Chiu, Jonathan; Davoodalhosseini, Seyed Mohammadreza; … - 2019
effects of introducing a central bank digital currency (CBDC). We identify a new channel through which the CBDC can improve … the efficiency of bank intermediation and increase lending and aggregate output even if its usage is low, i.e., the CBDC … model to the US economy and find that with a proper interest rate, CBDC can raise bank lending by around 7% and increase …