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Steven Schwarcz

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Steven L. Schwarcz
Briefing paper

Designing and regulating retail digital currencies

Governments and multinational organisations around the world have begun exploring the feasibility of developing retail digital currencies for domestic and global payments. This policy brief does not address bitcoin or other privately issued digital currencies that are not backed by assets having intrinsic value.