The Evolution of Seigniorage during the Crisis

Clipici Emilia ()
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Clipici Emilia: University of Pitesti, Faculty of Economics Science

Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series, 2012, vol. XII, issue 2, 1044-1049

Abstract: In developing countries, governments are tempted to, and they often do finance their budget deficits by issuing currency. This leads to inflation, and ultimately, the source of the incomes to the budget are the inflation tax and the 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 deficit, by the central bank , by buying government bonds, and the effect of this practice is the emergence if the phenomenon of taxing inflation, by deteriorating the value of the financial assets owned by banks and non-banks. This paper is structured as follows: conceptual aspects concerning the seigniorage in section 1, section 2 showing the models for calculate the level of seigniorage, section 3 estimates the evolution of Seigniorage during the crisis.

Keywords: seigniorage; inflation tax; crisis. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 E58 E62 G01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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