Electronic Money and Payments
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Session 1: Money and E-Money
Chair: Grahame Johnson
Money Is More than Memory
Authors: Maria Bigoni, Gabriele Camera (presenter) and Marco Casari
Discussant: John Duffy
On the Essentiality of E-Money
Authors: Jonathan Chiu and Tsz-Nga Wong (presenter)
Discussant: Charles Kahn
John Kuszczak Memorial Lecture
Chair: Lawrence Schembri
Keynote Address: Kenneth Rogoff
Session 2: Adoption
Chair: Scott Hendry
Consumer Payment Preferences, Network Externalities and Merchant Card Acceptance: An Empirical Investigation
Authors: David Bounie (presenter), Abel François and Leo Van Hove
Discussant: Jennifer Brown
Network Economies and Innovations: Lessons from the Transition to Check 21
Authors: Paul Bauer and Geoffrey Gerdes (presenter)
Discussant: Andrew Ching
Session 3: Digital Currency (1)
Chair: Stephen Murchison
On the Value of Virtual Currencies
Authors: Maarten van Oordt (presenter) and Wilko Bolt
Discussant: Rodney Garratt
Adoption and Use of Virtual Currencies by U.S. Consumers
Authors: Scott Schuh (presenter) and Oz Shy
Discussant: Hanna Halaburda
Session 4: Digital Currency (2)
Chair: Timothy Lane
A Bitcoin Standard: Lessons from the Gold Standard
Author/presenter: Warren Weber
Discussant: Michael Bordo
The Macroeconomics of Central Bank-Issued Digital Currency
Authors: John Barrdear (presenter) and Michael Kumhof
Discussant: Amy Sun
Session 5: Do We Still Need Cash?
Chair: Richard Wall
Cash Management in Village Thailand: Positive and Normative Implications
Authors: Fernando Alvarez, Anan Pawasutipaisit, and Robert Townsend (presenter)
Discussant: Victor Aquirregabiria
The Role of Card Acceptance in the Transaction Demand for Money
Authors: Kim Huynh (presenter), Philipp Schmidt-Dengler and Helmut Stix
Discussant: Francisco Ruge-Murcia
Panel Discussion
Chair: Richard Wall
Moderator: Carolyn Wilkins
Panelists: David Andolfatto, Ritu Khanna, Linda Mantia and Robert Townsend