Author:
Brown Martin,Fengler Matthias R.,Huwyler Jonas,Koeniger Winfried,Lalive Rafael,Rohrkemper Robert
Abstract
AbstractMonitoring Consumption Switzerland is a public–private partnership between the University of St. Gallen and the payment companies Worldline and SIX that processes and publishes payment data on transactions in Switzerland processed by Wordline/SIX in real time. This paper provides background information on this novel source of data and presents their attributes, aggregation and granularity, and their interpretability. The paper presents several use cases that show the strengths of the data, and it alerts future users of the data to possible challenges. The paper also discusses the project's impact and provides an outlook.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Economics and Econometrics,Statistics and Probability
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