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Nov 2018

Digital Money: Private versus Public

Barry EICHENGREEN
Both proponents and opponents of central bank digital currency have suggested that it would fundamentally change the macroeconomy. This column questions this paradigm, arguing that the introduction of such a currency need not alter the allocation nor the price system. Concerns about central bank dig...
Keywords: Central bank digital currency, Investment, bank runs
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Sep 2020

Crowdfunding for Infrastructure Project Financing: Lesson Learned for Asian Countries

Nika PRANATA, Nur FIRDAUS, Erla MYCHELISDA, Achsanah HIDAYATINA
Infrastructure plays a pivotal role in national development. However, financing infrastructure projects becomes a major hurdle as it is often considered unbankable, high risk, and requires a long payback period. The use of crowdfunding as an alternative source for infrastructure project financing is...
Keywords: Crowdfunding, blended finance, commercial infrastructure financing
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Jan 2017

Credit Misallocation During the European Financial Crisis

Fabiano SCHIVARDI, Enrico SETTE, Guido TABELLINI
Using data on bank-firm relationships in Italy during the Eurozone financial crisis, we show that: (i) compared to healthy banks, under-capitalised banks cut credit to healthy but not to zombie firms and are more likely to prolong a credit relationship with a zombie; (ii) in area sectors with more l...
Keywords: bank capitalization, Zombie Lending, capital misallocation
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Sep 2020

China’s debt relief actions overseas: Patterns, interactions with other creditors and macroeconomic implications

Gatien BON, Gong CHENG
This paper explores a novel database of 140 Chinese debt restructurings overseas between 2000 and 2019. It uncovers a number of salient features of the restructuring terms that China has offered in the past and the ways in which China has interacted with other types of creditor and the International...
Keywords: China, sovereign debt restructuring, Paris Club
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Nov 2018

Cellular structure for a digital fiat currency

Robleh ALI
Bitcoin introduced digital money without banks. It showed that functions of the financial system could be reliably executed by decentralized networks and in doing so raised the prospect of a new financial system. Almost a decade later, Bitcoin still works despite frequent predictions of its demise b...
Keywords: Bitcoin, digital currency, financial system
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