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doi: 10.2139/ssrn.1002288
handle: 10230/1249
Most US credit card holders revolve high-interest debt, often combined with substantial (i) asset accumulation by retirement, and (ii) low-rate liquid assets. Hyperbolic discounting can resolve only the former puzzle (Laibson et al., 2003). Bertaut and Haliassos (2002) proposed an 'accountant-shopper'framework for the latter. The current paper builds, solves, and simulates a fully-specified accountant-shopper model, to show that this framework can actually generate both types of co-existence, as well as target credit card utilization rates consistent with Gross and Souleles (2002). The benchmark model is compared to setups without self-control problems, with alternative mechanisms, and with impatient but fully rational shoppers.
instrumental variables, financial development, Economics, capital market frictions, Income inequality, financial development, capital market frictions, investor protection, instrumental variables, dynamic panel data, investor protection, Income inequality; financial development; capital market frictions; investor protection; instrumental variables; dynamic panel data, Macroeconomics and International Economics, dynamic panel data, Nationalekonomi, income inequality, jel: jel:G30, jel: jel:E44, jel: jel:D31, jel: jel:O16, jel: jel:O15
instrumental variables, financial development, Economics, capital market frictions, Income inequality, financial development, capital market frictions, investor protection, instrumental variables, dynamic panel data, investor protection, Income inequality; financial development; capital market frictions; investor protection; instrumental variables; dynamic panel data, Macroeconomics and International Economics, dynamic panel data, Nationalekonomi, income inequality, jel: jel:G30, jel: jel:E44, jel: jel:D31, jel: jel:O16, jel: jel:O15
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