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costs of global CBDCs are associated with currency substitution, sudden currency depreciations, and lower seigniorage. At …
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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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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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. Monopoly over seigniorage is a source of political power and a valuable lifeline when sovereignty is threatened. Moreover a …
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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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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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The European Monetary Union (EMU) will involve socialization of the existing seigniorage wealth of the national central … will suffer per capita wealth losses of between 406 and 182 ecus. This paper quantifies the gains and losses in seigniorage …
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This note extends the theory of the revenue maximizing rate of monetary growth to the case of a temporary suspension of convertibility. It also suggests a methodology for the interpretation of monetary behavior during historical periods of inconvertibility. First we analyze the case of a...
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The importance of seignorage relative to other sources of government revenue differs markedly across countries. The main theoretical implication of this paper is that countries with more unstable and polarized political systems rely more heavily on seignorage. This result is obtained within the...
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