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Seignorage in High Indebted Developing Countries

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  • McPherson, M.F.
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Seignorage is the capital gain generated by the creation of reserve money. The literature on seignorage shows that countries with highly developed and deep financial systems generate few resources relative to national income (or government revenue) from seignorage. By contrast, countries with shallow financial systems and profligate governments appear to gain access to large amounts of real resources when they create reserve money. Results obtained in this paper suggest there is no anomaly. Highly indebted developing countries resorting to money creation to finance their activities do not generate large amounts of seignorage, particularly on a sustained basis. In fact, when all of the consequences of rapid reserve money growth are considered --- including the increased local currency cost of servicing and amortizing external debt due to exchange rate depreciation --- these countries incur a net loss from reserve money creation.

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  • McPherson, M.F., 2000. "Seignorage in High Indebted Developing Countries," Equity and Growth through Economic Research 58, EAGER Publication/BHM.
    • Handle: RePEc:fth:eagerd:58
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    Keywords

    DEBT ; MANAGEMENT ; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ; INFLATION ; EXCHANGE RATE;
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    JEL classification:

    • E50 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - General
    • H60 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - General
    • H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
    • O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa

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