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The social and private costs of retail payment instruments: a European perspective
Schmiedel, Heiko; Kostova, Gergana; Ruttenberg, Wiebe - 2012
The European Central Bank (ECB) carried out a study of the social and private costs of different payment instruments with the participation of 13 national central banks in the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). It shows that the costs to society of providing retail payment services are...
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Social Costs of Energy Disruptions
Costantini, Valeria; Gracceva, Francesco - 2004
The costs of energy supply disruptions for industrialised economies go well beyond the economic measures of national accounts. According to different kinds of risks, physical shortages or price shocks, there are several categories of negative effects. Oil disruptions have both a direct and an...
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The social costs of health-related early retirement in Germany: Evidence from the German Socio-economic panel
Hostenkamp, Gisela; Stolpe, Michael - 2008
This study investigates the role of stratification of health and income in the social cost of healthrelated early retirement, as evidenced in the German Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP). We interpret early retirement as a mechanism to limit work-related declines in health that allows poorer and less...
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The costs of paying: Private and social costs of cash and card systems
Bergman, Mats; Guibourg, Gabriela; Segendorf, Björn - 2007
Despite the central role of payments in theoretical and policy oriented economics, there is surprisingly little known about the costs of different payment instruments. We estimate social and private costs of cash, debit and credit card payments in Sweden in 2002. The combined social cost of...
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The cost of consumer payments in Sweden
Segendorf, Björn; Jansson, Thomas - 2012
We estimate the social and private costs of consumer-to-business payments in Sweden in 2009. The combined social cost for these payments was 0.68 per cent of GDP. At the point of sale, cash is socially less costly than debit cards for payments below EUR 1.88 (SEK 20) and credit cards below EUR...
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Estimating the welfare costs of very high inflations and hyperinflations
Benati, Luca; Nicolini, Juan Pablo - 2024
We explore the welfare costs of inflation originating from lack of liquidity satiation for Weimar Republic's hyperinflation and three high-inflation countries. Towards the peak of Weimar's hyperinflation the costs are estimated to have been equal to nearly 20 per cent of income. For Israel,...
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The distributional impact of in kind public benefits in European countries
Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2009
International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and incidence of publicly-provided in kind benefits differ across the countries considered. The benefits that are financed by taxation in one country may need to be purchased out of...
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Child care subsidies and child development
Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2008
of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it overemphasizes work and does little to encourage … care subsidies for child development. In this paper, we provide a systematic assessment of the impact of subsidy receipt on … relationship between child care subsidies and child development. In particular, our results suggest that subsidy receipt in the …
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The child adoption marketplace: Parental preferences and adoption outcomes
Skidmore, Mark; Anderson, Gary; Eiswerth, Mark - 2011
In the United States child adoption costs vary considerably, ranging from no out-of-pocket expense to $50,000 or more. What are the underlying causes for the variability in child adoption expenses? While cost variability is widely acknowledged, the sources of the differentials have not been...
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