TY  - UNPD
A1  - Camera, Gabriele
A1  - Casari, Marco
A1  - Bortolotti, Stefania
T1  - An experiment on retail payments systems : [version 5 may 2014]
T2  - SAFE working paper series ; No. 49
N2  - We study the behavioral underpinnings of adopting cash versus electronic payments in retail transactions. A novel theoretical and experimental framework is developed to primarily assess the impact of sellers’ service fees and buyers’ rewards from using electronic payments. Buyers and sellers face a coordination problem, independently choosing a payment method before trading. In the experiment, sellers readily adopt electronic payments but buyers do not. Eliminating service fees or introducing rewards significantly boosts the adoption of electronic payments. Hence, buyers’ incentives play a pivotal role in the diffusion of electronic payments but monetary incentives cannot fully explain their adoption choices. Findings from this experiment complement empirical findings based on surveys and field data.
T3  - SAFE working paper - 49 
KW  - money
KW  - coordination
KW  - pricing
KW  - transactions
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/34177
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-341771
UR  - http://ssrn.com/abstract=2433414
IS  - version 5 may 2014
PB  - SAFE
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -