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The digital euro project will reach an important milestone this year when the preparation phase ends and the governing … how a digital euro is intended to work. An examination of the prospective design features and architecture of the digital … euro reveals the complexity of the project and the challenges associated with integrating the digital euro into the …
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We provide a rationale for bank money creation in our current monetary system by investigating its merits over a system with banks as intermediaries of loanable funds. The latter system could result when CBDCs are introduced. In the loanable funds system, households limit banks' leverage ratios...
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This paper distils three lessons for bank regulation from the experience of the 2009-12 euro-area financial crisis … fiscal distress, and inquires how the regulation of banks' sovereign exposures in the euro area should be changed to mitigate … new regulatory framework of the euro-area "banking union" can be expected to mitigate excessive forbearance and facilitate …
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This paper distils three lessons for bank regulation from the experience of the 2009-12 euro-area financial crisis … fiscal distress, and inquires how the regulation of banks' sovereign exposures in the euro area should be changed to mitigate … new regulatory framework of the euro-area "banking union" can be expected to mitigate excessive forbearance and facilitate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961638
Libra - a global virtual currency project initiated by Facebook - has been the subject of many controversial discussions since its announcement in June 2019. This paper provides a differentiated view on Libra, recognising that different development scenarios of Libra are conceivable. Libra could...
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The purpose of the paper is to survey and discuss inflation targeting in the context of monetary policy rules. The paper provides a general conceptual discussion of monetary policy rules, attempts to clarify the essential characteristics of inflation targeting, compares inflation targeting to...
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The paper considers optimal monetary stabilization policy in a forward-looking model, when the central bank recognizes that private-sector expectations need not be precisely modelconsistent, and wishes to choose a policy that will be as good as possible in the case of any beliefs that are close...
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We study the problem of a policymaker who seeks to set policy optimally in an economy where the true economic structure is unobserved, and policymakers optimally learn from their observations of the economy. This is a classic problem of learning and control, variants of which have been studied...
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The paper considers optimal monetary stabilization policy in a forward-looking model, when the central bank recognizes that private-sector expectations need not be precisely model-consistent, and wishes to choose a policy that will be as good as possible in the case of any beliefs that are close...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022441
We study the problem of a policymaker who seeks to set policy optimally in an economy where the true economic structure is unobserved, and policymakers optimally learn from their observations of the economy. This is a classic problem of learning and control, variants of which have been studied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005600452