Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58351
Year of Publication: 
2012
Publisher: 
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel, Hamburg
Abstract: 
This thesis strives to offer new insights in two main areas. First, in the well-researched domain of payment cards chapters 2 and 3 investigate an aspect that has hitherto been scantly examined, namely, the fact that merchant usage fees differ substantially among merchant sectors. Additionally, if payment card networks are able to patronize certain sectors, which ones are they likely to pick? Second, chapter 4 identifies the smart (electricity) meter market as a multi-sided market and applies the insights found in the literature to better regulate a market-driven rollout of smart meters, the current objective in several countries and states, such as Germany.
Subjects: 
two-sided markets
payment cards
smart meter
regulation
platform pricing
industrial organization
JEL: 
D53
G21
L11
L13
L4
L5
L94
Additional Information: 
zugl. Dissertation, EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Wiesbaden, 2012
Document Type: 
Doctoral Thesis
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