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Helicopter money is a hypothetical method for a central bank to create new money.
A term used to describe a financial instrument which displays characteristics of both debt and equity.


Instead of buying assets, the central bank would transfer money into the economy without any exchange of assets.
Such instruments might be designed to be an intermediate (or mezzanine) category of capital between equity and debt, or to have some of the risk absorbing characteristics of equity and, ideally, the tax efficiency of debt.




''"helicopter money is a very bad idea."''
== See also ==
 
* [[Convertible debt]]
The Treasurer, October 2016, p15.
* [[Mezzanine]]
 
* [[Warrant]]


== See also ==
[[Category:Long_term_funding]]
* [[Asset purchase facility]]
* [[Central bank]]
* [[Monetary policy]]
* [[Money supply]]
* [[Quantitative easing]]

Revision as of 09:18, 9 October 2013

A term used to describe a financial instrument which displays characteristics of both debt and equity.

Such instruments might be designed to be an intermediate (or mezzanine) category of capital between equity and debt, or to have some of the risk absorbing characteristics of equity and, ideally, the tax efficiency of debt.


See also