cash or debit card discount, and even fewer were subjected to a credit card surcharge. Transactions at gasoline stations … were more likely to receive either cash discounts or credit card surcharges than transactions in other sectors. Larger …

of those payment instruments. The reverse is found for more established payment methods — cash, checks, and credit cards …

We measure consumers' use of cash by harmonizing payment diary surveys from seven countries. The seven diary surveys … United States). Our paper finds cross-country differences — for example, the level of cash use differs across countries. Cash … has not disappeared as a payment instrument, especially for low-value transactions. We also find that the use of cash is …

from the financial crisis and recession. Cash payments by consumers, which had increased sharply in 2009, did not fall back … but rather grew another 3 percent in 2010. However, the share of cash payments, the dollar amount of cash withdrawals, and … cash holdings by consumers decreased moderately in 2010. Credit card payments by consumers increased 15 percent, reversing …

Conventional wisdom asserts that $100 bills are often associated with crime and foreign cash holdings, leading some … commentators to call for their elimination; in light of this proposal, it is useful to examine the legal, domestic use of cash …