Modeling credit card borrowing: A comparison of type I and type II tobit approaches

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 128-143

  Min, Insik ^a   Kim, Jong Ho ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0042744870     PISSN: 00384038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1061635     Document Type: Article

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