Authors:

  • Kenneth Rogoff

Excerpt

Costs and Benefits to Phasing Out Paper Currency. Kenneth Rogoff, May, 2014, Paper. "Despite advances in transactions technologies, paper currency still constitutes a notable percentage of the money supply in most countries. For example, it constitutes roughly 10% of the US Federal Reserve’s main monetary aggregate, M2. Yet, it has important drawbacks. First, it can help facilitate activity in the underground (tax-evading) and illegal economy. Second, its existence creates the artifact of the zero bound on the nominal interest rate. On the other hand, the enduring popularity of paper currency..." Link verified August 21, 2014