Cash use in most countries is falling slowly. On the margin, younger adults favor cash substitutes over cash. For older … the demand for cash and why it is falling. Cash use may continue to fall, and card use (the main cash substitute) may fall …

We estimate the effect of Bitcoin ownership on the level of cash holdings of Canadian consumers. Bitcoin ownership … positively correlates with cash holdings even after accounting for selection into ownership via a control function approach. On … average, Bitcoin owners hold 83 percent (in 2018) to 95 percent (in 2017) more cash than non-owners. Focusing on the quantiles …

I investigate the impact of contactless credit cards (CTCs) on cash use in Canada, using panel data between 2010 and … 2017. I show that ignoring unobserved heterogeneity would lead to overstating the impact of CTCs on cash usage in a linear … intensive margins of cash usage. I use a two-part model, with an exclusion restriction for better identification, to model both …

Ein Buch über die Politik des Geldes und den Umbruch, der gerade stattfindet vom Bargeld hin zu den digitalen Währungen … der unterschiedlichsten Form. Der Autor, ein Journalist mit Erfahrungen aus dem Finanzsektor und Aktivist für das Bargeld …, gibt sich enorme Mühe, die Vor- und Nachteile von Bargeld, Kartenzahlungen, digitalen Finanztransfers und den verschiedenen …