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Unlike most hyperinflations, during Zimbabwe's recent hyperinflation, as in Revolutionary France, the currency ended … before the regime. The empirical results here suggest that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe operated on the correct side of the …
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Zimbabwe has recently experienced record hyperinflation of 80 billion percent a month. This paper uses new data from … Zimbabwe to investigate money demand under hyperinflation using an ARDL estimation for the period 1980-2008. The results … calculate the maximum level of seigniorage revenue that could be raised in the economy. Actual seigniorage levels increased …
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The present work estimates collected seigniorage levels in the Venezuelan economy from 1994Q1 to 2018Q2 and tries to … determine when and if a seigniorage-maximizing inflation rate occurred and this way provide a rational on the development of … hyperinflation in the country. Results suggest that the Venezuelan government acts as a seigniorage maximizer. The model predicts …
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' seigniorage revenue, holding foreign money can be welfare generating if domestic currency depreciates vis-à-vis the currencies in …
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substitution and dollarisation in Zimbabwe. The paper also discuss the possibility and the requirements for de-dollarisation to … take place. The process of dollarization in Zimbabwe was peculiar in that it was not backed by international reserves as is …
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This study investigates the evolution of central bank profits as fiscal revenue (or: seigniorage)before and in the … monetary policies are seeing their gradual“normalization.”Seigniorage exposes the connections between currency issuance and … normal times seigniorage largely derives from the note issue supplementedby “own” resources. Essentially, the central bank …
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This study investigates the evolution of central bank profits as fiscal revenue (or: seigniorage) before and in the … as monetary policies are seeing their gradual "normalization". Seigniorage exposes the connections between currency … seigniorage, and in normal times seigniorage largely derives from the note issue supplemented by "own" resources. Essentially, the …
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This paper studies money demand in Switzerland under free banking before the establishment of the Swiss National Bank. We find that, in addition to income, the banks' balance-sheet-to-GDP ratio and the number of banks were important determinants of long-run money demand. The former variable also...
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The previous literature on dollarization processes has two basic problems. First is the poor empirical methods of measurement, and second is the lack of a clear definition of the phenomenon under study. Several methodological problems have not been successfully addressed. Foreign currency...
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