Banks impose a variety of account fees, and credit card issuers impose a variety of fees related to card usage. Using detailed data from a 2021 representative diary survey of US consumers, we investigate whether lower-income consumers and Black consumers are more likely to pay bank account or...

Banks impose a variety of account fees, and credit card issuers impose a variety of fees related to card usage. Using detailed data from a 2021 representative diary survey of US consumers, we investigate whether lower-income consumers and Black consumers are more likely to pay bank account or...

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...

Payment networks typically differentiate their interchange fees (IFs) by setting a variety of sector-specific IFs for the same payment card. While the previous literature on IFs has focussed on the optimal level of IFs, this paper addresses the optimal structure of IFs, i.e. whether or not IF...

In this study, a multi-party payment card network model is constructed to explore the determination of merchant and interchange fees, thereby extending Langlet's (2009) observation of unitary payment systems. The focus of this analysis was on the impact of consumer price elasticity, the relative...

In this paper we empirically address the issue of whether reductions in card payment interchange fees have a significant impact on prices paid by consumers. The answer to this question is at the core of most competition policy cases and regulations that have been applied to card payment markets....

There are in general three types of fees used by platforms: the fixed membership fee, transaction fee and proportional fee. In real-life, all three fees are used by different platforms. Often, the fee charged by the market maker is a combination of the fixed, transaction and proportional fees....

The active mutual fund equilibrium model developed by Berk and Green (2004) predicts that fees should not matter for investors’ mutual fund choices. We examine how fees influence demand for active mutual funds by analyzing time variation in funds’ fees. Since investors should not pay "alpha...

Funds of funds are an increasingly popular avenue for hedge fund investment. Despite the increasing interest in hedge funds as an alternative asset class, the high degree of fund specific risk and the lack of transparency may give fiduciaries pause. In addition, many of the most attractive hedge...