The COVID-19 outbreak and the far-reaching lockdown measures are having direct and indirect effects on complex social domains, including opportunities for crime offline and …
The optimal design of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) is analyzed in an environment where agents sort into cash, CBDC, and bank deposits according to their preferences over …
Rates of street crime have dropped substantially over the past several decades, but important nuances of this decline are underappreciated and the reasons for it remain …
“A brilliant and lucid new book”(John Lanchester, New York Times Magazine) about why paper money and digital currencies lie at the heart of many of the world's most difficult …
Abstract The Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) database, launched by the World Bank in 2011, provides comparable indicators showing how people around the world save …
In 2011 the World Bank—with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation— launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive data set on how …
Purpose After analyzing these uncountable benefits of digital or cashless payment, many European countries like Sweden, Finland and Canada has been trying to convert their …
JB Carr, A Packham - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
In this paper, we study the effects of the timing of nutritional aid disbursement on crime, using two main sources of variation:(a) a policy change in Illinois that substantially increased …
A Islam, S Muzi, JL Rodriguez Meza - Small Business Economics, 2018 - Springer
Private investment can be an important engine of economic growth in East African countries that are plagued with adverse economic conditions, despite recent growth rates. Against this …