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Cash is being used less and less for making payments in many countries, including Canada and Sweden, which might … paper explains these differences between Canada and Sweden by focusing separately on the transactions demand for cash and on … product in both Canada and Sweden. This reflects similar experiences in decreasing cash use for transactions over time due to …
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Cash is being used less and less for making payments in many countries, including Canada and Sweden, which might … paper explains these differences between Canada and Sweden by focusing separately on the transactions demand for cash and on … product in both Canada and Sweden. This reflects similar experiences in decreasing cash use for transactions over time due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388827
cash - the only form of central bank money that the public currently has access to - is declining rapidly in many countries … currency (CBDC). We conclude that depositors' need for control could be a reason why cash or a CBDC is essential, even in …
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Providing bank notes is one of the Bank of Canada's core functions. The Bank is therefore interested in whether cash is … distance between the 637 reserve band offices in Canada and their closest cash sources. In this study, these cash sources are …. We provide a perspective on these issues by exploring access of First Nations reserves to cash. To do so, we measure the …
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Chen et al. (2021) show that almost one-third of First Nations band offices in Canada are within 1 kilometre (km) of an … populations and limited access to internet and mobile services. As a result, these First Nations have poor access to cash sources … Nations are generally among the most geographically remote communities in Canada. Further, we show that these First Nations …
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The use of bank notes in Canada for payments has declined consistently for some time, and similar trends are evident in … implications of the abandonment of the use of cash in the future. More specifically, we look at a variety of ways in which the …
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similar to cash. The implications of such a digital currency are explored, focusing on central bank seigniorage, monetary …
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Digital currencies store balances in anonymous electronic addresses. We analyze the tradeoffs between the safety and convenience of aggregating balances in addresses, electronic wallets and banks. In our model, agents balance the risk of theft of a large account with the cost to safeguarding a...
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This paper imagines a world in which countries are on the Bitcoin standard, a monetary system in which all media of exchange are Bitcoin or are backed by it. The paper explores the similarities and differences between the Bitcoin standard and the gold standard and describes the media of exchange...
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