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Inflación tranquila, pero hasta ahí. En los últimos días los precios se tranquilizaron respecto de las primeras semanas del mes. Aun así, la canasta de alimentos nos está dando un poco más alta que a algunos de los colegas que miden. Igual el número de julio no va a ser malo porque los precios regulados no van a aportar, con lo cual también hay chances de que la inflación núcleo termine siendo más alta que el aumento del IPC. Probablemente esté entre 4 y 5% en línea con los últimos meses, pero no llegue al 3.7% que mostró el Banco Central en el powerpoint que compartió con inversores.
The government is focused on turning off the money-issuance faucets. As for that one corresponding to the government financing, there is not any opposition, quite the opposite. The IMF and the entire community of economists and businessmen celebrate that the government has a surplus and that the faucet is not only closed but practically prohibited.
Se resuelven dos de tres. Las “Lefis” (instrumentos del tesoro que reemplazan a los pases pasivos) debutan el próximo lunes y hoy debería quedar resuelto el tema de los puts (opciones de venta) que tienen los bancos sobre bonos soberanos contra el Banco Central. Para nosotros estos problemas eran menos graves que para el gobierno, pero está bien que se dejen a un lado. La tercera condición para levantar el cepo es que la inflación llegue a 2% mensual. Esperamos que las autoridades no sean religiosas con esta condición porque francamente “no la vemos”. Seguimos pensando que levantar el cepo tiene más beneficios que costos.
1st assumption. The exchange rate couldn’t depreciate because the Central Bank had dried up pesos from the market (with the Bopreals and by not lending to the Treasury). The truth is that if they had really dried up the market, the price of pesos (the interest rate) would have gone through the roof. But the opposite happened, the interest rate dropped a lot. Where the miscalculation lies: there are instruments in pesos such as fixed-term deposits, Treasury bonds, Central Bank debt or simply taking out loans, which could convert to dollars if confidence was lost. It is not only the monetary base that matters, what matters are the financial assets with which one can make a change of portfolio and run against the peso when expectations change.
La inflación de julio no empezó tan bien. Es claro que junio va a darle sonrisas al gobierno. Con los ponderadores de la Nación y usando precios de la Ciudad la inflación podría ser de apenas 4.5% en junio. Pero en la primera semana de julio la inflación del consumo masivo subió a 1.6%. A esto se suma un mes estacionalmente más difícil y el tema climático (el extremo frío en buena parte del país) seguramente dejará una marca en los precios de julio. Seguimos pensando que la inflación del año va a estar entre 155 y 160%, pero eso tiene implícito una salida del cepo que genera un salto manejable de la inflación en el primer mes y algo en el segundo. Si no hubiera salida del cepo en 2024, la inflación puede estar más en torno de 140%.
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Más rápido de lo que muchos economistas esperaban, el Gobierno va consolidando su objetivo de cerrar el año con déficit fiscal cero, mejora de las cuentas del Banco Central, y camino a la tasa de inflación de un dígito porcentual….
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Graduate in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires and Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University. Professor and researcher at the Di Tella University and academic advisor at FIEL
With vast experience as an advisor to multilateral organizations such as the IMF, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, as well as several Latin American countries, he held prominent roles in the financial sector, including the presidency of Banco Hipotecario S.A. and functions in the Ministry of Economy and the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic.
He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, and taught at institutions such as CEMA, Georgetown University, and Columbia University.
He is a columnist and author of numerous articles in international publications. Author of the book “The Argentine economic crisis, a history of adjustments and imbalances” with Sebastián Kiguel.
Graduate in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires and Master in Finance from the Torcuato Di Tella University. He has been an adjunct professor at UBA since 2002 and a visiting professor at UTDT since 2006.
He was chief economist for Argentina at BTG Pactual and economist for South America at the British Embassy based in Buenos Aires.
He was an economic journalist at Clarín and El Economista and was a member of the boards of directors of various companies.
Author of the book “Puede fallar: Economía y comunicación en 40 años de democracia” with Gabriel Llorens Rocha.
Author of the podcast “La economía en 3 minutos.”
Alejandro Giacoia
Economist
Bachelor of Economics (UBA).
Pursuing a Master’s Degree in Finance (Di Tella)
Pamela Morales
Economist
Bachelor of Economics (UCEMA)
Associate Professor of Macroeconomics UCEMA
Rafael Aguilar
Economist
Bachelor of Economics (UBA).
He was an assistant in the UBA National Accounts chair
Leila García
Analyst
Bachelor student in economics (UBA)
Assistant in the UBA Argentine Economic History