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 …

cash by households. This paper presents an estimation of the number and value of cash transactions in all 19 euro area … that can contribute to improving the efficiency of the cash cycle and the payment system as a whole. Previous estimates of … the value of cash usage by households in the euro area date from 2008. Since then some central banks have carried out …

We analyze for the first time cash holdings of private households in all euro area countries from 2002 to 2019 within a … panel cointegration framework. Besides the traditional determinants of cash demand like transactions balances and … opportunity costs, we concentrate on cashless payments media as substitutes to cash payments and the role of the shadow economy …

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 …

This paper empirically investigates whether individuals withhold a certain amount of cash for precautionary reasons at … the point-of-sale (POS) in order to be able to cover future transactions that might have to be paid for in cash. Such … being settled in cash declines significantly as the amount of cash available at one’s disposal decreases. This indicates …

. Using Japanese household data from 2007 to 2014, we find that three payment instruments, namely, cash, electronic money, and … find that high-income, financially sophisticated households in urban areas tend to use both electronic money and cash …. Further, family households choosing electronic money and cash do not have higher cash holdings compared with family households …

U.S. consumers' demand for cash is estimated with new panel micro data for 2008-2010 using econometric methodology … zero, cash demand by consumers using credit cards for convenience (without revolving debt) has the same small, negative …, interest elasticity as estimated in earlier periods and with broader money measures. However, cash demand by consumers using …