Experience, prediction and recollection of loan burden

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 446-454

  Hoelzl, Erik ^a   Pollai, Maria ^a   Kamleitner, Bernadette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Financial strain; Loans; Memory; Mental accounting; Prediction errors

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349094624     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2008.11.001     Document Type: Article

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