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14.02.2020 - Comments

Central Bank Digital Currency

by Norbert F. Tofall

The model of digital central bank money proposed by ECB Director Ulrich Bindseil is not intended to use digitisation for monetary system reform. The ECB is thereby missing an opportunity.

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