Is financial literacy a substitute or complement for financial advice? In this paper we analyze the decision by consumers to seek financial advice in the form of credit counseling concerning their credit and debt. Credit counseling is an important component of the consumer credit sector for...

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 has become a field with its own identity, style, and agenda. In this chapter we review its evolution and most recent...

Building on cross-sectional data for Austrian high school students from fifth to twelfth grade, we investigate the correlations between socio-economic background variables and a comprehensive set of variables related to financial decision-making (i.e., financial knowledge, behavioral...

Improving financial literacy is high on the agenda of many governments. The purpose of this paper is to broaden the theoretical approach towards the concept of financial literacy. The paper introduces and integrates several consumer behavior and marketing concepts to better understand how they...

The purpose of this research is to analyze the influence of financial literacy and materialism on the savings decision of Indonesia’s generation Z. This study was motivated by the country’s agenda to achieve financial inclusion and develop human resources throughout the nation. We...