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Money Creation in Different Architectures

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  • Gersbach, Hans
  • Faure, Salomon

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We examine monetary architectures in which money is solely created by the public and lent by the central bank to the private sector. We compare them to today's fractional-reserve system in which money is created mainly by commercial banks. We use a simple general equilibrium setting and determine under which conditions these architectures yield the same welfare and stability outcomes and under which conditions they do not. We show, in particular, that the decentralized sovereign money system yields the same level of money creation and allocation of commodities as the fractional-reserve monetary system if the central bank solely pursues interest-rate policy.

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  • Gersbach, Hans & Faure, Salomon, 2018. "Money Creation in Different Architectures," CEPR Discussion Papers 13156, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:13156
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    1. Dirk Niepelt, 2020. "Monetary Policy with Reserves and CBDC: Optimality, Equivalence, and Politics," Working Papers 20.05, Swiss National Bank, Study Center Gerzensee.
    2. Brunnermeier, Markus K. & Niepelt, Dirk, 2019. "On the equivalence of private and public money," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 106(C), pages 27-41.
    3. Dirk Niepelt, 2022. "Money and Banking with Reserves and CBDC," Diskussionsschriften dp2212, Universitaet Bern, Departement Volkswirtschaft.
    4. Florian B¨oser, 2021. "Monetary Policy under Subjective Beliefs of Banks: Optimal Central Bank Collateral Requirements," CER-ETH Economics working paper series 21/357, CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research (CER-ETH) at ETH Zurich.
    5. Florian B¨oser & Hans Gersbach, 2021. "Leverage Constraints and Bank Monitoring: Bank Regulation versus Monetary Policy," CER-ETH Economics working paper series 21/358, CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research (CER-ETH) at ETH Zurich.
    6. Gersbach, Hans & Böser, Florian, 2020. "Monetary Policy with a Central Bank Digital Currency: The Short and the Long Term," CEPR Discussion Papers 15322, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

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    Keywords

    Money creation; Chicago plan; Full-reserve banking; 100% reserve banking; Monetary architecture; Monetary system; Capital regulation; Reserve requirement; Monetary policy; Price rigidities;
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    JEL classification:

    • D50 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - General
    • E4 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates
    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages

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