Call for Papers
Economics of Payments VII

April 3-4, 2014, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Consumer Payments Research Center

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2013 to joanna.stavins@bos.frb.org

The payment landscape - retail, wholesale, and financial market payments - continues to evolve with the development of new technologies and with new regulations. Many areas of economics, including industrial organization, behavioral, monetary, and regulatory economics, have been applied to research on the economics of payments. This Economics of Payments conference continues the tradition of bringing together central bank, academic, government and industry economists to look at developments in payments and to think creatively about the future of payments.

Keynote speaker: Professor Robert Townsend, MIT

TOPICS: The organizers invite theoretical and applied papers on any payments-related topic, including but not limited to:
- Pricing of banking and payment services
- End-users' preferences and payment behavior
- Surveys and diaries on payments
- Competition across networks
- Dynamic models of payments
- Standard setting and industry market structure
- Effect of interchange fee regulation
- Distributional effects of private sector payment provision
- Utility of payments characteristics for end users: role of speed, security, cost
- Federal Reserve involvement in payment policy
- Wholesale payments
- Financial market infrastructure

A special session will focus on research related to payment diaries. This session builds on the Diary Workshop held at the Bank of Canada in October 2012. We invite papers or presentations that either use payment diary data or analyze issues related to diary survey methodology, sampling, data cleaning and handling, and other topics related to payment survey development and design.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Submit a PDF of a paper (preferred) or an extended abstract by November 1, 2013 to Joanna Stavins ( joanna.stavins@bos.frb.org). Authors of accepted papers will be notified by December 16, 2013. Please indicate whether you are submitting for the diary session.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: Oz Shy and Joanna Stavins, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston