Returns to information search: Consumer credit card shopping decisions

Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 24-35

  Lee, Jinkook ^a   Hogarth, Jeanne M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Credit cards; Decision making; Information search; Survey of consumer finances

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012039041     PISSN: 10523073     EISSN: 19477910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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