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0861 |aFB3-5/2021-8E-PDF
1001 |aFelt, Marie-Hélène, |eauthor.
24510|aDistributional effects of payment card pricing and merchant cost pass-through in Canada and the United States / |cby Marie-Hélène Felt, Fumiko Hayashi, Joanna Stavins and Angelika Welte.
264 1|aOttawa, Ontario, Canada : |bBank of Canada = Banque du Canada, |c2021.
264 4|c©2021
300 |a1 online resource (ii, 65 pages) : |billustrations, colour graphs.
336 |atext|btxt|2rdacontent
337 |acomputer|bc|2rdamedia
338 |aonline resource|bcr|2rdacarrier
4901 |aStaff working paper = |aDocument de travail du personnel, |x1701-9397 ; |v2021-8
500 |a"February 5, 2021."
500 |aCover title.
504 |aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 34-37).
5203 |a"Using data from Canada and the United States, we quantify consumers’ net pecuniary cost of using cash, credit cards, and debit cards for purchases across income cohorts. The net cost includes fees paid to financial institutions, rewards received from credit or debit card issuers, and the merchant cost of accepting payments that is passed on to consumers as higher retail prices. Even though credit cards are more expensive for merchants to accept compared with other payment methods, merchants typically do not differentiate prices at checkout, but instead pass through their costs to all consumers. As a result, credit card transactions are cross-subsidized by cheaper debit and cash payments. Card rewards and consumer fees paid to financial institutions are additional sources of cross-subsidies. We find that consumers in the lowest-income cohort pay the highest net pecuniary cost as a percentage of transaction value, while consumers in the highest-income cohort pay the lowest. This result is robust under various scenarios and assumptions, suggesting payment card pricing and merchant cost pass-through have regressive distributional effects in Canada and the United States"--Abstract, page ii.
650 0|aMerchants|xFees|zCanada.
650 0|aMerchants|xFees|zUnited States.
650 0|aCredit card fees|zCanada.
650 0|aCredit card fees|zUnited States.
650 6|aCommerçants|xHonoraires|zCanada.
650 6|aCommerçants|xHonoraires|zÉtats-Unis.
650 6|aCartes de crédit|xFrais|zCanada.
650 6|aCartes de crédit|xFrais|zÉtats-Unis.
7102 |aBank of Canada, |eissuing body.
830#0|aStaff working paper (Bank of Canada)|x1701-9397 ; |v2021-8.|w(CaOODSP)9.806221
85640|qPDF|s972 KB|uhttps://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2021/banque-bank-canada/FB3-5-2021-8-eng.pdf