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On the Need for Legal Regulation of Virtual Currencies
The scientific article proves the necessity of legal regulation of relations connected with the use of virtual currencies (crypto-currency). The article examines the constituent elements of the definition of “virtual currency” (crypto-currency) from the ...
E. V. Voskresenskaya
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The Development of Non-Monetary Means of Payment [PDF]
This paper develops a model to investigate the private enforcement of non-monetary inter-firm payments in Russia during the 1990s. Since acceptability of means of payment can have a self-reinforcing nature, the dominance of non-monetary means of payment over money in Russia might have been a result of the driving forces of the demonetiziation ...
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The economic sociology of digitalised payment services
The article argues that digital means of payment aim at a fundamental change of the everyday economy by thrusting aside traditional banking. It compares the so far successful Paypal service with Bitcoin, which has failed to gain widespread acceptance as
Jürgen Schraten
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Bitcoin, Libra and Central Bank Digital Currencies — Elements of a New Monetary System?
After the launch of Bitcoin in 2008 and the subsequent introduction of more than 6,600 cryptocurrencies, a new wave of innovative payment projects is currently on its way, including innovations like Libra — designed as a supranational stable coin — and ...
Jonas Groß +2 more
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This gloss expresses approval of the theses set out in the Polish Supreme Court’s judgment delivered on 26 January 2023 in case II CSKP 566/22. In the judgment discussed, the Supreme Court supported the classification of means of payment within the ...
Kamil Wasilewski
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Means of Payment in Takeovers: Results for the U.K. and U.S. [PDF]
This paper examines means of payment in over 2,500 acquisitions in the UK and US over the period 1955 to 1985. Data on financing proportions, bid premia and postmerger performance are used to test the validity of tax and information hypotheses. It is difficult to explain many of the results in terms of tax effects.
Franks, Julian R +2 more
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Why Do Shoppers Use Cash? Evidence from Shopping Diary Data [PDF]
Recent studies find that cash remains a dominant payment choice for small-value transactions despite the prevalence of alternative methods of payment such as debit and credit cards.
Wakamori, Naoki, Welte, Angelika
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Cybercrime in Slovakia in the Context of European Union Legislation [PDF]
A negative phenomenon in the form of cybercrime has become a society-wide problem addressed not only by national legislators, but also by the structures of the member states of the EU integration group, the member states of the interna-tional ...
Adrián Vaško, Jaroslav Klátik
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In search of value drivers in mergers and acquisitions: The Nordic evidence [PDF]
The international literature on M&As is extensive, but surprisingly little evidence exists for the Nordic countries. This article attempts to fill the gap by studying 184 merger announcements from 1995 to 2014.
Caspar Rose +2 more
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Acceptability, Means of Payment, and Media of Exchange
This essay explains the use of fiat money, or why intrinsically useless objects are accepted as payment in transactions. People accept a particular object as a means of payment because others do: social conventions matter more than the intrinsic characteristics of the object itself. Not everything can become a fiat money, though.
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Randall Wright
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