How to Cut the Seigniorage Cake into Fair Shares in an Enlarged EMU
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10069728 |
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| Authors | Jørgen Drud Hansen (Aarhus University), Roswitha M King (Østfold University of Applied Sciences) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 999-1010 |
| Publication date | 2007-11-12 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9886 • E-ISSN: 1468-5965 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2007.00757.x |
| OpenAlex | W2080814420 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The European Central Bank redistributes each year seigniorage from issuing euro notes to the National Central Banks of the euro countries. The key for this redistribution is, from 2008, based on the respective GDP and population proportions of the euro countries. Applying the distribution formula to the new EU countries from central and eastern Europe seems to give these countries a large net benefit compared with the seigniorage they bring in, i.e. their share of currency in circulation. However, as argued in this article, currency demand in the new EU member countries is expected to increase relative to the present group of euro countries – especially after gaining membership in the EMU because of integration of the financial markets and, in the longer term, catching‐up growth. Hence, it is doubtful whether a large unintended redistribution of seigniorage to the benefit of acceding EMU countries will materialize in the future
Currency · Economics · Financial system · International economics · Monetary economics · Population · Redistribution (election · Seigniorage · Corporate Taxation and Avoidance · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Taxation and Compliance Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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