Coronavirus : Case for Digital Money?

We discuss the pros of adopting government-issued digital currencies as well as a supranational digital iCurrency. One such pro is to get rid of paper money (and coinage), a ubiquitous medium for spreading germs, as highlighted by the recent coronavirus outbreak. We set forth three policy recommendations for adapting mobile devices as new digital wallets, regulatory oversight of sovereign digital currencies and user data protection, and a supranational digital iCurrency for facilitating international digital monetary linkages

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Year of publication:	2020
Authors:	Kakushadze, Zura
Other Persons:	Liew, Jim Kyung-Soo (contributor)
Publisher:	[2020]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Coronavirus \| Elektronisches Geld \| Electronic money \| Welt \| World \| Geldpolitik \| Monetary policy \| Digitalisierung \| Digitization

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (12 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: World Economics 21(1) (2020) 177-190 Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments March 14, 2020 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.3554496 [DOI]
Classification:	G00 - Financial Economics. General ; G10 - General Financial Markets. General ; G13 - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing ; G15 - International Financial Markets ; G18 - Government Policy and Regulation ; G21 - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Mortgages ; G23 - Pension Funds; Other Private Financial Institutions ; G28 - Government Policy and Regulation ; C22 - Time-Series Models ; E40 - Money and Interest Rates. General ; E42 - Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System ; E43 - Determination of Interest Rates; Term Structure Interest Rates ; E50 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking and the Supply of Money and Credit. General ; E52 - Monetary Policy (Targets, Instruments, and Effects) ; E58 - Central Banks and Their Policies ; F31 - Foreign Exchange ; F33 - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions ; f65 ; I10 - Health. General ; I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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