CBDC Policies in Open Economies

Michael Kumhof, Marco Pinchetti, Phurichai Rungcharoenkitkul and Andrej Sokol

No 2309, Discussion Papers from Centre for Macroeconomics (CFM)

Abstract: We study the consequences for business cycles and welfare of introducing an interest-bearing retail CBDC, competing with bank deposits as medium of exchange, into an estimated 2-country DSGE environment. CBDC issuance of 30% of GDP increases output and welfare by around 6% and 2%, respectively. Financial shocks account for around half of the variance of aggregate demand and inflation, and for the bulk of the variance of financial variables. An aggressive Taylor rule for the interest rate on reserves achieves welfare gains of 0.57% of steady state consumption, an optimized CBDC interest rate rule that responds to a credit gap achieves additional welfare gains of 0.44%, and further gains of 0.57% if accompanied by automatic fiscal stabilizers. A CBDC quantity rule, a response to an inflation gap, a cash-like CBDC, and CBDC as generalized access to reserves, yield significantly smaller gains. CBDC policies can substantially reduce the volatilities of domestic and cross-border banking flows and of the exchange rate. Optimal policy requires a steady state quantity of CBDC of over 40% of annual GDP.

Keywords: Central bank digital currencies; monetary policy; bank deposits; bank loans; monetary frictions; money demand; money supply; credit creation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 91 pages
Date: 2023-03
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Working Paper: CBDC policies in open economies (2023)
Working Paper: CBDC Policies in Open Economies (2023)
Working Paper: CBDC Policies in Open Economies (2023)
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