The winners of the 3rd SUERF/UniCredit & Universities Foundation Research Prize will present their papers at the SUERF/UniCredit & Universities Foundation Workshop in Vienna on 10 December 2015.

Over millennia, mankind has used hard cash in various forms ranging from shells to gold coins and paper. More recently, cash has become unpopular in political circles, as it effectively restricts states’ power to tax (explicitly or via negative interest rates) or to survey and potentially...