Arbeitspapier
Monetary Policy with Reserves and CBDC: Optimality, Equivalence, and Politics
We analyze policy in a two-tiered monetary system. Noncompetitive banks issue deposits while the central bank issues reserves and a retail CBDC. Monies differ with respect to operating costs and liquidity. We map the framework into a baseline business cycle model with “pseudo wedges” and derive optimal policy rules: Spreads satisfy modified Friedman rules and deposits must be taxed or subsidized. We generalize the Brunnermeier and Niepelt (2019) result on the macro irrelevance of CBDC but show that a deposit based payment system requires higher taxes. The model implies annual implicit subsidies to U.S. banks of up to 0:8 percent of GDP during the period 1999-2017.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 8712
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems
Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
Monetary Policy
- Subject
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reserves
deposits
central bank digital currency
monetary policy
Friedman rule
equivalence
Ramsey policy
bank profits
money creation
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Niepelt, Dirk
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2020
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Niepelt, Dirk
- Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2020