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determination of the revenue received from seigniorage. If the country goes further and uses a foreign money, it loses all … seigniorage. This paper uses an optimal inflation tax approach to analyze the consequences for optimal rates of income taxation … and welfare of the alternative exchange rate and monetary arrangements. From the viewpoint of seigniorage, a system in …
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This paper shows that the optimal extraction of seigniorage implies a strong tendency for inflation to fall over time … inflation rate each period in a discretionary manner. One way to view the model is as a synthesis of the "tax-smoothing" theory …
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A given amount of seigniorage revenue can be collected at either a high or a low rate of inflation. Thus there ray be …
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Central banks affect the resources available to fiscal authorities through the impact of their policies on the public debt, as well as through their income, their mix of assets, their liabilities, and their own solvency. This paper inspects the ability of the central bank to alleviate the fiscal...
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In spite of the mystique behind a central bank's balance sheet, its resource constraint bounds the dividends it can distribute by the present value of seignorage, which is a modest share of GDP. Moreover, the statutes of the Federal Reserve or the ECB make it difficult for it to redistribute...
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costs of global CBDCs are associated with currency substitution, sudden currency depreciations, and lower seigniorage. At …
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This paper describes interactions between monetary and fiscal policies that affect equilibrium price levels and interest rates by critically surveying theories about (a) optimal anticipated inflation, (b) optimal unanticipated inflation, and (c) conditions that secure a "nominal anchor'' in the...
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seigniorage by issuing fiat money in echange for real resources. One insightful result is that , with contemporaneous perceptionof … solution for maximal seigniorage is the reputatoinal equilibrium. More generally , the analysis shows that the objective of … maximal seigniorage produces an equilibrium inflation rate equal either to a generalization of the Friedman elasticity …
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command over real resources through its ability to issue fiat money. They are (1) seigniorage (the change in the monetary base …
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model to stress that dollarization implies the loss of independent monetary policy and of seigniorage, yet the significance … seigniorage loss or using Mundellian optimal currency area criteria. However, outcomes are rather different if credibility is … absent and dollarization can serve as a commitment device: the welfare impact of dollarization is ambiguous, and seigniorage …
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