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functions of money. So-called stable coins are intended to bridge this gap, but whether they can be successfully scaled up and …
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We show that decentralized privately created money with unstable values can hinder the traded, more transaction … new federally-regulated, fully-backed currency as an alternative to the pre-existing money supply, which consisted of … this new type of stable, federally-backed money as a natural experiment, we show that places gaining access to the new …
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The puzzle of underissuance of national bank notes disappears when one disaggregates data, takes account of regulatory limits, and considers differences in opportunity costs. Banks with poor lending opportunities maximized their issuance. Other banks chose to limit issuance. Redemption costs do...
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We test the hypothesis that the Great Contraction would have been attenuated had the Fed not allowed the money stock to … Friedman's constant money growth rule. The results support the hypothesis that the Great Contraction would have been mitigated … and shortened had the Fed followed a constant money growth rule …
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The quality of the money stock declined during the banking crises of the early 1930s. Bank deposits did not serve as a … medium of exchange. This paper presents some evidence to show that the decline in the quality of the money stock contributed …
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banking. Germany achieved a high degree of domestic stability and provided safe haven for investors in times of turmoil in the …
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best. Monetary policy in Germany during the past one hundred years provides an excellent case to assess the empirical … authority in 1876, Germany has participated in four monetary regimes: the pre-war gold standard, the inter-war gold standard … in Germany was always geared toward maintaining price stability with the exception of the two world war periods. Germany …
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Central banks have evolved for close to four centuries. This paper argues that for two centuries central banks caught up to the strategies followed by the leading central banks of the era; the Bank of England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the Federal Reserve in the twentieth...
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In this paper we provide empirical measures of central bank credibility and augment these with historical narratives from eleven countries. To the extent we are able to apply reliable institutional information we can also indirectly assess their role in influencing the credibility of the...
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