Credit Card Debt Puzzle: Liquid Assets to Pay Bills
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DOI: 10.29338/wp2022-09
Note: Jose Fillat and Joe Peek provided helpful comments, and Ruth Cohen provided excellent research assistance. The views expressed here are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta or the Federal Reserve System. Any remaining errors are the authors' responsibility. Please address questions regarding content to Claire Greene, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, or Joanna Stavins, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
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- Claire Greene & Joanna Stavins, 2022. "Credit Card Debt Puzzle: Liquid Assets to Pay Bills," Working Papers 22-8, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
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Keywords
credit card debt; liquid assets; consumer payments;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
- E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BAN-2022-10-24 (Banking)
- NEP-PAY-2022-10-24 (Payment Systems and Financial Technology)
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