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Consumer protection in financial markets in the form of information disclosure is high on governments agendas, despite the fact that the empirical evidence on its effectiveness is scarce. To measure the impact of Truth-in-Lending-Act-type disclosures on default and indebtedness, as well as of...
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We study how consumers allocate debt across credit cards they already hold using new data on credit card activity for a … representative sample of consumers with two homogeneous cards in Mexico. We find that relative prices are a very weak predictor of … the allocation of debt, purchases, and payments. On average, consumers pay 31% above their minimum financing cost …
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Consumer protection in financial markets in the form of information disclosure is high on governments agendas, espite the fact that the empirical evidence on its effectiveness is scarce. To measure the impact of Truth-in-Lending-Act-type disclosures on default and indebtedness, as well as of...
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We study how consumers allocate debt across credit cards they already hold using new data on credit card activity for a … representative sample of consumers with two homogeneous cards in Mexico. We find that relative prices are a very weak predictor of … the allocation of debt, purchases, and payments. On average, consumers pay 31% above their minimum financing cost …
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We study the bancarization of marginal borrowers using credit cards and document that this process is difficult: default risk is substantial, returns heterogeneous, and account closings common. We also take advantage of a randomized control trial that varied interest rates and minimum payments...
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Consumer protection in financial markets in the form of information disclosure is high on governments agendas, despite the fact that the empirical evidence on its effectiveness is scarce. To measure the impact of Truth-in-Lending-Act-type disclosures on default and indebtedness, as well as of...
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We study how consumers allocate debt across credit cards they already hold using new data on credit card activity for a … representative sample of consumers with two homogeneous cards in Mexico. We find that relative prices are a very weak predictor of … the allocation of debt, purchases, and payments. On average, consumers pay 31% above their minimum financing cost …
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