The topic of abolishing cash is discussed since some time, and economists such as Rogoff, Summers and Bofinger argue … argumentative lines of the supporters and opponents of an abolishing or limitation of cash, as well as the respective institutional …

We measure consumers' use of cash by harmonizing payment diary surveys from seven countries. The seven diary surveys … United States). Our paper finds cross-country differences – for example, the level of cash usage differs across countries …. Cash has not disappeared as a payment instrument, especially for low-value transactions. We also find that the use of cash …

The rising stockpile of cash as a share of total assets at U.S. firms has intrigued economists since at least the paper … of Bates, Kahle, and Stulz (2006), yet there has been relatively little work on where this cash has come from and how it … is related to investment performance. We exploit Statement of Cash Flows data from Compustat to decompose firms' cash …

Merchant fees and reward programs generate an implicit monetary transfer to credit card users from non-card (or cash … average, each cash-using household pays $149 to card-using households and each card-using household receives $1,133 from cash …