• Forecasting Cash Use in Legal and Illegal Activities 

      Humphrey, David B.; Kaloudis, Aris; Øwre, Grete (Working Papers;14/2000, Working paper, 2000)
      A general econometric model is developed and used to estimate the share of cash in consumer point-of-sale transactions in Norway over 1980-99. The share of cash fell from 90% during the 1980s to 50% in 1999, primarily due ...
    • Scale Economies, Bank Mergers, and Electronic Payments: A Spline Function Approach 

      Humphrey, David B.; Vale, Bent (Working Papers;5/2003, Working paper, 2003)
      This paper demonstrates the importance of using a flexible cost function specification when analyzing economies of scale and estimating the cost effect of banking mergers. The inflexibility of the translog cost function ...