In May 2005, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City sponsored a conference, "Interchange Fees in Credit and Debit Card Industries: What Role for Public Authorities?" Conference participants included prominent industry executives, legal authorities, academics, and central bankers from around the...

We exploit scanner data to track payment choice for grocery purchases for a large panel of households over three years. We show that households focus most of their expenditures on one or at most two of these instruments in choosing between using cash, a check, or a card, and they very rarely...

Germans are still very fond of using cash. Of all direct payment transactions, cash accounts for an astounding 82% in terms of number, and for 58% in terms of value. With a new and unique dataset that combines transaction information with survey data on payment behaviour of German consumers, we...

For two decades, Visa Inc. has contracted with a market research firm to gather detailed information from U.S. consumers about the forms of payment they use when carrying out transactions at many types of merchants. This omnibus project, the Visa Payment Panel Study, has recorded the migration...

Identity theft is a serious and growing problem. The Federal Reserve and other agencies are proposing rules that would require financial institutions and creditors to establish programs to combat the crime.