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Fiscal Discipline and Exchange Rate Regimes: a Case for Currency Boards?

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  • Enrique Alberola

    (Banco de España)

  • Luis Molina

    (Banco de España)

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Empirical evidence shows that fixed exchange rates do not provide more fiscal discipline than flexible regimes, despite the fact that, in priciple, fixing the exchange rate imposes important restrictions on seignoriage revenues. A more detailed analysis of seignoriage allows to explain the channels whereby monetary financing is possible in the short and medium run even in a exchange rate peg. More precisely, it is argued that the traditional concept of monetary seignoriage is misguiding and that fiscal seignoriage, defined as the actual revenues accruing to government form the Central Bank, is a key variable to determine fiscal discipline. The paper shows that a peculiar version of fixed regimes, the currency boards, may effectively restrain fiscal policy by ruling out fiscal seignoriage. An indirect confirmation of these hypothesis is advanced by observing the empirical link between monetary seignoriage, and their relation with fiscal discipline.

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  • Enrique Alberola & Luis Molina, 2000. "Fiscal Discipline and Exchange Rate Regimes: a Case for Currency Boards?," Working Papers 0006, Banco de España.
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    Keywords

    exchange rate; income; financing; government;
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    JEL classification:

    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies

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