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Pricing And Regulation In Multi-sided Markets - Implications for Payment Card Networks And Smart Metering

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  • Uhlenbrock, Jens

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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.

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  • Uhlenbrock, Jens, 2012. "Pricing And Regulation In Multi-sided Markets - Implications for Payment Card Networks And Smart Metering," EconStor Theses, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, number 58351, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:esthes:58351
    Note: zugl. Dissertation, EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Wiesbaden, 2012
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    Keywords

    two-sided markets; payment cards; smart meter; regulation; platform pricing; industrial organization;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D53 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Financial Markets
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
    • L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
    • L4 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies
    • L5 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy
    • L94 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Electric Utilities

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