Holthausen, Cornelia; Rochet, Jean-Charles - In: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 38 (2006) 7, pp. 1797-1818
This paper studies the pricing of large-value payment systems and its influence on the way commercial banks route their payments. It is shown that the optimal pricing scheme for a public monopoly system involves quantity discounts in the form of a decreasing marginal fee. This is also true when...