INFLATIONARY EFFECTS OF BUDGET DEFICIT FINANCING IN CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIES

This paper tries to analyse the relations existing between the different ways of financing budget deficit and inflation, underlining the terms of these relations and the involved social and economic effects. An important source of inflation is considered to be the financing of budget deficits by direct appeal to the central bank’s resources, nowadays forbidden by law in most countries for its negative impact. Nevertheless, inflation can also appear as a consequence of debt financing of the budget deficit, considered acceptable in the contemporary society, when it indirectly involves the increase in the amount of money available to the economy above what’s absolutely necessary.