In this paper, based on the experience of ten European countries, we study the relevance of seigniorage revenues in the recent past, and we speculate about their importance in the near future. We find that the members of the European community differ widely in the way they manage monetary...

In this paper, based on the experience of ten European countries, we study the relevance of seigniorage revenues in the recent past, and we speculate about their importance in the near future. We find that the members of the European community differ widely in the way they manage monetary...

This paper studies the institutional and political determinants of capital controls in a sample of 20 OECD countries for the period 1950<196>89. One of the most interesting results is that capital controls are more likely to be imposed by strong governments, which have a relatively `free' hand over...</196>