Using financial innovation to support savers: From coercion to excitement

Insufficient Funds: Savings, Assets, Credit, and Banking Among Low-Income Households

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 149-190

  Tufano, Peter ^a   Schneider, Daniel ^b  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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