Privacy and the acceptance of centralized digital currencies in the U.S., India and Germany.

ABSTRACT: National governments around the world increasingly acknowledge the possibility of introducing new digital forms of money and implementing policies that trigger their adoption. Knowledge about the acceptance of such measures, however, is rather limited. Next to the regulatory uncertainty about the impact of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) on competition, on financial stability and questions on the integrity and technical implementations of a CBDC, recent announcements of the joint venture of e.g. the European Central Bank with a large and globally operating private company emphatically raise questions about data privacy. Therefore, we report results of a survey experiment conducted in the United States of America, Germany and India to investigate the acceptance of an app-based monthl

SUBMITTER: Mehlkop G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10228898 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature