We examine how an innovation in payment technology impacts on consumer payment choice and cash demand. We study the … reduction in the cash share of payments and no reduction of average cash demand. Treatment effects on payment choice are … strongest among consumers with an intermediate pre-treatment use of cash. Explorative analyses reveal that effects are largely …

This study investigates the benefits of cash in a general context. First, we explicitly address the arguments of cash … critics, who are calling for cash to be abolished altogether. Second, we show that cash plays a crucial role in the current … two-tier banking system. Third, we are discussing a number of selected benefits of cash, inter alia its use in financial …

cash holding. To do this, we use the new data for Poland and review original datasets from Bates et al. [2009] for the U ….S. We find no trace of a trend for Poland and believe most trends for the U.S. come from the cash piling toward the end of … the sample period. At best, the U.S. trend applies merely to small firms. We believe cash holding is a period …

The study explores the factors likely to induce Polish customers to pay by cash, instead of payment cards, for goods …; then, in the second stage, the OLS model is employed to analyze the propensity to pay by cash, despite having a payment … in diary studies. Furthermore, we show that instances of merchants' refusal to accept cash significantly impacted payment …

charged to the merchants, who may be reluctant to accept cards and induce the cardholder to withdraw cash. In this paper, we … empirically verify for the first time the effect of the interchange fee on the decision to withdraw cash and compare it with that … there is a positive correlation between the cash usage and the level of the interchange fees. Accordingly, regulation of the …

In this paper we provide a general equilibrium model that helps explaining payment choice at the retail level: cash …

In this paper we develop a model where agents can acquire goods using cash and two non-cash alternatives. We use it to … other means of payments (cash and cards) and leads to a fast switch towards cheaper electronic transactions. Our analysis …

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 …