Household finance

JY Campbell - The journal of finance, 2006‏ - Wiley Online Library
The study of household finance is challenging because household behavior is difficult to
measure, and households face constraints not captured by textbook models. Evidence on …

Household finance: An emerging field

L Guiso, P Sodini - Handbook of the Economics of Finance, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Household finance—the normative and positive study of how households use financial
markets to achieve their objectives—has gained a lot of attention over the past decade and …

Household finance

F Gomes, M Haliassos, T Ramadorai - Journal of Economic Literature, 2021‏ - aeaweb.org
Household financial decisions are complex, interdependent, and heterogeneous, and
central to the functioning of the financial system. We present an overview of the rapidly …

Borrowing on the wrong credit card? Evidence from Mexico

A Ponce, E Seira, G Zamarripa - American Economic Review, 2017‏ - aeaweb.org
We establish new facts about the way consumers allocate debt among their credit cards
using data for a representative sample of cardholders in Mexico. We find that relative prices …

Why are (some) consumers (finally) writing fewer checks? The role of payment characteristics

S Schuh, J Stavins - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Since the mid-1990s, the US payment system has undergone a transformation featuring a
significant decline in the use of paper checks that is quite uneven across consumers and not …

Credit card debt puzzles and debt revolvers for self control

CC Bertaut, M Haliassos, M Reiter - Review of Finance, 2009‏ - academic.oup.com
Most US credit card holders revolve high-interest debt, often with substantial liquid and
retirement assets. We model separation of accounting from shop** allowed by credit …

[PDF][PDF] Household debt over the life cycle

T Yilmazer, SA DeVaney - FINANCIAL SERVICES REVIEW …, 2005‏ - researchgate.net
Using data from the 2001 Survey of Consumer Finances, this study examines how the
holding of types and amounts of household debt changes over the life cycle. The results …

Credit card redlining

E Cohen-Cole - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011‏ - direct.mit.edu
This paper evaluates the presence of racial disparities in the issuance of consumer credit.
Using a database of credit histories, I link location-based information on race with individual …

How consumers pay: Adoption and use of payments

S Schuh, J Stavins - 2012‏ - econstor.eu
Using data from a nationally representative survey on consumer payment behavior, we
estimate Heckman two-stage regressions on the adoption and use of seven different …

New evidence on credit card borrowing and repayment patterns

SS Jiang, LF Dunn - Economic Inquiry, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
A new dataset allows researchers to examine patterns of credit card use for both borrowing
and payoff. This article addresses changes in these behaviors for different birth cohorts by …