a été constitue en personne juridique de droit public, qui doit assurer le maintien du pouvoir d´achat de l´argenti. Cela implique que la politique monétaire marchera sous le critère de ranges dans les...

Milton Friedman's contributions to and influence on macroeconomics are discussed, beginning with his work on the consumption function and the demand for money, not to mention monetary history, which helped to undermine the post World War 2 Keynesian consensus in the area. His inter-related...

This paper assesses the performance of monetary indicators in predicting euro area HICP inflation out-of-sample over the period since the start of EMU considering a wide range of forecasting models, including standard bivariate forecasting models, factor models, simple combination forecasts as...

A growing body of empirical evidence shows that there exists a long-run positive tradeoff between inflation and real macroeconomic activity. Within a New Keynesian framewok, we examine how increasing returns generate a positive long-run relation between inflation and output.

This paper extends the efficiency wages/partially adaptive expectations Phillips curve, otherwise known as the price-price Phillips curve, from a closed economy context to an open economy one with both commodity trade and capital mobility. We also consider the case of a monetary union (a...

The information content of broad money M3 for future GDP inflation in the euro area is investigated from a number of perspectives. Firstly, tests that money does not Granger-cause prices are conducted within a cointegrated VAR system comprising real M3 holdings, real GDP, inflation and short-...