This paper investigates the impact of newspaper publications about debit card skimming fraud on debit card usage in the … phenomenon of skimming fraud significantly affect the number of debit card payments. The direction of the effect depends on the … type of skimming fraud addressed. Newspaper articles on fraud at points-of-sale (POS) and ticket machines depress the …

This paper investigates the impact of newspaper publications about debit card skimming fraud on debit card usage in the … phenomenon of skimming fraud significantly affect the number of debit card payments. The direction of the effect depends on the … type of skimming fraud addressed. Newspaper articles on fraud at points-of-sale (POS) and ticket machines depress the …

We investigate the role of corruption in the business environment in explaining the efficiency of within … conditional convergence model, we find evidence of a positive relationship between corruption growth and both labour and capital … misallocation dynamics, once country framework conditions are controlled for: the link between corruption and input misallocation …

In this paper, we discuss how fraud liability regimes impact the price structure that is chosen by a monopolistic … payment platform, in a setting where merchants can invest in fraud detection technologies. We show that liability allocation … a responsibility regime is not implemented. We determine the allocation of fraud losses between the payment platform and …

We assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU15 over the period 1970-2006 using stationarity and … policy was sustainable both for the EU15 panel set, and within subperiods (1970-1991 and 1992-2006). …

We use a 3-step analysis to assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU27. Firstly, we perform the SURADF … and revenues via SUR analysis. While results imply that public finances were not unsustainable for the EU panel, fiscal …

, in the Central and Eastern European EU Member States. Using panel estimations for the period between 1995 and 2006, we …

between the two imbalances for each country for the period 1970-2007, and for different EU and OECD country groupings. The …