Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/185959 
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Year of Publication: 
2010
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[Journal:] Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics [ISSN:] 2235-6282 [Volume:] 146 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2010 [Pages:] 507-532
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
In 2004 the Swiss Competition Commission (ComCo) opened an investigation concerning multilateral agreed interchange fees in the Swiss credit card market which ended with an amicable settlement. The most important element of this amicable settlement consists in the limitation of the interchange fee to the actual network costs of the issuers. In this paper I discuss whether there was a market failure in the Swiss credit card market which justified the intervention by ComCo and whether the remedies imposed in the amicable settlement eliminated the alleged market failure.
Subjects: 
antitrust
payment systems
interchange fees
two-sided markets
JEL: 
L4
G2
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