Although euro banknotes and coins have been in circulation for fifteen years, not much is known about the actual use of … cash by households. This paper presents an estimation of the number and value of cash transactions in all 19 euro area … the value of cash usage by households in the euro area date from 2008. Since then some central banks have carried out …

requirements and holdings of equivalent central bank deposits - has tended to accumulate in specific euro area countries and in a … differences across the euro area and the "home bias" in euro area government bond holdings. Overall, the net cross-border flows of …

The quality of banknotes in the cash cycles of countries in the Eurosystem varies, despite all of these countries using … identical euro banknotes. While it is known that this is dependent on national characteristics, such as public use and the … involvement of the central bank in cash processing operations, the influence of all relevant parameters has not yet been …

-making, and thereby facilitates the maintenance of price stability in the euro area. A fully-fledged committee structure has also … contributed to the smooth integration of non-euro area Member States into the Eurosystem's monetary policy decision-making process. …