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How People Pay Each Other: Data, Theory, and Calibrations

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  • Claire Greene
  • Brian Prescott
  • Oz Shy

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Using a representative sample of the U.S. adult population, we analyze which payment methods consumers use to pay other consumers (p2p) and how these choices depend on transaction and demographic characteristics. We additionally construct a random matching model of consumers with diverse preferences over the use of different payment methods for p2p payments. The random matching model is calibrated to the share of p2p payments made with cash, paper check, and electronic technologies observed from 2015 to 2019. We find about two thirds of consumers have a first p2p payment preference of cash. The remaining one third rank checks first. Approximately 93 percent of consumers rank electronic technologies second. Our empirical analysis finds that the most significant factors in determining the payment method used are the transaction value and the age and education of the payer.

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  • Claire Greene & Brian Prescott & Oz Shy, 2021. "How People Pay Each Other: Data, Theory, and Calibrations," FRB Atlanta Working Paper 2021-11, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedawp:90081
    DOI: 10.29338/wp2021-11
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    1. Greene, Claire & Prescott, Brian & Shy, Oz, 2022. "How people pay each other: Data, theory, and calibrations," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 96(C).

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    Keywords

    consumer payment choice; person-to-person payments; electronic payments; mixed logit; machine learning; random matching;
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    • 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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