This paper explores consequences of consumer education on prices and welfare in retail financial markets when some consumers are naive about shrouded add-on prices and firms try to exploit it. Allowing for different information and pricing strategies we show that education is unlikely to push...

This work analyses the impact of financial literacy and financial behaviour of individuals on the likelihood of over-indebtedness, controlling for socioeconomic factors, the type of mortgage and the event of a negative income shock. Using the data from the 2009 National Financial Capability...