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Should a central bank take over the provision of e-money, a circulable electronic liability? We discuss how e-money technology changes the trade-off between public and private provision, and the tradeoff between e-money and a central bank's existing liabilities like bank notes and reserves. The tradeoffs depend on i) the technological setup of the e-money system.

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