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The Tsunami: Measures of Contagion in the 2007–2008 Credit Crunch
Dungey, Mardi - In: CESifo Forum 09 (2008) 4, pp. 33-43
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Finanzkrise: die Rolle der Rechnungslegung
Gassen, Joachim - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 1, pp. 83-95
Eine der wesentlichen Gründe für das Entstehen und den Verlauf der Finanzkrise dürfte in der Intransparenz moderner Kapitalmärkte liegen. Diese Intransparenz begünstigt einerseits das Entstehen von spekulativen Blasen. Andererseits ist die mangelnde Transparenz wohl wesentlich für die...
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Rationale Marktübertreibungen im Zusammenhang der aktuellen Finanzmarktkrise
Klug, Thorsten; Locarek-Junge, Hermann; Mihm, Max - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 1, pp. 25-39
Der Untersuchungsgegenstand der Arbeit ist die Darstellung der wichtigsten Anlegermotive bei Marktübertreibungen. Es wird dabei auf Konzepte der verhaltensorientierten Kapitalmarktforschung zurückgegriffen. Basierend auf den gewonnenen Erkenntnissen werden Lösungsansätze zur Vermeidung von...
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Costly contracts and consumer credit
Livshits, Igor; MacGee, James; Tertilt, Michèle - 2011
Financial innovations are a common explanation of the rise in consumer credit and bankruptcies. To evaluate this story, we develop a simple model that incorporates two key frictions: asymmetric information about borrowers' risk of default and a fixed cost to create each contract offered by...
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Do consumers choose the right credit contracts?
Agarwal, Sumit; Chomsisengphet, Souphala; Liu, Chunlin; … - 2005
A number of studies have pointed to various mistakes that consumers might make in their consumption-saving and financial decisions. We utilize a unique market experiment conducted by a large U.S. bank to assess how systematic and costly such mistakes are in practice. The bank offered consumers a...
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Credit cards: Facts and theories
Bertaut, Carol C.; Haliassos, Michael - 2005
We use data from several waves of the Survey of Consumer Finances to document credit and debit card ownership and use across US demographic groups. We then present recent theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of credit and debit card behavior. Utilization rates of credit lines and...
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Consumption Smoothing and the Structure of Labor and Credit Markets
Bertola, Giuseppe; Koeniger, Winfried - 2004
Smoother labor incomes alleviate credit constraints by reducing workers' desire to borrow, and prospects of upward income mobility have smaller beneficial effects for currently poor workers when borrowing constraints are binding. These simple theoretical insights are consistent with the...
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Elasticities of demand for consumer credit
Karlan, Dean S.; Zinman, Jonathan - 2005
The price elasticity of demand for credit has major implications for macroeconomics, finance, and development. We … lender in South Africa and identifies demand curves that, while downward-sloping with respect to price, are flatter than … recent estimates in both developing and developed countries throughout most of a wide price range. However, demand becomes …
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Studie zu Dispozinsen / Ratenkrediten - Forschungsvorhaben zur Bereitstellung wissenschaftlicher Entscheidungshilfe für das Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verb...
Dick, Christian D.; Knobloch, Michael; Al-Umaray, Kerim S. - 2012
different legal rules, among such possible regulations are clear usury ceilings, prominent price disclosure in advertisements …, the obligation to inform the consumer in instances of excessive use of overdraft credit, rules to constrain other price …
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Credit card debt and payment use
Sprenger, Charles; Stavins, Joanna - 2008
Approximately half of credit card holders in the United States regularly carry unpaid credit card debt. These so-called revolvers exhibit payment behavior that differs from that of those who repay their entire credit card balance every month. Previous literature has focused on the adoption of...
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