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A central bank is insolvent if its plans imply a Ponzi scheme on reserves so the price level becomes infinity. If the central bank enjoys fiscal support, in the form of a dividend rule that pays out net income every period, including when it is negative, it can never become insolvent...
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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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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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costs of global CBDCs are associated with currency substitution, sudden currency depreciations, and lower seigniorage. At …
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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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Modern theory has delivered both the conservative central banker and the principal-agent approaches as rationales for …
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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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