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Over millennia, mankind has used hard cash in various forms ranging from shells to gold coins and paper. More recently, cash has become unpopular in political circles, as it effectively restricts states’ power to tax (explicitly or via negative interest rates) or to survey and potentially...
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complement—a digital euro—becomes increasingly necessary. Accordingly, the article concludes that the ECB is both entitled and … obliged de lege lata to issue a digital euro on the basis of Article 128 TFEU. It further explains that neither tangible cash … nor a digital euro can simultaneously be used as instruments in themselves to maintain price stability …
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Russian Abstract Предлагается обоснование применимости индикаторов доверия государства к гражданскому обществу, т. е веры государства в лояльность к нему общества и в...
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We discuss the idea of a purely algorithmic universal world iCurrency set forth in: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=2542541" https://ssrn.com/abstract=2542541 and expanded in: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3059330" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3059330 in light of recent developments, including Libra. Is...
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This report argues that including proof-of-stake cryptocurrency block rewards in gross income when the reward tokens are first created results in inequitable taxation and would discourage U.S. taxpayers from participating in this new technology. The better approach is to tax reward tokens when...
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We discuss the pros of adopting government-issued digital currencies as well as a supranational digital iCurrency. One such pro is to get rid of paper money (and coinage), a ubiquitous medium for spreading germs, as highlighted by the recent coronavirus outbreak. We set forth three policy...
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Seit der Einführung von Bitcoin 2008 und vieler anderer Kryptowährungen ist eine neue Welle innovativer Zahlungsprojekte im Gange, darunter Innovationen wie Libra - als supranationaler Stablecoin konzipiert - und digitale Zentralbankwährungen. Diese privaten und öffentlichen Projekte sind...
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Die Ankündigung der Libra Association, mit Libra eine private globale Währung zu emittieren, hat eine heftige Debatte über die damit verbundenen Chancen und Risiken ausgelöst. Befürworter erwarten, dass Libra das Geldsystem von seinen „staatlichen Fesseln“ befreien und den...
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We study how the introduction of a central bank-issued digital currency affects interest rates, the level of economic activity, and welfare in an environment where both central bank money and private bank deposits are used in exchange. Banks in our model are financially constrained, and the...
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