We provide an update on the impact the COVID-19 pandemic on the demand for cash and the use of methods of payment based on data from the Bank Note Distribution System and from consumer surveys conducted in April and August 2021. Our key findings are as follows: Cash in circulation remained high...

We conduct a follow-up to Chen et al. (2020) and study demand for and use of cash after the containment measures imposed at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic were relaxed during the summer of 2020. We find that bank notes in circulation continued to rise in July due to ongoing cash...

Das reibungslose Zusammenarbeiten von Programmen unterschiedlicher Hersteller ist für die Softwareindustrie von zentraler Bedeutung. Standards für Dokumentenformate, Kommunikationsprotokolle und Programmschnittstellen sichern die Interoperabilität von Systemen. Wettbewerbspolitisch stellen...

Truth routinely manifests itself through mathematics. Just as law uses words to animate its enterprise, nature speaks through the language of mathematics. Through this volume, Illustrating Finance Policy with Mathematica, Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos enriches the Palgrave Macmillan, series,...

Students in various disciplines-from law and government to business and health policy-need to understand several quantitative aspects of finance (such as the capital asset pricing model or financial options) and policy analysis (e.g., assessing the weight of probabilistic evidence) but often...