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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Päätekijä: De Gregorio, Jose
Aineistotyyppi: Aikakauslehti
Kieli:English
Julkaistu: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1991.
Sarja:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1991/001
Linkit:Full text available on IMF