Cash is the preferred method of payment for small value transactions generally less than $25. We provide insight to … this finding with a new theoretical model that characterizes and compares consumers' costs of paying with cash to paying … significant number of cash users who switch to paying with debit or credit cards at transaction values marginally above $5 and $10 …

innovations on cash usage. We estimate a semiparametric panel data model that accounts for unobserved heterogeneity and allows for … general forms of non-random attrition. We use annual data from the CFM on the methods of payment and cash usage for the period … 2010 - 12. Estimates based on crosssectional methods find a large impact of retail payment on cash usage (around 10 percent …

. Nevertheless, the use of cash remains significant. We hypothesize that the lack of card acceptance at the point of sale is a key … reason why cash continues to play an important role. We formulate a simple inventory model that predicts that the level of … cash demand falls with an increase in card acceptance. We use detailed payment diary data from Austrian and Canadian …

. Nevertheless, the use of cash remains significant. We hypothesize that the lack of card acceptance at the point of sale is a key … reason why cash continues to play an important role. We formulate a simple inventory model that predicts that the level of … cash demand falls with an increase in card acceptance. We use detailed payment diary data from Austrian and Canadian …

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 …