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Means of Payment

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  • Nancy L Stokey

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When consumers or firms purchase goods or pay bills, they must choose a means of payment: cash, credit card, check, electronic transfer, etc. What governs those choices? In particular, how do their choices vary with the inflation rate, and how do total transaction costs change?

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  • Nancy L Stokey, 2019. "Means of Payment," 2019 Meeting Papers 1218, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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