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We analyze three related but distinct concepts concerning the renminbi's role in the global monetary system: (i … changes for the balance and sustainability of China's own economic development as well as the associated implications for the … global monetary system. While China is actively promoting the internationalization of its currency, it is a long way from …
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Bitcoin in particular and so-called cryptocurrencies in general have shaken up the financial world and seem to be claiming an increasing size of the market share. These new virtual assets present investors with significant opportunities, but also with significant risks. This paper analyzes the...
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quantitatively different from those in existing government and consumer payment systems. A well-functioning CBDC will require an … analysis, but flexible enough to accommodate current and future functional requirements and use cases. A CBDC will also in some …, we enumerate the fundamental technical design challenges facing CBDC designers, with a particular focus on performance …
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central bank money. The key differences between cash and central bank digital currency (CBDC) include transaction efficiency …, possibilities for tax evasion, and, potentially, nominal rates of return. We establish conditions under which cash and CBDC can co …-exist and show how government policies can in uence relative holdings of cash, CBDC, and other assets. We illustrate how a CBDC …
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trade between China and the U.S. in order to avoid the well-known aggregation bias. Estimates of symmetric error …-correction models (ECM) revealed that real dollar-renminbi rate misalignment has short-run effects on 35 U.S. exporting and 53 U … in assessing the effects of the RE misalignment on trade flows between the U.S. and China and confirms that the impacts …
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Empirically observed intertemporal choices about money have long been thought to exhibit present bias, i.e. higher short-term compared to long-term discount rates. Recently, this view has been called into question on both empirical and theoretical grounds, and a spate of recent findings suggest...
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We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and...
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Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile money as a tool to promote agricultural investment....
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Who uses mobile money? What is mobile money used for? This paper describes the mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas of Southern Mozambique. We use a combination of administrative and household survey data to...
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Rural areas in Sub-Saharan Africa are typically underserved by financial services. Mobile money brings a substantial reduction in the transaction costs of remittances. We follow the introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural villages of Mozambique using a randomized field...
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