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Inappropriate sales in the financial services industry: the limits of the rational calculus?

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  • David Leece

    (Department of Management, University of Keele, Staffordshire, UK)

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The paper explores the notion of 'misselling' in the context of financial services. 'Misselling' is treated as a special case of error in the classification of a discrete dependent variable. A simulation study is conducted using the sale of mortgage debt to outright owners of property as an example of how inappropriate sales manifest themselves. This is followed by the actual case of endowment mortgage sales. The results and discussion suggests that 'misselling' can be viewed (i) in the context of empirical regularities and a rationalizable view of the data and|or (ii) as a non rationalizable situation where the 'misselling' becomes 'pathological'. The paper highlights the need for a behavioural perspective, in addition to a more conventional economic treatment of the 'misselling' phenomenon. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • David Leece, 2000. "Inappropriate sales in the financial services industry: the limits of the rational calculus?," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 21(3-4), pages 133-144.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:mgtdec:v:21:y:2000:i:3-4:p:133-144
    DOI: 10.1002/mde.978
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    1. Chul Choi, 2024. "The Microstructure of Mis-Selling: Financial Investment Markets and Regulation in Korea," Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Richtmann Publishing Ltd, vol. 13, January.

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