Central Bank Digital Currency and Banking Choices
Economics Speaker Series Seminar will feature Jiaqi Li, Bank of Canada economist
Date: Friday, March 3
Time: 3 pm
Location: Arts 106
About this event
Bank of Canada economist Jiaqi Li will be presenting at this Economics Speaker Series Seminar.
To what extent does a central bank digital currency compete with traditional financial institutions? We develop and empirically estimate a structural model where each household decides in which institution to deposit their liquid digital balance, taking into account the utilities from holding liquid assets (in cash and digital money) and from potentially taking out a mortgage, in addition to the branch networks.
While financial institutions tend to provide higher utilities from liquid asset holdings through higher deposit rates and from the complementarity between deposit accounts and loans, a non-interest-bearing CBDC that does not provide lending services can still have nonnegligible impacts on financial institutions by providing better branch networks. We find that if every (no) bank branch is a service location for CBDC, it can crowd out the deposits by 28.9% (1.2%) on average across banks. However, introducing even a very large holding limit on CBDC can significantly reduce its uptake.
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