Spending and credit use in the private household

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 519-532

  Kirchler, Erich ^a   Hoelzl, Erik ^a   Kamleitner, Bernadette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Consumer decision making; Credit use; Household decisions; Mental accounting; Utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 44249109274     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2006.12.038     Document Type: Article

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