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Do we need central bank digital currency? : economics, technology and institutions

Gnan, Ernest (ed.); Masciandaro, Donato (ed.) - Do We Need Central Bank Digital Currency?: Economics, …; … - 2018

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Harvey, Campbell R.; Abou Zeid, Tarek; Draaisma, Teun; … - 2022

We provide practical insights for investors seeking exposure to the growing cryptocurrency space. Today, crypto is much more than just bitcoin, which historically dominated the space but accounted for just a 21% share of total crypto trading volume in 2021. We discuss a wide variety of tokens,...

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Debtors’ prisons in America: An economic analysis

Baker, Matthew J.; Cosgel, Metin; Miceli, Thomas J. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 1, pp. 216-228

Debtors’ prisons have been commonplace throughout history, including in the United States. While imprisonment for debt no doubt elicited some repayment by benefactors of the debtor, we argue that its primary function was to deter default in the first place by giving borrowers an incentive to...

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Addressing e-commerce chargebacks effectively : an interview with Gary Cardone

Cardone, Gary; Bruggink, Diederik - In: Journal of payments strategy & systems 9 (2015) 1, pp. 12-21

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Hybridization of SOM and PSO for detecting fraud in credit card

Arora, Suman; Kumar, Dharminder - In: International journal of information systems in the … 9 (2017) 3, pp. 17-36

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Financial crime spillovers : does one gain to be avenged?

Batz, Laure de - 2019

This paper examines the spillovers of the sanction procedures on listed companies which were victims of others' financial regulatory breaches (i.e. regulated entities or individuals). Market manipulators can be investigated and possibly sanctioned for doing so, according to the French...

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Does tax evasion affect economic crime?

Argentiero, Amedeo; Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2018

crime that are related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robbery, theft and car theft), fraud and usury … tax evasion positively affects economic crimes. Notably, the elasticity of tax evasion to fraud is related to the size of … adjustment costs. Finally, we find that property crimes, fraud and usury are not influenced by deterrence or clearing …

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Technology adoption and access to credit via mobile phones

Gupta, Apoorv; Ponticelli, Jacopo; Tesei, Andrea - 2019

Farmers in developing countries often lack access to timely and reliable information about modern technologies that are essential to improve agricultural productivity. The recent diffusion of mobile phones has the potential to overcome these barriers by making information available to those...

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The reaction of consumer spending and debt to tax rebates : evidence from consumer credit data

Agarwal, Sumit (contributor); Liu, Chunlin (contributor); … - 2007 - Rev.

We use a new panel dataset of credit card accounts to analyze how consumers responded to the 2001 federal income tax rebates. We estimate the monthly response of credit card payments, spending, and debt, exploiting the unique, randomized timing of the rebate disbursement. We find that on average...

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Understanding the cash demand puzzle

Jiang, Janet Hua; Shao, Enchuan - 2014

We develop a model to explain a puzzling trend in cash demand in recent years: the value of bank notes in circulation …

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