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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Jul 2021

Digital Payments and Consumption: Evidence from the 2016 Demonetization in India

Pulak GHOSH, Jing LI, Tianyue RUAN, Sumit AGARWAL
We study how consumer spending responds to digital payments, using the differential switch to digital payments across consumers induced by the sudden 2016 Indian Demonetization for identification. Usage of digital payments rose by 3.38 percentage points and monthly spending increased by 3% for an ad...
Keywords: digital payments, financial technology, Consumption, India, Demonetization
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Annual Conference

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Economic Transformation of Asia, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2019

Digital Payments Induce Over-Spending: Evidence from the 2016 Demonetization in India

Sumit AGARWAL, Pulak GHOSH, Jing LI, Tianyue RUAN
We examine the impact of digital payments on consumer spending by exploiting a forced switch to digital payments induced by the 2016 Indian Demonetization. This policy resulted in a 86% decline in the cash that could be used for spending transactions and led cash-dependent consumers to adopt digital...
Keywords: digital payments, overspending, Demonetization, India
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