Consumer Cash Usage: A Cross-Country Comparison with Payment Diary Survey Data

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John Bagnall

Reserve Bank of Australia

David Bounie

Télécom Paris

Kim P. Huynh

Government of Canada - Bank of Canada; Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Economics

Anneke Kosse

Government of Canada - Bank of Canada

Tobias Schmidt

Deutsche Bundesbank - Research Center

Scott D. Schuh

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - Research Department

Helmut Stix

Oesterreichische Nationalbank - Economic Studies Division

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Date Written: 2014

Abstract

We measure consumers' use of cash by harmonizing payment diary surveys from seven countries: Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States (conducted 2009 through 2012). Our paper finds important cross-country differences, for example, the level of cash usage differs across countries. Cash has not disappeared as a payment instrument, especially for low-value transactions. We also find that the use of cash is strongly correlated with transaction size, demographics, and point-of-sale characteristics, such as merchant card acceptance and venue.

Keywords: money demand, payment systems, harmonization, payment diaries, crosscountry comparison

JEL Classification: E41, D12, E58

Suggested Citation

Bagnall, John and Bounie, David and Huynh, Kim P. and Kosse, Anneke and Schmidt, Tobias and Schuh, Scott and Stix, Helmut, Consumer Cash Usage: A Cross-Country Comparison with Payment Diary Survey Data (2014). Bundesbank Discussion Paper No. 13/2014, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2796990 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2796990

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