Time-series data on cash use in any country is essentially nonexistent. An econometric
model is developed to overcome this difficulty. Applied to the US, we estimate cash use over …

Purpose The evolution of technology has become the mainstream of the current
technological innovation era. Technological change is organized in its unique pattern and a …

The euro's introduction highlights several shortcomings of cash and coins, and some
advantages of paying with plastic, but is hard currency an endangered species, threatened …

Hypercrime develops a new theoretical approach toward current reformulations in criminal
behaviours, in particular the phenomenon of cybercrime. Emphasizing a spatialized …

In this paper, we combine two theories of the dynamics of a large socio-technical system—
technology drift and actor-network theory—to address how and why information …

Everywhere in Europe the payments' patterns are changing: card-based payments are
becoming more and more diffused for everyday purchases, at the detriment of notes and …

Non-cash payments have been increasing significantly, followed by its substitution and
efficiency effects. Cash payment is substituted, inducing a decrease of cash holding by …

As legal use of cash falls with the expansion of privately-issued payment cards,
governments lose seigniorage benefits and revenues will be needed to redeem currency. To …

The electronic purse (chip-card) is promoted as an option offering consumers an easy
means of payment. It also offers advantages to traders and banks by reducing transaction …

This paper recovers micro cost schedules of consumers' payment instruments from
aggregate transaction costs. We assume that only two moments of the size distribution of …