Cash is being used less and less for making payments in many countries, including Canada and Sweden, which might … suggest that cash will eventually disappear. However, cash in circulation in most countries, including Canada, has been stable … for decades, and even rising in recent years. In contrast, aggregate cash demand in Sweden has been falling steadily. This …

The period from the 1950s to the late 1970s saw an almost uniform decline of cash-to-GDP ratios in industrial countries … incomes. Rising wages increased the burden of weekly wage payments in cash, and rising incomes made the average earner more … than revolutionary, however. So, even though the cash-to-GDP ratio declined in this period, absolute amounts of real cash …

The topic of abolishing cash is discussed since some time, and economists such as Rogoff, Summers and Bofinger argue … argumentative lines of the supporters and opponents of an abolishing or limitation of cash, as well as the respective institutional …

€2 coins. Only in the case of €2 coins has the cash stock held for transaction purposes made a significant contribution … method of determining the demand for this denomination. Given the overall weakness in the growth of the cash held for …. Due to the inadequate data availability, the cash balance held for domestic transactions by sector cannot be fully …

. The transaction motive in the rest of the euro area and non-cash payments are part of the short-term dynamics. The long …

area, directly or via the French wholesale bank. Second, a "bottom-up" approach can be built-up, where the cash holdings of … use of cash for transactional purpose. Bearing in mind that those various approaches do not always separate the hoarding … similarities and differences between those several methods sheds light on the French national demand for cash by giving hints on …