Cost Savings from Electronic Payments and Atms in Europe
FRB of Philadelphia Working Paper No. 03-16
29 Pages Posted: 18 Aug 2004
Date Written: August 2003
Abstract
Electronic payments are considerably cheaper than their paper-based alternatives. Similarly, ATMs are a more cost-efficient way to deliver certain depositor services than are branch offices. As the share of electronic payments in 12 European countries rose from 0.43 in 1987 to 0.79 in 1999 and ATMs expanded while the number of branch offices was constant, bank operating costs are estimated to be $32 billion lower than they otherwise might have been, saving 0.38% of the 12 nations' GDP. The authors' results are robust to the form of cost function estimated - composite, Fourier, or translog.
Keywords: Payments, ATM, bank costs, Europe
JEL Classification: E41, C53
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