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cash or debit card discount, and even fewer were subjected to a credit card surcharge. Transactions at gasoline stations … were more likely to receive either cash discounts or credit card surcharges than transactions in other sectors. Larger …
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received a cash or debit card discount, and even fewer were subjected to a credit card surcharge. We attribute this finding in ….” Transactions at gasoline stations were more likely to receive either cash discounts or credit card surcharges than transactions in … other sectors. Transactions over $20 were significantly more likely to receive a cash discount. …
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need for monitoring spending and budgets. We demonstrate that both cash and the debit card are perceived as helpful in this … card more useful for monitoring their household finances than cash. Individuals differ in major respects, however. In … particular, low earners and the liquidity-constrained prefer cash as a monitoring and budgeting tool. Finally, we present …
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This paper solves an empirically parameterised model of life-cycle consumption which extends the precautionary savings models of Carroll (1997), and Deaton (1991), to allow for uncollaterized borrowing and default. In case households choose to default: (i) their access to credit markets is...
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This paper studies the characteristics of credit card holders in Malaysia and distinguishes between convenience users and revolvers. A Tobit model with binary selection and ordinal treatment is developed to accommodate the data feature that debts are incurred only among card holders and the...
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We have assembled a unique loan-level performance dataset for mortgages originated in the UK to study the differences in default likelihood between loans of varying borrower and loan characteristics. We can broadly confirm the relevance of most commonly known riskfactors and find that most...
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The Bank of Finland’s Finnish Payment Habits 2010 project predicts that Finnish payment habits will face substantial changes. The causes for these changes include: the standardisation and integration of European payment systems, development of payment services-related legislation and...
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In July 2000, the Taipei City Government launched an anti-poverty program, Taipei Family Development Accounts, which drew heavily on Sherraden¿s asset-based welfare theory, and was to provide matched savings accounts for low-income families in the City. This paper presents the ¿income to...
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This study specifically investigated the factors that influenced access by the poor and Blacks to credit in the segmented financial sector in South Africa, using income and expenditure survey data from 1995 and 2000. The study sheds light on the extent of financial sector deepening through...
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This paper assesses the level of households’ indebtedness and their financial stress using the results of a specific household survey conducted for this purpose in late 2002 - early 2003 by the Bank of Greece. The study also investigates the extent to which demographic and socio-economic...
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