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Less cash on the counter: Forecasting Finnish payment preferences [PDF]

Finnish payment methods have changed rapidly as payment cards have gained increasing popularity and have, to an extent, replaced cash. This article examines this phenomenon and the trends in cash and electronic payment methods in Finland.
Jyrkönen , Hanna
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Striking a Bargain: Narrative Identification of Wage Bargaining Shocks

Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wage markup shocks, an important driver of business cycles, are hard to pin down. We quantify the importance of exogenous variation in wage bargaining power, one source of those shocks, from German minimum wage introduction episodes and strikes. This disciplines the impulse responses of unemployment and output, and sharpens inference for other
Žymantas Budrys, Mario Porqueddu, Andrej Sokol   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Willingness to Pay for Pharmacist-Led Weight Management Services in Community Pharmacies: A Cross-Sectional Study in an Academic Medical Center in Saudi Arabia. [PDF]

Healthcare (Basel)
Almazrou SH, Alwakail D, Almanea F, AlAujan SS.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Italian consumers’ willingness to pay for renewable energy sources [PDF]

EU Directive 2009/72/CE imposes to the European Countries environmental and energy targets. The Italian goal is to attain a 17% share in electricity production from renewable energy sources (RES) by 2020.
Polinori, Paolo, Bigerna, Simona
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Small Area Consumption Estimates Combining Survey and Financial Footprints Data

Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We estimate average equivalised consumption measures across 370 local authority districts in Great Britain, using small‐area estimation methods that combine information from a household budget survey, a much larger survey of local demographics and employment, and area‐level information on bank account outflows and energy consumption.
Peter Levell, Lars Nesheim, Gautam Vyas
wiley   +1 more source

Disclosing the costs of co-holding liquid assets and high-interest debt has limited impact on behavior. [PDF]

PNAS Nexus
Batista RM, Mao E, Sussman AB, Mahoney N, Min J.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Regulation of the Credit Card Market in Turkey [PDF]

The rapid growth in Turkish credit card market brought together new issues. Card holders and consumer unions complain about the high interest rates, economists complain about the default rates and banks complain about the amnesties.
Lerzan, Yildiz, Aysan, Ahmet Faruk
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Using Distribution Regression Difference‐in‐Differences to Evaluate the Effects of a Minimum Wage Introduction on the Distributions of Wages, Earnings, and Working Hours

Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We estimate the causal effects of the introduction of the minimum wage in Germany on the distributions of hourly wages, monthly earnings, and hours worked, combining rich large‐scale data sources. We compare linear and non‐linear versions of distribution regression difference‐in‐differences (DR‐DiD) and also estimate bivariate DR‐DiD.
Martin Biewen, Bernd Fitzenberger, Marian Rümmele   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inner layer security reinforcement for instant payment systems: a dual layer encryption-steganography evaluation in Brunei's digital payment context. [PDF]

Front Big Data
Sadikin ASBAH, Susanto H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Turning Down Mum's Cooking: The Ethics of Dietary Difference within Families

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although food ethicists have called for greater attention to the relational context of eating for over a decade, the context of ‘eating with family’ remains largely ignored. But the family is both a morally specific relational context and one within which many people do most of their eating.
Megan A. Dean
wiley   +1 more source