handling potentially contaminated cash. This paper is the first empirical attempt in the literature to investigate whether the … risk of infectious diseases affects demand for physical cash. Since the intensity of cash use may influence the spread of … lowers demand for physical cash, after controlling for macroeconomic, financial, and technological factors. While the …

Monetary growth in the euro area has exceeded its target since several years. At the same time, the money demand …

Monetary growth in the euro area has exceeded its target since several years. At the same time, the money demand …

In this paper, we analyze theoretically the coexistence of two means of payment, such as cash and digital or electronic … payments, introducing some distortions in the payments markets to understand the widespread use of cash, specially in emerging … affecting cash usage and competition with a private digital payment platform. Considering heterogeneity in the seller's side by …

This paper analyzes the relationship between cash and tax evasion by studying the effects of two measures to fight … evasion: accessing taxpayers’ banking data to check the consistency with reported income and discouraging the use of cash with … thresholds on payments. We show that variation in cash holdings triggered by these policies can be substantial, about 1.5% of the …