Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Helicopter money" in English language version.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of February 2025 (link)Helicopter money is giving to the people part of the net present value of your future seigniorage, the profit you make on the future banknotes.
Central banks may soon resort to their most powerful weapons against deflation: the printing press and the 'helicopter drop' of money.
We need a legal and administrative framework to allow central banks print money and transfer it to households. This would be efficient, effective and would eliminate the deflation risk for good.
Central banks have ways to drop money into ailing economies.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of February 2025 (link)Helicopter money is giving to the people part of the net present value of your future seigniorage, the profit you make on the future banknotes.
Central banks have no mandate to give money away (they can only exchange one asset for another, as they do in quantitative easing)
Helicopter money is a form of fiscal policy. The question arises of whether it is the central bank, the Treasury or both in coordination that should implement it. This has the potential to threaten the principle of central bank independence or at least it may force us to reconsider the rules that govern the relation between Treasury and central banks today
Helicopter money is giving to the people part of the net present value of your future seigniorage, the profit you make on the future banknotes.
Central banks have no mandate to give money away (they can only exchange one asset for another, as they do in quantitative easing)
Helicopter money is a form of fiscal policy. The question arises of whether it is the central bank, the Treasury or both in coordination that should implement it. This has the potential to threaten the principle of central bank independence or at least it may force us to reconsider the rules that govern the relation between Treasury and central banks today
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of February 2025 (link)