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Central Bank Digital Currency: A Technical, Legal and Economic Analysis

Central Bank Digital Currency: A Technical, Legal and Economic Analysis

Author: Leo Kriese
Publisher: Springer International
ISBN: 9783031447402
Published In: November 2024
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: Switzerland ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This book offers a deeper understanding of digitisation and innovative technologies in the financial sector. It focuses on a digital version of sovereignly created money that is accessible to the broad public. This central bank digital currency (CBDC) raises several questions. Will CBDC lead to public surveillance of the citizens? What is digital money in the legal sense? And what is the difference to already existing forms of digital money? This book addresses main questions associated with central bank digital currency by providing background information as well as in-depth analyses.

The book introduces a basic understanding of innovative technologies such as the distributed ledger technology. It shows how a system of money can be created and what roles each participant has. Taking an economic point of view, the book demonstrates the monetary policy in the euro area and examines how a digital version of public money could affect the transmission mechanism as well as the financial stability. Could CBDC lead to a "digital bank run"? Could it replace the established financial intermediaries such as banks? What would that mean to the economy?

Mainly, the book focuses on the legal issues of CBDC. Which is the competent institution for establishing digital public money? Will digital money change the way of how we handle financial data? Also, the book examines the legal usability of CBDC in the economy. How can digital money based on innovative technologies be transferred in accordance with the law? Can a debtor of a monetary claim flee into the digital currency? This book addresses the public and private sector participants as well as the legislators on how to handle CBDC. Most important, the book addresses everyone interested in digitisation and innovative financial technology who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the next big evolvement of money.

Part I: Understanding the notion of central bank digital currency

Chapter 1: Terminology and motives for central bank digital currency

Chapter 2: Technical design

Part II: Analysing the legal aspects of central bank digital currency

Chapter 3: Monetary constitutional law

Chapter 4: Roles of the parties involved

Chapter 5: Status as legal tender

Chapter 6: Aspects of fundamental rights

Chapter 7: Private law

Part III: Analysing the economic aspects of central bank digital currency

Chapter 8: Economic implications of central bank digital currency

Chapter 9: Monetary policy