It has been long recognized that cash plays a critical role in fueling street crime due to its liquidity and … transactional anonymity. In poor neighborhoods where street offenses are concentrated, a significant source of circulating cash … circulation of cash on the streets associated with EBT implementation had an effect on crime. To address this question, we exploit …

We examine how an innovation in payment technology impacts on consumer payment choice and cash demand. We study the … reduction in the cash share of payments and no reduction of average cash demand. Treatment effects on payment choice are … strongest among consumers with an intermediate pre-treatment use of cash. Explorative analyses reveal that effects are largely …

We analyze for the first time cash holdings of private households in all euro area countries from 2002 to 2019 within a … panel cointegration framework. Besides the traditional determinants of cash demand like transactions balances and … opportunity costs, we concentrate on cashless payments media as substitutes to cash payments and the role of the shadow economy …

? What do they imply for the future of cash and digital payments? We assemble a new "Future of Payments" database on retail … countries. We find that card-not-present payments, payment app downloads and the volume of cash in circulation all rose in weeks …

We estimate the demand for transaction and non-transaction cash balances in Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden and Norway … over the last decades using the seasonal method. These countries share many features that are relevant for cash demand, but … nevertheless show large differences in terms of aggregate cash balances. While Canada, Iceland and Denmark have seen increased …

- wide access to cash is fundamentally important for a healthy economy. In this study, three main research areas were …' payment choices; 3. underlying factors for holding cash in a wallet (i.e. for transactional purposes). Regression results for … income and education, or lower level of cash income are more likely to prefer and actually use electronic payment methods …