How Do Americans Repay Their Debt? The Balance-Matching Heuristic
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- John Gathergood & Neale Mahoney & Neil Stewart & Jörg Weber, 2019. "How do Americans repay their debt? The balance-matching heuristic," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 39(2), pages 1458-1466.
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JEL classification:
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
- G02 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Behavioral Finance: Underlying Principles
- G20 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - General
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