Perfect surcharging and the tourist test interchange fee
Two widely discussed pricing benchmarks in the literature on payment card markets are the "tourist test" interchange fee (Rochet and Tirole, forthcoming), which internalizes usage externalities in payment card markets, and "perfect surcharging" by merchants (Rochet and Tirole, 2002). This paper shows that these benchmarks are allocatively equivalent. Implications for the regulatory treatment of interchange fees and no-surcharge rules are discussed.
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2011
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Authors: | Zenger, Hans |
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Journal of Banking & Finance. - Elsevier, ISSN 0378-4266. - Vol. 35.2011, 10, p. 2544-2546
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | Interchange fees Two-sided markets Surcharging Tourist test |
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