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Computerization of social life enabled market participants to search for new forms of electronic payments. The share of cash in total payments is systematically decreasing, which poses the risk of being supplanted by other instruments, including cryptocurrencies. Central banks, therefore, faced...
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"banknotes" or "checks." The distinction between the two is that a check must be redeemed by the issuing bank with each use … limits the bank's risk-taking behavior, so that banknotes will be preferred over checks. …
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explanation for the continued popularity of checks. An underlying assumption of these studies is that check float operates as a …
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also provide more overdraft credit and bounce a smaller share of checks following preemption. The share of low …
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Though checks' popularity is now waning in favor of electronic payments, checks were, for much of the twentieth century … payment between local merchants, checks became more versatile through the development of negotiability in sixteenth …-century Europe. The suppression of banknotes in eighteenth-century England further promoted the use of checks. In the United States …
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With the rising popularity of the Internet, interactions between companies and their consumers have become more common and meaningful. Researchers often tend to apply the metaphor of community to these on-line networks of B2C relationships. However, this term implies durability and a long-term...
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Objective: This paper investigates the explicit and implicit factors affecting private-label (PL) products' possible purchase decision for different retailers. Design: The study uses eyetracking and electroencephalography (EEG) to explore the differences in eye movement and brain activity for PL...
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the problem of power distribution within networks of relationships between companies and consumers (business-to-consumer (B2C) networks) and to examine the ways in which value is created and captured in such structures. To this end, we applied the network...
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We experimentally study competitive markets with socially responsible production. Our main focus is on the producers' decision whether or not to reveal the degree of social responsibility of their product. Compared to two benchmark cases where either full transparency is enforced or no...
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Surges in e-commerce sales represent a huge challenge for urban freight transport. Parcel lockers constitute a valid solution for addressing the challenges home deliveries imply. In fact, eliminating courier-consumer contact (also relevant for health-related issues, as made evident by the...
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