Card payment market and retail prices : an empirical analysis of the effects of the interchange fee on price levels in Spain
Shabgard, Bita

Publicación: Bellaterra Departament Economia Aplicada 2020
Descripción: 35 pag.
Resumen: The present paper examines how changes in the interchange fee affect retail prices. The interchange fee is a payment from the merchant's bank (called the acquirer) to the cardholder's bank (called the issuer) per card transaction. This is a fundamental feethat affects the card payment usage by a cardholder and the card acceptance by a merchant. By considering the two sidedness nature of this market, the paper investigates the short-and long-run relationships between the interchange fee and retail prices in Spain from the first quarter of 2008 to the fourth quarter of 2019. The paper finds that in the long-run, retail prices decrease as a result of declining interchange fee as had been expected by regulatory authorities.
Nota: This collection includes a selection of research by students of the PhD Program in Applied Economics (UAB) and the Master of Applied Research in Economics and Business (MAREB) - specialization in Applied Economics.
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Lengua: Anglès
Colección: Working papers GEAR ; 2020-07
Documento: Working paper
Materia: Interchange fee regulation ; Payment card ; Retail prices ; Two-sided market



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