Fees and Surcharging in automatic teller machine networks: Non-bank ATM providers versus large banks [report]

Elizabeth Croft, Barbara Spencer
2003 unpublished
This paper develops a spacial model of ATM networks to explore the implications for banks and non-banks of interchange fees, foreign fees and surcharges applied to transactions by customers at other than an own-bank ATM. Surcharging raises the price (foreign fee plus surcharge) paid by customers above the joint profit-maximizing level achieved by setting the interchange fee at marginal cost and not surcharging. Similar size banks would agree not to surcharge, but such an agreement is typically
more » ... ot possible between a bank and a non-bank. A high cost of teller transactions modifies the tendency towards high ATM fees.
doi:10.3386/w9883 fatcat:h6szf5iwjngfnec2trztfqr6o4