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How to become a cashless economy and what are the determinants of eliminating cash

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  • Josep Maria Raya
  • Claudia Vargas

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This paper aims to ascertain the determinants by which individuals decide to use credit cards as a payment method rather than cash; that is, to understand changes in socioeconomic factors on the long-term use of alternatives to cash. Using the data from the waves (2002–2017) of the Spanish Survey of Household Finances (SSHF) and a panel data estimation (static and dynamic), we identify education, age, income and wealth as the main drivers of credit cards as a payment method. We disentangle the effect of age and the cohort effect. We check for nonlinearity problems and card use persistence. A secondary aim is to establish, using a controlled experiment, some of the financial consequences of being a cashless economy.

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  • Josep Maria Raya & Claudia Vargas, 2022. "How to become a cashless economy and what are the determinants of eliminating cash," Journal of Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(1), pages 543-562, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:recsxx:v:25:y:2022:i:1:p:543-562
    DOI: 10.1080/15140326.2022.2052000
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