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Bob Chakravorti Presented Results from a Forthcoming World Bank Working Paper at the International Centre for Tax and Development

June 24, 2021
Bob presented preliminary findings from a forthcoming World Bank working paper to the DFS & Tax Working Group at the International Centre for Tax and Development.
Academic Journal

The Role of Interchange Fees in Two-Sided Markets: An Empirical Investigation on Payment Cards

April 21, 2016
Carbó, Chakravorti, and Rodriguez study the impact of lowering interchange fees on consumer and merchant adoption and usage along with bank revenues during a ten-year period in Spain using bank-level data. Using cutting-edge econometric techniques, they are able to test two-sided market model predictions about payment card pricing policies. They...
Working Paper

Why Do Banks Reward Their Customers To Use Their Credit Cards?

November 19, 2010
Using a unique administrative level dataset from a large and diverse U.S. financial institution, Agarwal, Chakravorti, and Lunn test the impact of rewards on credit card spending and debt. Specifically, we study the impact of cash-back rewards on individuals before and during their enrollment in the program. We find that...
Academic Journal

Platform Competition In Two-Sided Markets: The Case Of Payment Networks

January 01, 2002
Chakravorti and Roson construct a model to study competing payment networks, where networks offer differentiated products in terms of benefits to consumers and merchants. We study market equilibria for a variety of market structures: duopolistic competition and cartel, symmetric and asymmetric networks, and alternative assumptions about consumer preferences. We find...
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