Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92596 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 612
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes platforms and rejections in two-sided markets with network externalities, using the specific context of a payment card association. We study the cooperative antitrust determination of the interchange fee by member banks. We use a framework in which banks and merchants may have market power and consumers and merchants decide rationally on whether to buy or accept a payment card developed by Rochet and Tirole (2002). After drawing the welfare implications of a cooperative determination of the interchange fee and antitrust conducts, we describe in detail the factors affecting merchant resistance, compare cooperative and for-profit business models, and make a first cut in the analysis of system competition.
Subjects: 
competition
credit card
antitrust
JEL: 
L41
G23
L80
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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