Consumer credit risk characteristics: Understanding income and expense differentials

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 20-37

  Arslan, Özgür ^a   Karan, Mehmet Baha ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Consumer credit; Credit risks; Logistic regressions; Turkish households

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950608116     PISSN: 1540496X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/REE1540-496X460202     Document Type: Article

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