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Adequacy of prenatal care in the state of Rio de Janeiro according to the type of childbirth funding. [PDF]

open access: yesRev Saude Publica
Domingues RMSM   +5 more
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The Economics of Payment Card Fee Structure: What Drives Payment Card Rewards? [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
This paper investigates potential market forces that cause payment card rewards even when providing payment card rewards is not the most efficient. Three factors - oligopolistic merchants, output-maximizing card networks, and the merchant's inability to set different prices across payment methods - may potentially explain the prevalence of payment card
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Optimal card payment systems

European Economic Review, 2001
Abstract This paper presents a model of a card payment system to address the pricing and rules that govern such systems. It evaluates the social optimality of privately set interchange fees and the adoption of a rule by payment systems to prevent merchants surcharging for card transactions using two extremes of merchant pricing—monopolistic pricing ...
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The Economics of Payment Card Fee Structure: Policy Considerations of Payment Card Rewards [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
This paper considers possible public policies that could improve efficiency and welfare distribution in the U.S. retail payments industry. Mainly, four options, i) encouraging competition; ii) allowing merchants to surcharge; iii) regulating merchant fees; and iv) regulating payment card rewards, are discussed, but each option has advantages and ...
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Electronic payments using payment cards [PDF]

open access: possible, 2009
A method of making a payment uses a mobile communication device (1) and a payment card (2), both the mobile communication device (1) and the payment card (2) being provided with a respective near field communication unit (11, 21) and at least the mobile communication device (1) being provided with an input unit (12) for inputting data.
Waaij, B.D. van der   +8 more
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17. Payment cards

2017
This chapter focuses on the use of payment cards in commercial transactions. Contactless cards are becoming increasing popular and account for 49 per cent of all cards in issue. Contactless payment is made through the tap of a card on (or by waiving it over) a reader, without requiring a personal identification number or signature.
MA Clarke   +5 more
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Determinants of card payments

Applied Economics, 2015
ABSTRACTAlthough the development of the card payment system allows for lowering the costs of money circulation and thereby leads to significant economic gains, relatively small amount of research has been dedicated to the analysis of the determinants of this development.
Łukasz Goczek, Bartosz Witkowski
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