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We study the demand for Swiss banknotes over the period from 1956 to 2015 and present stylized facts on different …, we focus on the demand for banknotes used as a store of value (“hoarding”), which can be expected to be particularly … seasonal pattern of CHF 1000 banknotes, which might not be related to transactions, we cannot rely on seasonal ranges including …
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In this paper, we examine the determinants of the choice of payment instrument for low-value day-to-day transactions. Using Japanese household data from 2007 to 2014, we find that three payment instruments, namely, cash, electronic money, and credit cards, comprise the major payment choices for...
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We analyse the forecasting power of different monetary aggregates and credit variables for US GDP. Special attention is paid to the influence of the recent financial market crisis. For that purpose, in the first step we use a three-variable single-equation framework with real GDP, an interest...
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Ever since the European Central Bank presented its monetary policy strategy on the basis of two pillars "economic" and "monetary" analysis with the latter being used as a cross-check of the first it has been criticized for giving too much importance to monetary aggregates. Opponents argue these...
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At the end of 2015, the Deutsche Bundesbank had issued a total net amount of just over €45 billion in €20 banknotes. In … statistical terms, each resident living in Germany was therefore issued with around 30 banknotes of this denomination. Up until … now, it was not clear how many of these German-issued euro banknotes are actually used for payment purposes. Owing to the …
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To facilitate a more detailed study of the volume of euro banknotes in circulation issued by the Deutsche Bundesbank …, around 65% to 70% of the arithmetical volume of euro banknotes issued by the Bundesbank were in circulation outside Germany …-interest-rate environment; instead, Bundesbank-issued euro banknotes may be circulating in other euro-area countries in greater numbers. …
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In this paper, we investigate the causal effect of years of schooling on health and health-related behavior in West Germany. We apply an instrumental variables approach using changes in compulsory schooling laws which took place from 1949 to 1969 as natural experiments. These law changed...
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The Demographic and Health Surveys from Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and Malawi reveal that a significant proportion of HIV infections in adolescent women occurred in women who claim to be virgin. Two possible conclusions arise from this observation: adolescent women misreport sexual status or non-sexual...
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This paper proposes a new tool in the field of telemedicine, defined as a specific branch where IT supports medicine, in case distance impairs the proper care to be delivered to a patient. All the information contained into medical texts, if properly extracted, may be suitable for searching,...
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