We study the mobile phone-based money transfer system in Kenya. Based on aggregate data, we estimate that the velocity with which units of e-money are transferred among users is approximately four times per month, and that the average number of transfers undergone by a unit of e-money between...

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to develop a theoretical model for consumer behavioral intention by integrating the technology acceptance model (TAM) and the theory of perceived risk, which is tested on the intended use of credit cards in Vietnam. Design/methodology/approach - The data...

We examine the effects of presentation and information on the take-up of financial subsidies for retirement saving in a large randomized experiment carried out with H&R Block. The subsidies raise take-up and contributions with larger effects when the subsidy is characterized as a matching...

Après prise en compte des opérations d’intermédiation, le patrimoine financier des ménages apparaît plus fortement investi en titres de dette publique et davantage diversifié au plan géographique que dans sa structure initiale.

Entre 1997 et 2003, le patrimoine des ménages a crû beaucoup plus rapidement que leur revenu du fait de la revalorisation des actifs immobiliers et leur épargne financière s’est davantage orientée vers des placements à risque.

Our survey found that the Hungarian public considers bank cards to be the most secure electronic payment instrument. The positive perception of the bank card ranks immediately behind the perceived security of traditional payment instruments: the yellow cheque and cash. Nevertheless, one of the...

Important changes have occurred in unsecured credit markets over the past three decades. Most prominently, there have been large increases in aggregate consumer debt, the personal bankruptcy rate, the size of bankruptcies, the dispersion of interest rates paid by borrowers, and the relative...

We estimate how spending in Texas responded to a 1997 constitutional amendment that relaxed severe restrictions on home equity lending. We use this event as a natural experiment to estimate the importance of credit constraints. If households are credit-constrained, such an increase in credit...

This paper evaluates the short- and longer term impact of Thailand's "Million Baht Village Fund" program, among the largest scale government microfinance iniatives in the world, using pre- and post-program panel data and quasi-experimental cross-village variation in credit per household. We find...

We provide evidence of households’ stock market trading in response to clearly identifiable positive cash flow shocks: dividend payments and tender offer proceeds. Transaction cost motives appear important, and there is some support for rational portfolio rebalancing and life cycle...