Consumer search behavior in the changing credit card market

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 345-353

  Kerr, Sougata ^a   Dunn, Lucia ^b  

^a JP Morgan Chase   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Revolving credit; Search costs; Switch costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949101338     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/073500107000000133     Document Type: Article

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