Seignorage Wealth and Redistribution in Central and Eastern European Countries

Posted: 18 Dec 2009

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Jacek Cukrowski

CASE - Center for Social and Economic Research

Manfred M. Fischer

Vienna University of Economics and Business - Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience, Department of Socioeconomics

Date Written: December, 15 2009

Abstract

The analysis presented in this article focuses on seigniorage revenues in five Central and Eastern European Countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania. A comprehensive discrete period accounting framework for measuring the sources and uses of seigniorage in the 1990s is presented. The framework is based upon the gross concept of seigniorage that defines seigniorage in the broadest possible sense as the sum of revenues resulting from the monopoly power to issue money. Legal, institutional and operational details which are relevant for the creation of base money in a country are taken into account. The article reveals similarities and differences in seigniorage wealth between the countries under scrutiny, evaluates the magnitude of seigniorage and shows that accession to the European Monetary Union will create significant once-and-for-all gains of seigniorage wealth for the countries resulting from redistributing seigniorage wealth.

Suggested Citation

Cukrowski, Jacek and Fischer, Manfred M., Seignorage Wealth and Redistribution in Central and Eastern European Countries (December, 15 2009). Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2003, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1523726

Jacek Cukrowski

CASE - Center for Social and Economic Research ( email )

Center for Social and Economic Research,
Warsaw
Poland

Manfred M. Fischer (Contact Author)

Vienna University of Economics and Business - Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience, Department of Socioeconomics ( email )

Welthandelsplatz 1, D4
Vienna, 1020
Austria

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