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Cash Use in Australia: New Survey Evidence

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  • John Bagnall

    (Reserve Bank of Australia)

  • Darren Flood

    (Reserve Bank of Australia)

Abstract

The Reserve Bank has completed its second study of consumers' use of payment instruments. The study indicates that cash remains the most common form of payment by consumers. It is used extensively in situations where average payment values are low and where quick transaction times are preferred. Nonetheless, cash use as a share of total payments has declined, falling as a share of both the number and value of payments. Two important factors contributing to this decline are the substitution of cards for cash use, particularly for low-value payments, and the increasing adoption of online payments.

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  • John Bagnall & Darren Flood, 2011. "Cash Use in Australia: New Survey Evidence," RBA Bulletin (Print copy discontinued), Reserve Bank of Australia, pages 55-62, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:rba:rbabul:sep2011-07
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    10. Codruta Rusu & Helmut Stix, 2017. "Cash and card payments – recent results of the Austrian payment diary survey," Monetary Policy & the Economy, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian Central Bank), issue Q1/17, pages 1-35.
    11. Nicole Jonker & Anneke Kosse & Lola Hernández, 2012. "Cash usage in the Netherlands: How much, where, when, who and whenever one wants?," DNB Occasional Studies 1002, Netherlands Central Bank, Research Department.
    12. Carlos Arango & Yassine Bouhdaoui & David Bounie & Martina Eschelbach & Lola Hernández, 2013. "Cash Management and Payment Choices: A Simulation Model with International Comparisons," Staff Working Papers 13-53, Bank of Canada.
    13. Leon, Jorge & Rodríguez, Adolfo, 2012. "Costos de Transacciones en Costa Rica [Costs of transactions in Costa Rica]," MPRA Paper 45279, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2012.
    14. Cassie Davies & Mary-Alice Doyle & Chay Fisher & Samual Nightingale, 2016. "The Future of Cash," RBA Bulletin (Print copy discontinued), Reserve Bank of Australia, pages 43-52, December.
    15. Codruta Rusu & Helmut Stix, 2017. "Von Bar- und Kartenzahlern – Aktuelle Ergebnisse zur Zahlungsmittelnutzung in Österreich," Monetary Policy & the Economy, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian Central Bank), issue 1, pages 54-85.

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