Welfare Costs of Inflation, Seigniorage, and Financial innovation /

This paper examines the welfare effects of mitigating the costs of inflation. In a simple model where money reduces transaction costs, a fall in the costs of inflation is equivalent to financial innovation. This can be caused by paying interest on deposits, indexing money, or 'dollarizing.'...

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Yazar: De Gregorio, Jose
Materyal Türü: Dergi
Dil:English
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1991.
Seri Bilgileri:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1991/001
Online Erişim:Full text available on IMF
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