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Where's the Money? An Investigation into the Whereabouts and Uses of Australian Banknotes.
- Source :
- Australian Economic Review; Mar2020, Vol. 53 Issue 1, p22-34, 13p, 4 Charts, 5 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- The Reserve Bank of Australia is the sole issuer and redeemer of Australian banknotes, but between issuance and destruction there is little information about where banknotes go or what they are used for. We estimate the whereabouts and uses of Australian banknotes, and find that 15–35 per cent are used to facilitate legitimate transactions, 4–7 per cent are used for transactions in the shadow economy, while the remainder are non‐transactional. The vast majority of non‐transactional banknotes are likely to be hoarded, and we estimate that 5–10 per cent of outstanding banknotes are lost or collected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- BANK notes
INFORMAL sector
INVESTIGATIONS
MONEY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00049018
- Volume :
- 53
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Australian Economic Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 141934261
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8462.12342