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? What do they imply for the future of cash and digital payments? We assemble a new "Future of Payments" database on retail … countries. We find that card-not-present payments, payment app downloads and the volume of cash in circulation all rose in weeks …
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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 …
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We estimate a panel VAR model for the euro area to quantitatively asses the contribution of the TARGET2 system to the propagation of different types of structural economic shocks as well as to the historical evolution of aggregate economic activity in euro area member countries. Our results...
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Do digital payment technologies generate liquidity premia like cash and Treasury? We provide an estimate in the context … of the world's largest digital payment platform, Alipay. Our empirical strategy exploits the variation in the timing of …
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, investors show no differences in their level of security concerns with either cash or commercial banking services. We find that …
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which the CBDC is a direct cash-like claim on the central bank, but where the private sector handles all customer …
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banknotes and take due account of other determinants of cash demand. We find a significant and positive relationship between the … cash demand equation including the shadow economy. …
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The phenomenal growth of cryptocurrencies raises important questions about their footprint on the financial system. What role are traditional financial intermediaries playing in cryptocurrency markets and what drives their engagement? Are new nodes emerging? We help answer these questions by...
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In framework of Rochet and Tirole (2011), I allow for partial merchant internalization and study how MIT threshold is related to levels of inter-change fee that maximize various components of social welfare. I find that cost absorption on the side of issuers and merchant heterogeneity each bias...
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our problem allowing us to ask how old forms of money such as Gold and Silver hold up in today's world regarding their …
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