Central bank digital currency

Aleksi Grym, Päivi Heikkinen, Karlo Kauko and Kari Takala

No 5/2017, BoF Economics Review from Bank of Finland

Abstract: Central banks have traditionally issued cash to the general public. With digitalisation, banknotes are becoming a technically outdated payment instrument, and some central banks have explored the possibility of central bank-issued electronic money applicable to retail payments. Electronic central bank money would offer the public the possibility to hold central bank money in a potentially cashless future. In its present form, blockchain technology would probably not be a suitable solution, since it is unable to process a sufficiently large number of transactions. Electronic central bank money would potentially have significant implications for other areas of central bank policy, which should be meticulously analysed.

Keywords: money; central banks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E42 E58 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
Note: This article was originally published in Finnish under the title ”Digitaalinen keskuspankkiraha”, BoF Economics Review 4/2017: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:bof-201711031665
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