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Guerra e moneta: come il conflitto in Ucraina cambiera' il sistema monetario internazionale (War and money: how the war in Ukraine will change the international monetary system)

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  • Lorenzo Esposito

    (Banca d'Italia e Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano)

  • Daniele Tori

    (The Open University Business School (UK))

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L'invasione dell'Ucraina cambiera' profondamente gli scenari economici e politici. Assieme alle sanzioni, accelerera' il processo di 'de-globalizzazione' innescato dalla crisi finanziaria del 2008 e dalla pandemia. In questo lavoro analizziamo gli effetti che le sanzioni avranno su questi processi, in particolare sul sistema monetario internazionale. Negli ultimi anni il dominio del dollaro come valuta dei pagamenti internazionali e' declinato ma lentamente, e i tentativi soprattutto della Cina e della Russia di emarginarlo non hanno avuto grande successo. Tuttavia, nel nuovo scenario i sistemi alternativi a SWIFT, particolarmente quello cinese, riceveranno un forte impulso cosi' come l'utilizzo di pagamenti in valute diverse dal dollaro. Come gia' successo in altre epoche storiche, il cambiamento della valuta di riferimento degli scambi internazionali e' legato a eventi epocali e a un cambio di paradigma tecnologico: la guerra e la valuta digitale cinese e poi di altri paesi potrebbero costituire le basi di questa svolta. The invasion of Ukraine will change the economic and political scenarios. Together with the sanctions, it will accelerate the 'de-globalization' process already triggered by the 2008 financial crisis and the pandemic. In this paper, we analyze the effects that economic sanctions will have, in particular, on the international monetary system. In recent years, the dominance of the dollar as the default international currency has weakened albeit slowly. However, in the new scenario, alternative systems to SWIFT (particularly the Chinese one) will receive a strong boost as will the use of payments in currencies other than the dollar. As has already happened in other historical periods, the change in the dominant international currency is linked to epochal events and to a change in the technological paradigm: the war and the development of a digital currency in China and then in other countries could form the basis of this turning point.

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  • Lorenzo Esposito & Daniele Tori, 2022. "Guerra e moneta: come il conflitto in Ucraina cambiera' il sistema monetario internazionale (War and money: how the war in Ukraine will change the international monetary system)," Moneta e Credito, Economia civile, vol. 75(298), pages 163-183.
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    Keywords

    payment system; SWIFT; digital currency; Russia;
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    JEL classification:

    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions

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