Leave home without it? The effects of credit card debt and available credit on spending

Journal of Marketing Research

Volumn 48, Issue SPEC. ISSUE, 2011, Pages

  Wilcox, Keith ^a   Block, Lauren G ^b   Eisenstein, Eric M ^c  

^a BABSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Credit cards; Debt; Goals; Self control; Spending

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955245369     PISSN: 00222437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1509/jmkr.48.SPL.S78     Document Type: Article

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