Payday lenders advance small, short-term consumer loans through convenient storefront shops with limited underwriting. However, their fees convert to very high annualized rates of interest (APR's 390%). Using proprietary, store-level data, we find that a store's age importantly affects its...

The purpose of the research is to investigate young customers' irrational motives for retail borrowing. In addition, the intention to retail borrowing has also been examined. A convenience sampling method was employed. Self-administered and online survey questionnaires were distributed among 236...

Payment services offered by non-banks have flourished in recent years. The author provides an overview of the different kinds of non-bank retail payments schemes currently available in Canada, illustrating each by focusing on a specific example. Current players in the Canadian marketplace...

Payment services offered by non-banks have flourished in recent years. The author provides an overview of the different kinds of non-bank retail payments schemes currently available in Canada, illustrating each by focusing on a specific example. Current players in the Canadian marketplace...

We build on recent work analyzing consumers' ability to save by exploiting price dispersion in grocery stores. We show that store expensiveness is not universal but varies across consumers depending on the basket they consume. We incorporate this insight into a decomposition of price variance...

Financial innovations have resulted in an explosion in the number of so-called structured products being offered in the retail marketplace. To explain the complex structure of these hybrid debt securities, their prospectuses frequently employ numerical examples to illustrate the investment's...