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Complementing Money Functions: Central Bank Digital Currencies and Currency Competition

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  • Jorg J. Dotsch

    (Andrassy Universitat Budapest)

  • Tamas Ginter

    (Andrassy Universitat Budapest)

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Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are currently one of the most vital issues in monetary policy worldwide. While several aspects of the emergence of digital currencies have been addressed in the respective literature, little focus has been directed to one important underlying parameter: the new role of technology in the digital age, which complements the traditional money functions and hence may exert an effect on currency competition. In this paper, we first provide an overview of money functions, currency competition and digital money. We then state that with the emergence of CBDCs, technology has become a new and important functional parameter born by the CBDC itself. We conclude that while technological competition has arisen as a factor of currency competition, stability remains its most decisive factor.

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  • Jorg J. Dotsch & Tamas Ginter, 2024. "Complementing Money Functions: Central Bank Digital Currencies and Currency Competition," Financial and Economic Review, Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Central Bank of Hungary), vol. 23(1), pages 50-75.
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    Keywords

    CBDC; digitalisation; currency competition;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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