European Financial Integration and Revenue from Seignorage: The Case of Italy

Financial integration is likely to entail EEC-wide convergence in both inflation rates and bank reserve requirements, thereby lowering some governments' seignorage revenues. These revenue losses, however, may be offset by concomitant effects on exchange rate expectations and on interest rates o...

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Körperschaft: International Monetary Fund (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C International Monetary Fund 1989
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers Working Paper No. 89/41
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Zusammenfassung:Financial integration is likely to entail EEC-wide convergence in both inflation rates and bank reserve requirements, thereby lowering some governments' seignorage revenues. These revenue losses, however, may be offset by concomitant effects on exchange rate expectations and on interest rates on publicly held government debt. In Italy, the high stock of such debt in relation to base money implies that, to offset the loss of seignorage, it will take only about a 1/2-percentage-point decline in real interest rates. A decline of this magnitude seems feasible, provided that there is credible action to place the public debt on a sustainable path
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (36 p)
ISBN:1451976291
9781451976298