Understanding and knowledge of credit cost and duration: Effects on credit judgements and decisions

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 609-620

  McHugh, Sandie ^a   Ranyard, Rob ^a   Lewis, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Annual percentage rate; Consumer credit; Decision heuristics; Decision making; Mental accounting; Total cost

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961169540     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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