Arbeitspapier

Revisiting the properties of money

The properties of money commonly referenced in the economics literature were originally identified by Jevons (1876) and Menger (1892) in the late 1800s and were intended to describe physical currencies, such as commodity money, metallic coins, and paper bills. In the digital era, many non-physical currencies have either entered circulation or are under development, including demand deposits, cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), in-game currencies, and quantum money. These forms of money have novel properties that have not been studied extensively within the economics literature, but may be important determinants of the monetary equilibrium that emerges in forthcoming era of heightened currency competition. This paper makes the first exhaustive attempt to identify and define the properties of all physical and digital forms of money. It reviews both the economics and computer science literatures and categorizes properties within an expanded version of the original functions-and-properties framework of money that includes societal and regulatory objectives.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series ; No. 406

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Money and Interest Rates: General
Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems
Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General
Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
Thema
Money
CBDC
Digital Currencies
Quantum Money
Currency Competition

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Hull, Isaiah
Sattath, Or
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Sveriges Riksbank
(wo)
Stockholm
(wann)
2021

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Hull, Isaiah
  • Sattath, Or
  • Sveriges Riksbank

Entstanden

  • 2021

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