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The authors analyze the data of credit card holding and usage in Mexico, through a sample selection model. They find … México mediante un modelo de selección de muestra. Encontran que aspectos del hogar como el ingreso, escolaridad del jefe del … sugiere que en México el uso de tarjetas de crédito se promover …
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We study the bancarization of marginal borrowers using credit cards and document that this process is difficult: default risk is substantial, returns heterogeneous, and account closings common. We also take advantage of a randomized control trial that varied interest rates and minimum payments...
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representative sample of consumers with two homogeneous cards in Mexico. We find that relative prices are a very weak predictor of …
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Consumer protection in financial markets in the form of information disclosure is high on governments agendas, despite the fact that the empirical evidence on its effectiveness is scarce. To measure the impact of Truth-in-Lending-Act-type disclosures on default and indebtedness, as well as of...
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We study an at-scale natural experiment in which debit cards are given to cash transfer recipients who already have a bank account. Using administrative account data and household surveys, we find that beneficiaries accumulate a savings stock equal to 2 percent of annual income after two years...
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attempting to measure their impact. This study uses a large experiment on more than 100,000 credit card clients in Mexico. The …
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regulatory change to credit card minimum payments in Mexico, we find that a one percentage point change in minimum payments leads …
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