Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/30731 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2928
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Using Swiss data from 1983 to 2008, this paper investigates whether growth rates of the different measures of the quantity of money and or excess money can be used to forecast inflation. After a preliminary data analysis, money demand relations are specified, estimated and tested. Then, employing error correction models, measures of excess money are derived. Using recursive estimates, indicator properties of monetary aggregates for inflation are assessed for the period from 2000 onwards, with time horizons of one, two, and three years. In these calculations, M2 and M3 clearly outperform M1, and excess money is generally a better predictor than the quantity of money. Taking into account also the most (available) recent observations that represent the first three quarters of the economic crisis, the money demand function of M3 remains stable while the one for M2 is strongly influenced by these three observations. While in both cases forecasts for 2010 show inflation rates inside the target zone between zero and two percent, and the same holds for forecasts based on M3 for 2011, forecasts based on M2 provide evidence that the upper limit of this zone might be violated in 2011.
Subjects: 
stability of money demand
monetary aggregates and inflation
JEL: 
E41
E52
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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