Cash and crises: No surprises by the virus

Arbeitspapier

Despite the increasing use of cashless payment instruments, the notion that cash loses importance over time can be unambiguously refuted. In contrast, the authors show that cash demand increased steeply over the past 30 years. This is not only true on a global scale, but also for the most important currencies in advanced countries (USD, EUR, CHF, GBP and JPY). In this paper, they focus especially on the role of different crises (technological crises, financial market crises, natural disasters) and analyse the demand for small and large banknote denominations since the 1990s in an international perspective. It is evident that cash demand always increases in times of crises, independent of the nature of the crisis itself. However, largely unaffected from crises we observe a trend increase in global cash aligned with a shift from transaction balances towards more hoarding, especially in the form of large denomination banknotes.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IMFS Working Paper Series ; No. 150

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Demand for Money ; Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers ; Central Banks and Their Policies
• Thema: Cash ; banknotes ; crises ; Corona

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Rösl, Gerhard ; Seitz, Franz
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS)
• (wo): Frankfurt a. M.
• (wann): 2021

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/229444
• URN: urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-564471
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ