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This paper develops a new theory of seigniorage suited to modern economies where the majority of money is created not …. We identify four different forms of seigniorage that take account of the modern institutional separation between the …' and ‘money users'. The new typology differentiates between seigniorage profits arising from interest rate spreads on …
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This paper takes up the issue of the flexibility of inflation targeting regimes, with the specific goal of determining whether the monetary policy of the Bank of England, which has a formal inflation target, has been any less flexible than that of the Federal Reserve, which does not have such a...
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This paper assesses Revolutionary and Napoleonic wartime economic policy. Suspension of gold convertibility in 1797 allowed the Bank of England to nurture British monetary orthodoxy. The Order of the Privy Council suspended gold payments on Bank of England notes and afforded simultaneous...
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This paper argues that the inflation targeting regime prevailing in the United Kingdom is not the result of a change in policymaker objectives. By conducting an analysis of U.K. policymakers that parallels Romer and Romer's (2004) study of Federal Reserve Chairmen, I demonstrate that policymaker...
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It has recently been suggested by Robert Lucas that "shoe-leather" costs of inflation may amount to as much as 1% of GNP in the United States. This paper assesses the U.K. evidence for the period 1970-1994. Similar estimates to those of Lucas are found using his original specification, but a...
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There is now considerable disquiet about the appropriate monetary strategy that central banks should follow in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Several influential commentators have called for the abandonment of inflation targeting. Empirical research examining three major economies...
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