Budgetary Policy and Seignorage

At once with the development of money as medium of exchange, the feudal lords found out an easy way to obtain more monetary resources by monopolizing the coins’ mint. As result, they used to ask a certain percent from the gold quantity that people wanted to transform in coins (call brassage). Despit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Liviu-Catalin Moraru, Corina-Ionela Dumitrescu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: General Association of Economists from Romania 2006-11-01
Series:Theoretical and Applied Economics
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Online Access:http://www.ectap.ro/articole/160.pdf