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Previous research has found that perceptions of payment security affect consumers' use of payment instruments. We test whether the Target data breach in 2013 was associated with a change in consumers' perceptions of the security of credit cards and debit cards and with subsequent changes in...
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This essay takes a closer look at the U.S. payment card system, primarily debit cards. I examine the bundle of transactional services this and other types of payment cards provide. My goal, in large part, is to assess the competitive effects of the debit card interchange fee cap under the Durbin...
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A private ordering regime has developed within the payment card industry to define appropriate security practices and to monitor compliance by network participants. Market demands for trustworthy systems upon which consumers and merchants could rely provide incentives for security, which the...
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This Article argues that private ordering of fraud loss liability in payment card systems is likely to be socially … the least cost avoider of fraud, but on the most price inelastic party, even if that party has little or no ability to … merchant pricing in order to expose the costs of participating in a payment system – which include fraud costs – to market …
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Fraud." The conference included panels representing four key constituencies: Issuers, consumers, merchants/acquirers, and … networks. The panelists addressed the nature of payment card fraud in the 21st century. This paper summarizes the highlights …
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This paper considers the evidence for and against the reverse Robin Hood hypothesis. Under the “reverse Robin Hood” hypothesis, credit-card companies rob from the poor users of cash and give to the rich users of credit cards. But there are problems with this story. Indeed, the reverse Robin...
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