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Why do card issuers charge proportional fees?
Shy, Oz (contributor); Wang, Zhu (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003788491
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Ad-valorem platform fees and efficient price discrimination
Wang, Zhu; Wright, Julian - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009669457
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Optimal pricing of flights and passengers at congested airports : the efficiency of atomistic charges
Silva, Hugo E.; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009720698
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Airline Pricing and Airport Charges in Hub-Spoke Networks with Congestion
Lin, Ming Hsin - 2011
This article investigates airline pricing and airport congestion charges in hub-spoke networks. When a public hub … airport and two public spoke (local) airports independently levy their charges, airlines will eventually set a ticket price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119810
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How Changes in Payment Card Interchange Fees Affect Consumers Fees and Merchant Prices : An Economic Analysis with Applications to the European Union
Evans, David S. - 2011
A number of jurisdictions are considering imposing price caps on the interchange fees that card issuers receive from merchant acquirers when cardholders pay with their cards. Several have already done so. This paper examines the net impact of these price caps on consumers. The economics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122900
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Why Do Platforms Charge Proportional Fees? Commitment and Seller Participation
Muthers, Johannes - 2013
If an intermediary offers sellers a platform to reach consumers, he may face a hold-up problem: sellers suspect that the intermediary will enter their respective market, competing with them. As sellers fear that they cannot recoup their sunk costs of entry, they do not join the platform. Hence,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088269
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Optimal Pricing of Flights and Passengers at Congested Airports : The Efficiency of Atomistic Charges
Silva, Hugo E - 2013
This paper investigates optimal airport pricing when airlines provide imperfect substitutes products, and make decisions on capacity, scheduling and pricing. We show that the first-best toll per flight may be higher than the simple market-shares formula that were recently derived for Cournot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091922
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Pricing in Retail Payment Systems : A Public Policy Perspective on Pricing of Payment Cards
Bolt, Wilko - 2012
The provision of retail payment services is complex with many participants engaging in a series of interrelated bilateral transactions and subject to large economies of scale and scope along with strong adoption, usage and network externalities. This makes sound public policy difficult. We focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113006
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Tuition Fees, as User Prices, and Private Incentives
Economides, George - 2016
This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of introducing tuition fees for public education services into a tax system with income and consumption taxes. The setup is a neoclassical growth model where agents differ in capital holdings. We show that the introduction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985448
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Excessive Competition for Headline Prices
Inderst, Roman - 2016
When firms' shrouding of charges, as in Gabaix and Laibson (2006), meets with consumers' salient thinking, as in … quality beyond what would be cost efficient. As more intense shopping leads to a greater “pass through” of shrouded charges … policy. While in our model all consumers are potential victims of salient thinking and shrouded charges, salient thinking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992314