seigniorage

In doing so, the government will often impose a fee which is known as seigniorage.

This difference, which the Crown earned as a profit, was called seigniorage.

A revenue, called seigniorage, is made on this minting process.

According to some reports, over half of Zimbabwe governmental revenue in 2008 was seigniorage.

The price spread between face value and commodity value is called seigniorage.

Theories of hyperinflation generally look for a relationship between seigniorage and the inflation tax.

As there is also demand from coin collectors, Seigniorage.

These profits, called "seigniorage," go into the government's general fund and are budgeted by Congress just like tax revenue.

The opposite, "cost of carry", is not regarded as a form of seigniorage.

Government spending can be financed by seigniorage, taxes, or government borrowing.

This income, derived from the power to issue currency, is referred to as seigniorage, and usually belongs to the national government.

And without the seigniorage from the underground economy, the United States would see a dramatic decline in revenue.

When the cost of each coin is lowered in this way, the government profits from an increase in seigniorage.

These models focus on the unrestrained seigniorage of the monetary authority, and the gains from the inflation tax.

Monetary policy was seen as an executive decision, and was generally in the hands of the authority with seigniorage, or the power to coin.

Historically, seigniorage was the profit resulting from producing coins.

(At the end of the program, the Mint estimated the actual increase in seigniorage to be $3 billion.)

The privilege of minting official coins developed into the concept of seigniorage.

It converted precious metals into standard coin for anyone's account with no seigniorage charge beyond the refining costs.

The difference is these values is seigniorage.

Some economists regarded seigniorage as a form of inflation tax, redistributing real resources to the currency issuer.

This produced a heavy seigniorage induced inflation, where the exchange rate, for the promissory notes against Silver, was 1 to 4 in 1834.

Panning gold is encouraged; our gracious masters charge one hell of a stiff seigniorage."

Although the U.S. government receives income overall from seigniorage, there are costs associated with maintaining the money supply.

Competition for seigniorage drove the value of the money down to about $0.04 per ShSo (1000) note, approximately the commodity cost.