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This paper examines regulator concerns that cash-paying consumers pay higher retail prices due to so-called ‘negative pricing' of credit cards that emerge when cardholders face few fees but instead receive discounts, rewards and other inducements for using credit cards for transactions. It is...

Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What Is Disruption? -- 3 Sources of Disruption -- 4 Predicting Disruption -- 5 Managing Disruption -- 6 Self-Disruption -- 7 Insuring against Disruption -- 8 Reexamining Disruption -- 9 Future of Disruption -- Notes -- Index