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Níl an t-ábhar seo ar fáil i nGaeilge.

Julian Wright

30 December 2009
WORKING PAPER SERIES - No. 1138
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Abstract
We build a model of credit card pricing that explicitly takes into account credit functionality. We show that a monopoly card network always selects an interchange fee that exceeds the level that maximizes consumer surplus. If regulators only care about consumer surplus, a conservative regulatory approach is to cap interchange fees based on retailers
JEL Code
E42 : Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics→Money and Interest Rates→Monetary Systems, Standards, Regimes, Government and the Monetary System, Payment Systems
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Retail payments: integration & innovation