The role of time preference and credit card usage in compulsive buying behaviour

International Journal of Consumer Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 269-275

  Norum, Pamela S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Compulsive buying; Credit card usage; Generation Y; Rate of time preference

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951234233     PISSN: 14706423     EISSN: 14706431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1470-6431.2008.00678.x     Document Type: Article

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