This case, written on the basis of published sources, concerns the decision facing management of Starbucks Canada about how to implement mobile payments. While Starbucks has currently been using a mobile app to accept payments through their proprietary Starbucks card, rival Tim Hortons has recently introduced a more advanced mobile payments solution and the company now has to consider its next ...

We study two dynamic models of payments systems. The ...rst is a deterministic model with spatial separation where we consider alternative payments systems institutions and their implications for allocation and welfare. A payments system with period-by-period settlement in outside money improves on decentralized exchange using currency by reducing average cash balances and the average holding p...

Diverse provider payment systems create incentives that affect the quantity and quality of health care services provided. Payments can be based on provider characteristics, which tend to minimize incentives for quality and quantity. Or payments can be based on quantities of services provided and patient characteristics, which provide stronger incentives for quality and quantity. Payments method...

Mobile payment refers to the use of mobile devices to conduct payment transactions. Users can use mobile devices for remote and proximity payments; moreover, they can purchase digital contents and physical goods and services. It offers an alternative payment method for consumers. However, there are relative low adoption rates in this payment method. This research aims to identify and explore ke...

The ...rst setup we study is a deterministic model with spatial separation where we consider alternative payments systems institutions and their implications for allocation and welfare. A payments system with period-by-period settlement in outside money improves on decentralized exchange. An e¢cient allocation is supported by a payments system where settlement is not imposed. In the second mode...

This contribution investigates severance payments for dismissed employees in Germany. Particularly, it responds to the following questions: Who receives severance payments? By which characteristics is the level of severance payments determined? Is overcompensation to be considered a relevant issue? Hereby, individual and collective dismissals are distinguished. This is the first study on this i...

This Briefing article will provide an overview of the mobile payments landscape in Japan and South Korea and discuss developments in the United States. Though each country is unique in its progression toward adoption, challenges encountered are similar. Navigating the myriad relationships among stakeholders such as carriers, financial institutions, card issuers, handset manufacturers, etc., whi...

We evaluated the intention, implementation, and impact of Costa Rica's program of payments for environmental services (PSA), which was established in the late 1990s. Payments are given to private landowners who own land in forest areas in recognition of the ecosystem services their land provides. To characterize the distribution of PSA in Costa Rica, we combined remote sensing with geographic i...

Conflict and competition often impose costs on both winners and losers, and conflicting parties may prefer to resolve the dispute before it occurs. The equilibrium of a conflict game with sidepayments predicts that with binding offers, proposers make and responders accept sidepayments, generating settlements that strongly favor proposers. When side-payments are nonbinding, proposers offer nothi...

The era of mobile commerce is coming, and mobile payments will become an important channel for conducting transactions, especially concerning mobile commerce. However, we are still in the early days for global adoption of mobile payments. This research explores consumers’ trust building in the consumer learning process and its effect on consumers’ behavioral intention toward mobile payments. Re...