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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"payment method"”.
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Assessing the Viability of Cryptocurrency as a Payment Method: A Consumer Perspective
… divided into two cohorts: active cryptocurrency payment users (Cohort 1, n = 2) and cryptocurrency holders who did not use cryptocurrencies for payments (Cohort 2, n = 6). Data were analyzed using the Moustakas phenomenological approach to identify patterns in participant experiences. The …
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The Influence of Payment Method: Do Consumers Pay More with Mobile Payment?
<p>The introduction of new payment methods has resulted in one of the most significant changes in the way we consume goods and services. In this paper, I present results of a field and a laboratory experiment designed to determine the effect of payment method (cash vs. mobile payment) on spending, …
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Principal-agent, risk, and market structure effects on health maintenance organization choice of payment method for primary care physicians
… for fee-for-service versus capitation based on payment risk characteristics. The analysis shows that capitation can be less risky than fee-for-service. A physician's ranking of payment methods may depend on her utility function, the health distribution of HMO members, and the relationship …
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Considerations of return on capital investment and payment on progress in the defense shipbuilding industry
… the impact of return on investment, progress payments, and cash flow in the shipbuilding industry. Analysis is devoted to the progress payment method recommended by the Navy Task Group to Study Shipbuilding Progress Payments. An examination is made of both Government profit policy and contract …
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Factors contributing to clinical output among general practitioners and family physicians
… and quantify the effects of gender, age, payment method, and practice size on clinical output of GP/FPs. While the identification of these effects has been undertaken previously, this study is the first attempt to quantify the proportion of variance in physician output explained by this …
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Determinants and financial consequences of the method of payment in corporate acquisitions
… is known about how bidders or targets choose the method of payment in takeovers. Further, several empirical studies report that shareholders of both targets and bidders earn higher returns in cash offers than in equity offers, but the reasons for this more favourable impact of cash offers have not …
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Constructing a web application for identification, detection and analysis of pattern based fraud
… preferable and more comfortable shopping method for buyers. As credit / debit cards became most common payment method for both online and regular purchases, the number of registered fraudulent transactions also increased significantly. Fraudsters seem to find back-doors in the security …
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Analysis of Acquirer Abnormal Returns in Listed European Real Estate M&A Transactions
… target country, real estate subsegment, and payment structure. The findings reveal significant discrepancies in bid premiums compared to NAV across subsegments, with industrial segment transactions exhibiting a significant average premium of 46% and retail segment transactions occurring at an …
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An Empirical Investigation on the Effect of Value-Added Services on Consumer Adoption of Mobile Payment in the UK
Mobile payment (m-payment) is an innovative payment method that uses technology to enable consumers to pay for goods and services using their mobile devices. As an emerging payment method, m-payment is marketed as a secure and convenient alternative to traditional payment methods. Despite the …
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Mobile-Payments in the U.S. and China
Mobile payment is a non-cash payment method that uses mobile terminals as a medium. The United States, the world’s most financially advanced country, has lagged far behind China in mobile payment innovation. The reasons for this phenomenon have not been well explained in past studies. This thesis …
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Gender Differences in Opioid Prescribing Patterns among Adults in the US
… Differences were seen in characteristics of age, payment method, and pain diagnoses between men and women receiving opioids from primary care physicians. Whereas in the emergency department, men and women were being prescribed opioids at similar rates with the same predictors of demographics and …
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“What’s Pain Got To Do With It?”: How the Pain of Payment Influences Our Choices and Our Relationships
… a purchase. Consumers have so many different methods to pay for their transactions. Can the way a consumer chooses to pay change the likelihood that s/he make a purchase? And then post-purchase, can the payment method used to pay for a purchase influence how connected individuals feel to that …
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Penetration testing and vulnerability assessment on the Namibian inter-banking system: Namswitch
… Namibian context, the Bank of Namibia and the Payment Association of Namibia have discontinued the use of cheques as a payment method and provided Electronic Fund Transfers, cards, and electronic money as alternative payment methods. This means that the Namibian Payment System (NPS) now solely …
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Three essays on corporate acquisitions, bidders' liquidity, and monitoring
… private firms. Takeovers that use stock as the method of payment have significantly more improvement in liquidity than takeovers that use cash as the payment method. These results suggest that changes in firm characteristics provide the primary impetus for liquidity improvements following …
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“How have social grants in Zambia been paid and what lessons can be learnt from this?”
From the use of manual payment systems in the delivery of social cash transfers, most developing nations nowadays are resorting to electronic payment solutions to improve the timeliness and effective delivery of the social grants amidst programme scale ups. Like most countries in Sub-Saharan …
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Los medios de pago y su impacto en el comportamiento del comercio electrónico en Colombia
El comercio electrónico en Colombia desde sus inicios ha tenido una serie de cambios importantes que de alguna forma están ligados a la forma de pago. Esto sin duda a repercutido en lo que se tenía establecido que marca lo que se consideraba como comercio electrónico y comercio tradicional, pues de …
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The regulation of electronic funds transfer in Australia: an integrated multidisciplinary approach
… Transfer (‘EFT’) as a modern, global consumer payment method continues to expand rapidly by comparison with credit cards and traditional paper-based forms of payment. The core issue addressed in this thesis is a controversial one: the fair allocation of liability between the consumer and …
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Developing Microscopic Toll Plaza Model Using Paramics
… to one of the toll lanes, solely based on the payment method (manual, automatic coin machine, or electronic toll collection) and queue lengths at the toll lanes. For instance, if a vehicle is traveling in the leftmost lane and the rightmost toll lane has the shortest queue length, then the …