On December 8 and 9, 2009, ICLE sponsored a blog symposium at Truth on the Market on "The Law and Economics of Interchange Fees and Credit Card Markets."  We had an all-star roster of contributors and a set of provocative posts and lively comments.  While the "live" blog symposium can be found at the "credit card symposium" link at the blog (http://www.truthonthemarket.com/category/interchange-and-credit-cards-symposium/), we have produced a pdf e-book of the symposium including all of the posts and comments.  It is our hope that the e-book will be a valuable off-line resource for policy makers, academics, students and other interested folks alike.

Contributors to the symposium include:

• 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 Law School
• Joshua Gans | University of Melbourne Business School
• Ronald Mann | Columbia University Law School
• Geoffrey Manne | Lewis & Clark Law School and ICLE
• Tim Muris | George Mason University School of Law and O’Melveney & Myers
• Allan Shampine | Compass/Lexecon
• Bob Stillman | CRA International
• Jim Van Dyke | Javelin Strategy & Research
• Joshua Wright | George Mason University School of Law
• Todd Zywicki | George Mason University School of Law

The pdf is available here:

ICLE/Truth on the Market Blog Symposium on The Law and Economics of Interchange Fees and Credit Card Markets (pdf)

The linked e-book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.