Data and Code for: Cash is Alive: How Economists Explain Holding and Use of Cash

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Oz Shy, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

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Project Citation: 

Shy, Oz. Data and Code for: Cash is Alive: How Economists Explain Holding and Use of Cash. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-04-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/E160142V1

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Summary:  View help for Summary Research on holding and use of cash involves many aspects such as: reasons for holding and hoarding cash, transactional demand for cash, cash management, type of spending paid with cash, type of consumer who pays cash, merchant acceptance, how consumers get cash, currency denominations, legal aspects, cash substitutes, and cost of cash. The purpose of this article is to introduce the reader to some of the research economists do on consumer holding and use of cash.


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      D11 Consumer Economics: Theory
      D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
      E41 Demand for Money
      E42 Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems


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