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Consumer Use of Multiple Payment Methods

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The paper investigates the degree to which buyers choose to diversify their use of payment methods for in-person purchases. Some buyers use only one payment instrument. Others combine the use of mostly cash, credit, debit cards, and a few paper checks and prepaid cards. To each survey respondent, I apply three concentration measures over the use of payment instruments. Results show that the degree of consumers' payment concentration exhibits almost no correlation with consumer demographics, payment volume, or aggregate value.

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  • Oz Shy, 2019. "Consumer Use of Multiple Payment Methods," FRB Atlanta Working Paper 2019-19, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedawp:2019-19
    DOI: 10.29338/wp2019-19
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    Keywords

    multiple payment methods; consumer payment choice; payment instruments; in-person purchases; concentration measures;
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    JEL classification:

    • D9 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics
    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System

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