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seigniorage. The mechanism that is used is the direct loan, from the Treasury (the Government’s cash desk) from the central bank …, which means creating a an additional monetary base. Basically, seigniorage is not different from the financing of the budget … structured as follows: conceptual aspects concerning the seigniorage in section 1, section 2 showing the models for calculate the …
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This paper studies the inflationary implications of interest bearing regional debt in a monetary union. Is this debt simply backed by future taxation with non inflationary consequences ? Or will the circulation of region debt induce monetization by a central bank ? We argue here that both...
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This paper studies the effects of monetary policy rules in a fiscal federation, such as the European Union. The focus of the analysis is the interaction between the fiscal policy of member countries (regions) and the monetary authority. Each of the countries structures its fiscal policy...
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the princes who earned seigniorage revenues from those mints. To be sure, the general public often suffered the … consequences of this seigniorage tax from the consequent inflation. But another goal of this study is to demonstrate that inflation …
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Central banks’ economic and political importance has grown in advanced economies since the start of the Great Financial Crisis in 2007. An unwillingness or inability of governments to use countercyclical fiscal policy has made monetary policy the only stabilization tool in town. However, much...
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Central banks’ economic and political importance has grown in advanced economies since the start of the Great Financial Crisis in 2007. An unwillingness or inability of governments to use countercyclical fiscal policy has made monetary policy the only stabilization tool in town. However, much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084413
We determine the second best rule for the inflation tax in monetary general equilibrium models where money is dominated in rate of return. The results in the literature are ambiguous and inconsistent across different monetary environments. We derive and compare the optimal inflation tax...
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We determine the optimal combination of taxes on money, consumption and income in transactions technology models where exogenous government expenditures must be financed with distortionary taxes. We show that the optimal policy does not tax money, regardless of whether the government can use as...
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transactions costs, it is optimal to set the inflation tax to zero when seigniorage is replaced by revenue from distortionary taxes …
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In March 2013 around 130 participants from academia, banking and finance, governments and central banking gathered at the premises of the OeNB in Vienna for a conference jointly organized by the European Money and Finance Forum SUERF, the OeNB and the Austrian Society for Bank Research to...
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