This paper finds declining consumption expenditure between paydays, for a typical household in the working population of the UK. The magnitude is inconsistent with exponential time preference, but compatible with quasi-hyperbolic discounting. However, the hyperbolic model predicts that credit...

We study short-term changes in customer visits to retail outlets around the announcement of private equity (PE) acquisitions, using aggregated and anonymized mobile phone data covering approximately ten percent of all mobile devices in the United States. Given the monthly frequency of the data,...

We test the interest rate sensitivity of subprime credit card borrowers using a unique panel data set from a UK credit card company. We were given details of a randomized interest rate experiment conducted by the lender between October 2006 and January 2007. Access to such information is rare....