Blog Symposium: Credit Card Interchange Fees at Truth on the Market

Here is the announcement:

With the publication of the recent GAO report on interchange fees (available at http://tiny.cc/5St6Y) as well as several bills pending in congress--to say nothing of an ongoing series in the New York Times (http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/business/series/card_game/index.html) and several lawsuits (including an antitrust class action under way right now in the Eastern District of New York), interchange fees and the regulation of credit cards are timely and important issues. 

The symposium will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, December 8 and 9, at the Truth on the Market blog, www.truthonthemarket.com

The symposium entries will be collected at a special link on the blog, http://www.truthonthemarket.com/category/interchange-and-credit-cards-symposium/ also available under the "blog symposia" heading on the right hand side of the blog homepage (the post announcing the upcoming symposium is currently available at this link).

Truth on the Market is written by a group of law professors and academic economists and focuses on the law and economics of antitrust in particular and the regulation of markets more generally.

This symposium, like our past symposia, will be authored primarily by guest bloggers.  The all-star line-up for this symposium includes:

• Omri Ben-Shahar (University of Chicago Law School)
• Tom Brown (O’Melveney & Myers)
• Bob Chakravorti (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
• Richard Epstein (University of Chicago and NYU Law Schools)
• Joshua Gans (University of Melbourne Business School)
• Ron Mann (Columbia University Law School)
• Geoffrey Manne (International Center for Law & Economics and Lewis & Clark Law School)
• Tim Muris (George Mason University School of Law and O’Melveney & Myers)
• Allan Shampine (Compass/Lexecon)
• Bob Stillman (CRA International)
• Joshua Wright (George Mason University School of Law)
• Todd Zywicki (George Mason University School of Law)

Posts from the participants will appear throughout the day on Tuesday and Wednesday with a consistent back and forth among the participants and readers in the comments.  Please check in regularly for the most updated comments and discussion.