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forms of payments. Using administrative data on firms' tax returns and variation in the strength of the demonetization shock … across local areas, we find that greater use of electronic payments leads to firms reporting more sales to the tax … authorities. Our estimates imply that the shift to electronic payments increased reported sales by 5% despite demonetization …
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While the "cashless society" has not yet fully become a reality, payment choices by consumers and merchants have been moving the U.S. economy in that direction slowly and steadily over the past five decades. In this study, a companion paper to Garcia-Swartz (2006a) in this volume, we lay out the...
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Ever since the first general-purpose charge card debuted in the early 1950s, pundits have been predicting the "cashless society". Over fifty years later, we may finally be getting close to that vision. This study is the first to examine empirically the move toward a cashless society using a...
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We survey the limited data that exists concerning the cost of making/receiving a payment by banks, retailers, and other parties to a transaction. Since an electronic payment costs between one-third and one-half that of a paper-based instrument, a country may save 1% of its GDP annually as it...
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electronic forms of payment, such as debit cards and electronic bill payments. Particularly, the use of direct deposit is a …
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analysed and tested in earlier studies. In this paper a similar study is made for the market for electronic card payments, i …
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prepaid cards, and payments system security, and to payment card industry participants, desiring to advance their product …
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Starting from the solution of aggregating micropayments in a local area network that operates with reduced costs, with simple and easy to use equipments, with security procedures that are not so complicated, based on the rapport between the cost of fraud and the expected value obtained through...
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