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Firm Inattention and the Efficacy of Monetary Policy: A Text-Based Approach
Staff Working Paper 2022-3
Wenting Song,
Samuel Stern
How much attention do firms pay to macroeconomic news? Through a novel text-based measure, two facts emerge. First, attention is polarized. Most firms either never or always pay attention to economic conditions. Second, it is countercyclical. During recessions, more firms pay attention, and firms pay greater attention to macroeconomic news.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Business fluctuations and cycles,
Inflation and prices,
Monetary policy
JEL Code(s):
D,
D8,
D83,
E,
E4,
E44,
E5,
E52
What Drives Bitcoin Fees? Using Segwit to Assess Bitcoin's Long-Run Sustainability
Staff Working Paper 2022-2
Colin Brown,
Jonathan Chiu,
Thorsten Koeppl
We explore what drives transaction fees in the Bitcoin system and consider whether Bitcoin can remain tamper proof in the long run.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Digital currencies and fintech,
Payment clearing and settlement systems
JEL Code(s):
E,
E4,
E42,
G,
G2
Business Closures and (Re)Openings in Real Time Using Google Places
Staff Working Paper 2022-1
Thibaut Duprey,
Daniel E. Rigobon,
Philip Schnattinger,
Artur Kotlicki,
Soheil Baharian,
T. R. Hurd
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for policy-makers to closely monitor disruptions to the retail and food business sectors. We present a new method to measure business opening and closing rates using real-time data from Google Places, the dataset behind the Google Maps service.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Firm dynamics,
Recent economic and financial developments
JEL Code(s):
C,
C5,
C55,
C8,
C81,
D,
D2,
D22,
E,
E3,
E32
Best Before? Expiring Central Bank Digital Currency and Loss Recovery
Staff Working Paper 2021-67
Charles M. Kahn,
Maarten van Oordt,
Yu Zhu
We consider introducing an expiry date for offline digital currency balances. Consumers whose digital cash expired would automatically receive the funds back into their online account. This functionality could increase demand for digital cash, with the time to expiry playing a key role.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Digital currencies and fintech
JEL Code(s):
E,
E4,
E41,
E42
News-Driven International Credit Cycles
Staff Working Paper 2021-66
Galip Kemal Ozhan
This paper examines the implications of positive news about future asset values that turn out to be incorrect at a later date in an open economy model with banking. The model captures the patterns of bank credit and current account dynamics in Spain between 2000 and 2010. The model finds that the use of unconventional policies leads to a milder bust.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Credit and credit aggregates,
Economic models,
Financial stability,
Recent economic and financial developments,
Sectoral balance sheet
JEL Code(s):
E,
E4,
E44,
F,
F3,
F32,
F4,
F41,
G,
G1,
G15,
G2,
G21
Predicting the Demand for Central Bank Digital Currency: A Structural Analysis with Survey Data
Staff Working Paper 2021-65
Jiaqi Li
How much of a CBDC would Canadian households want to hold, and what design features of a CBDC would they care about?
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Central bank research,
Digital currencies and fintech
JEL Code(s):
E,
E5,
E50,
E58
Quantifying the Economic Benefits of Payments Modernization: the Case of the Large-Value Payment System
Staff Working Paper 2021-64
Neville Arjani,
Fuchun Li,
Zhentong Lu
Canada is undertaking a major initiative to modernize its payments ecosystem. The modernized ecosystem is expected to bring significant benefits to Canadian financial markets and the overall economy. We develop an empirical framework to quantify the economic benefits of modernizing the payment system in Canada.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial institutions,
Financial system regulation and policies,
Payment clearing and settlement systems
JEL Code(s):
C,
C3,
E,
E4,
E42,
G,
G1,
G2,
G28
Central Bank Digital Currency and Banking: Macroeconomic Benefits of a Cash-Like Design
Staff Working Paper 2021-63
Jonathan Chiu,
Mohammad Davoodalhosseini
Should a CBDC be more like cash or bank deposits? An interest-bearing, cash-like CBDC not only makes payments more efficient but also increases total demand. This has positive effects on other transactions, inducing more deposit taking and lending and, thus, bank intermediation.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Digital currencies and fintech,
Monetary policy,
Monetary policy framework
JEL Code(s):
E,
E5,
E50,
E58
Revisiting the Monetary Sovereignty Rationale for CBDCs
Staff Discussion Paper 2021-17
Skylar Brooks
One argument for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) is that without them, private and foreign digital monies could displace domestic currencies, threatening the central bank’s monetary policy and lender of last resort capabilities. I revisit this monetary sovereignty rationale and offer a wider view—one that considers a broader set of currency functions and captures important cross-country variation.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff discussion papers
Topic(s):
Debt management,
Digital currencies and fintech,
Exchange rate regimes,
Financial stability,
Monetary policy
JEL Code(s):
E,
E4,
E41,
E42,
E5,
E52,
E58,
H,
H1,
H12,
H6,
H63