Payment Network Scale Economies, SEPA, and Cash Replacement
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PAYMENT NETWORK SCALE ECONOMIES , SEPA , AND CASH REPLACEMENT Wilko Bolt
The goal of SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) is to facilitate the emergence of a competitive, intra-European market by making cross-border payments as easy as domestic transactions. With crossborder inter-operability for electronic payments, card transactions will increasingly replace cash and checks for all types of payments. Using different methods, we estimate card and other payment network ...
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عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1077197