Whited, Toni Marion; Wu, Yufeng; Xiao, Kairong - 2023
We estimate a dynamic banking model to quantify the impact of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) on the banking … system. Our counterfactuals show that a one-dollar introduction of CBDC replaces bank deposits by around 80 cents on the … margin. Bank lending falls by one-fourth of the drop in deposits because banks partially replace lost deposits with wholesale …