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An Analysis of El Salvador's Failed Bitcoin Experiment

An Analysis of El Salvador's Failed Bitcoin Experiment

Humann, Niklas

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Economics

ISBN10: 3346821269
ISBN13: 9783346821263
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Published: Jan 22 2023
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.07 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Seminar paper from the year 2023 in the subject Economics - Monetary theory and policy, grade: 1,3, University of Münster, language: English, abstract: This paper explores Bitcoin's potential as an alternative to a central bank-backed currency by analysing El Salvador's recent adoption of it as a legal tender. Such monetary experiments are rare, providing researchers with a unique possibility to identify the macroeconomic effects of monetary regime changes. I find that a medium of exchange is not simply created by a government adopting a new legal tender but by the broad acceptance of it by the populace, which occurs due to substantial relative benefits of the new currency to the status quo. In particular, I am going to argue that El Salvador's Bitcoin experiment failed, because the people of El Salvador did not perceive the need for a new currency and because Bitcoin does not fulfil any of the traditional functions of a currency.

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