Consumer Surplus of Alternative Payment Methods : Paying Uber with Cash

Fernando E. Alvarez, David O. Argente

We estimate the private benefits for Uber riders from using alternative payment methods. We focus on Mexico where riders have the option to use cash or credit cards to pay for rides. We use three field experiments involving approximately 400,000 riders to estimate the loss of private benefits for riders if a ban on cash payments is implemented. We find that Uber riders, using cash as means of payment either sometimes or exclusively, suffer an average loss of approximately 50% of their expenditures on trips paid in cash before the ban

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Year of publication:	November 2020
Authors:	Alvarez, Fernando E.
Other Persons:	Argente, David O. (contributor)
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor)
Publisher:	2020: Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research
Subject:	Konsumentenrente \| Consumer surplus \| Zahlungsverkehr \| Payment transactions \| Bargeld \| Cash \| Vergütungssystem \| Compensation system \| Theorie \| Theory \| Konsumentenverhalten \| Consumer behaviour

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