Budget Deficit, Money Growth and Inflation: Evidence from the Colombian Case

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
537
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
H62, E51, E31, C12
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

Evidence of the causal long-term relationship between budget deficit, money growth and inflation in Colombia is analyzed in this paper, considering the standard (M1), the narrowest (M0-Base) and the broadest (M3) definitions of money supply. Using a vecto