Spending Seigniorage : Do Central Banks Have a Governance Problem? /

This paper reviews how central banks allocate seigniorage, based on systematic crosscountry comparisons of their financial accounts. Central banks are classified as weak or strong, depending upon their structural profitability. Weak central banks typically (although not exclusively) operate in small...

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Autor Principal: Ize, Alain
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/058
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF
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