The Home Economics of E-Money: Velocity, Cash Management, and Discount Rates of M-Pesa Users
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The Home Economics of E-Money: Velocity, Cash Management, and Discount Rates of M-Pesa Users.
M-Pesa, a service operated by the mobile phone network Safaricom in Kenya, allows users to deposit money onto their telephone handsets, transfer e-money to another user with a simple text message, and withdraw cash at one of thousands of outlets throughout the country. The system is safer, cheaper, and far faster than the money transfer systems that it replaced. Although only five years old, M-...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Review
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0002-8282
DOI: 10.1257/aer.103.3.369