P ricing in debit and credit card schemes * Julian Wright
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This paper presents a model of a debit or credit card payment scheme, providing a simple determination of the socially optimal structure of fees between those charged to cardholders and those charged to merchants. 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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