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Financial Technology Adoption: Network Externalities of Cashless Payments in Mexico.

Do coordination failures constrain financial technology adoption? Exploiting the Mexican government's rollout of 1 million debit cards to poor households from 2009 to 2012, I examine responses on both sides of the market and find important spillovers and distributional impacts. On the supply side, s...

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Published in:American Economic Review Vol. 114; no. 11; pp. 3469 - 3513
Main Author: Higgins, Sean
Format: Article
Published: American Economic Association Nov2024
Subjects:
Supply & demand
Innovation adoption
Financial technology
Point-of-sale systems
Electronic funds transfers
Debit cards
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