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Truth on the Market Symposium on Interchange Fees:

By Todd Zywicki

Starting tomorrow (Tuesday Dec 8) and continuing Wednesday, Truth on the Market will be presenting a symposium on the topic of credit card interchange fees.  I?ll be participating along with a group of very distinguished economists and law professors.  This is one of the most interesting issues in consumer payments that I?ve looked at. Here?s the lineup:

The symposium will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, December 8 and 9.

• 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)
• James Van Dyke (Javelin Strategy & Research)
• Joshua Wright (George Mason University School of Law)
• Todd Zywicki (George Mason University School of Law)

Thanks to my friend Geoffrey Manne for organizing the program and inviting me to participate.  Check it out beginning tomorrow.

Full post as published by The Volokh Conspiracy on December 07, 2009 (boomark / email).