The properties of contemporary money

【Author】 Hull, Isaiah; Sattath, Or

【Source】JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SURVEYS

【影响因子】4.142

【Abstract】The properties of money commonly referenced in the economics literature were originally identified by Jevons and Menger in the late 1800s and were intended to describe physical currencies, such as commodity money, metallic coins, and paper bills. In the digital era, many non-physical currencies have either entered circulation or are under development, including demand deposits, cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, central bank digital currencies, in-game currencies, and quantum money. These forms of money have novel properties that have not been studied extensively within the economics literature, but may ultimately determine which currencies prevail in the forthcoming era of currency competition. This review makes the first exhaustive attempt to identify and organize all properties of physical and digital forms of money. It examines both the economics and computer science literatures and categorizes properties within an expanded version of the canonical Jevons-Menger framework.

【Keywords】central bank digital currency; cryptocurrencies; electronic payments; properties of money; quantum money

【发表时间】2023 2023 JUN 26

【收录时间】2023-07-14

【文献类型】综述

【主题类别】

区块链治理-市场治理-数字货币