Despite the growing importance of the debit card in most developed countries, there are relatively few academic studies that analyze the impact of such evolution on the demand for cash. Beyond data availability, this research is complicated by the fact that the debit card provides two services...

The objective is to test, from micro-level data, the complete general framework of the transaction demand for money agrave; la Baumol established fifty years ago. The results confirm the relevancy of the Baumol's square root law while pointing out for the first time the impact of the subjective...

The protection of financial personal data has become a major concern for Internet users in the digital economy. This paper investigates whether the consumers' use of non-bank payment instruments that preserve financial privacy from banks and relatives may increase their online purchases. We...