This paper provides an overview of retail payments security and assesses the impact of the new strong customer authentication (SCA) requirements introduced by the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) on the security of remote payments. For each payment instrument, we construct aggregate...

To operate successfully in this credit card industry, various kinds of credit cards are offered to distinct user groups. This empirical study is conducted in Malaysia, and it examines the features of different types of credit card available. By using descriptive and one-way ANOVA test, this...

The CARD Act restricts consumer credit card issuers’ ability to raise interest rates. We examine whether the Act influences the degree to which an issuer adjusts offered interest rates in response to changes in interest rates offered by other lenders—the price responsiveness. Using small...

We analyze the impact of monetary policy on consumer spending using credit card data. Because of their high frequency, these data improve identification and allow for a precise characterization of the transmission lags. We find that shocks to short-term interest rates affect spending much more...

To identify the individual in the educational system, an individual must have an ID card. Not only in educational institutes is also a necessary factor for identification in every field. In an educational institute, the ID card is used to identify the students and employees. Keep in mind that it...

This paper studies credit card repayment behavior in terms of exact repayment dates and provides causal explanation from inattention for the first time. Using data from a large commercial bank in Asia, we find that 70% of repayments are made before the due date, 9% on time, and 21% overdue. We...

Reward programs are often a prominent feature of credit cards. Collaborating with a leading bank in China, I combine proprietary consumer-level data and a survey to study the causal effect of rewards on consumption and consumers' subjective expectations. I leverage a fuzzy regression...

This paper establishes how the classical facts characterizing a failure of competition in credit card lending during the 1980s are largely reversed in the decades following. Between 1990 and 2008 lenders' mark-ups decreased by 35 percent, profits shrank by 32 percent relative the average in...

Abstract: This paper presents two case studies demonstrating significant economic consequences associated with consumers’ suboptimal approaches to paying down credit card debt. The approaches considered are the suboptimal “snowball” and “balance-matching” approaches, along with the...