prefer using cash or merchants restrict card usage. Using the Bank of Canada's 2009 Method of Payment Survey, we estimate a …Recent studies find that cash remains a dominant payment choice for small-value transactions despite the prevalence of … card acceptance among merchants, we find that some consumers would decrease their cash usage but the magnitude of this …

suggest that the main reasons why cash is still a popular payment instrument in Canada, especially for small …The authors present key insights from the Bank of Canada’s 2009 Methods-of-Payment survey. In the survey, about 6 …, even though debit and credit cards account for close to 80 per cent of all transactions in terms of total value, cash is …