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The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston invites submissions for its second annual conference on consumer payment behavior. Agenda and papers from the 2005 conference can be viewed at:
http://www.bos.frb.org/news/conf/payments2005/index.htm.
Building on this inaugural effort, the Bank continues to solicit new and innovative research on all aspects of the consumer side of the U.S. payments system, especially investigations of the reasons why consumers choose one payment method over another. Researchers and practictioners from all sectors'academia, private industry, and the public sector'and all related disciplines ' economics, business, banking and finance, marketing, psychology, sociology, and others ' who are studying consumer payment behavior are encouraged to submit their research and analysis for consideration