Discussion of “Central bank digital currency: Stability and information”
Maarten R.C. van Oordt · Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control · 2022
Privacy in payments was selected by 3,382 respondents as the most-important potential digital euro feature, while the second most-popular feature -security of payments -was selected by 1,397 respondents as the most-important feature; see European Central Bank (2021 , Chart 4).In a similar vein, nearly 90% of Austrian residents supported the statement that "[c]ash should be retained so that anonymous payments can be made" in a recent CBDCsurvey by Abramova et al. (2022) .The privacy offered by a CBDC-account also received a high score of 4.54 on a scale from 1 ("absolutely not important") to 5 ("very important") in a survey among Dutch residents ( Bijlsma et al., 2021 ).