Maria Elena Flippin defended her dissertation 9 September
Maria Elena Flippin defended her thesis on 9 September.
On 9 September, Maria Elena Filippin successfully defended her dissertation The Macroeconomics of Digital Money: Household Adoption, Bank Intermediation, and Monetary Policy.
Maria Elena Flippin on the day of the defense.
About the dissertation
Maria Elena Flippin's dissertation, titled 'The Macroeconomics of Digital Money: Household Adoption, Bank Intermediation, and Monetary Policy', consists of three papers that collectively contribute to further understanding of how Central Bank Digital Currency - a digital version of central bank money - design choices interact with household financial behavior and banking structures in shaping macroeconomic outcomes. The first paper provides intuition on how CBDC demand may vary by individuals’ characteristics. The second paper examines the risks to bank intermediation following the introduction of a CBDC competing with commercial bank deposits as households' source of liquidity. The third paper studies the implications of a CBDC for the transmission of household preference shocks, for monetary policy, and for welfare.
About the defence
The opponent at the public defence was Professor Dirk Niepelt from the University of Bern. The grading committee consisted of Professor Anders Ögren from Stockholm University, Marieke Bos from Stockholm University, and Erik Öberg from Uppsala University. The supervisors were Ulf Söderström from Sveriges Riksbank and Karl Walentin from Uppsala University.