Shopping without pain: Compulsive buying and the effects of credit card availability in Europe and the Far East

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-92

  Lo, Hui Yi ^a,b   Harvey, Nigel ^b  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compulsive buying; Credit card usage

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651435542     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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