The Dawn of the Plastic Jungle: The Introduction of the Credit Card in Europe and North America, 1950-1975
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Keywords
Credit card; payments; cashless; two sided markets; payment tolls; Bank of America; Barclays; Banamex; Bancomer; Banco de Bilbao; British banks; Mexican banks; Spanish banks;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E51 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
- L5 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy
- N1 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations
- N2 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions
- N8 - Economic History - - Micro-Business History
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2016-05-21 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-HIS-2016-05-21 (Business, Economic & Financial History)
- NEP-INO-2016-05-21 (Innovation)
- NEP-PAY-2016-05-21 (Payment Systems & Financial Technology)
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