[eng] Payment Efficiency in Euro and Monetary Denomination Systems. . This study aims at measuring the efficiency of the European monetary denomination system. On the contrary to the previous studies based on a uniform distribution of prices in the economy, we introduce a real distribution of...

In this paper, we study and test the monetary denominational systems satisfying a given constraint of cognitive complexity. We show that introducing an 80 cents coin in the European denominational system would decrease the average number of coins needed in the economy by about 16%

In this paper, we generalize the power-of-2 and the power-of-3 monetary denomination systems (MDS) widely studied in the literature by considering the class of the power-of-amp;#945; MDSs for all real amp;#945; strictly between 1 and infinity. We show that for theoretical distributions of prices as...

The objective of this paper is to explain the use of cash, payment cards and checks in the economy. In so doing, we propose three models of payment decision and we test how well each of these models replicates the observed aggregate payments decisions. We show that the model based on cash...

In a recent contribution, Bounie et al. (2007a) proposed a simple alternative payment decision rule based on a cash holding model (CH model) that showed more efficiency at replicating the observed data than standard transaction size based models (TS models) agrave; la Whitesell (1989). In this...

Payment choice models based on transaction sizes (TS models) induce strong predictions about the use of payment instruments. Especially, all equal-sized transactions should be paid with the same payment instrument. Then, for each individual, one should observe strict domains of transaction for...