Bellia, Mario; Calès, Ludovic - 2023
This paper analyzes the potential effect of a European Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) on banks' profitability. We … introduce a shock on the amount of deposits that would be replaced by the CBDC. Our results show that, for a large take-up of … CBDC, there might be substantial challenges for the profitability of banks, especially for small banks, that mostly rely on …