Forecasting consumer credit card adoption: What can we learn about the utility function?

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-85

  Qi, Min ^a   Yang, Sha ^b,c  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Credit card adoption; Forecasting; Marginal rate of substitution; Neural networks; Utility function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037248030     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2070(01)00118-2     Document Type: Article

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