STICKING TO YOUR PLAN: HYPERBOLIC DISCOUNTING AND CREDIT CARD DEBT PAYDOWN theresa Kuchler, of new york University’s Stern School of Business, reported on an empirical study of individuals’ success in carrying out plans to reduce their credit card balances. Broadly, Kuchler had two objectives. Her first objective was to find evidence for present-biased behavior, in which consumers make plans to...

Cashless transactions such as online transactions, credit card transactions, and mobile wallet are becoming more and more popular in financial transactions nowadays. With increased number of such cashless transaction, fraudulent transactions are also increasing. Fraud can be detected by analyzing spending behavior of customers (users) from previous transaction data. If any deviation is noticed ...

Using the industrial economics approach to the microeconomics of banking we analyze a large bank under credit risk. Our aim is to study how a risky loan portfolio affects optimal bank behavior in the loan and deposit markets, when credit derivatives to hedge credit risk are available. We examine hedging without and with basis risk. In the absence of basis risk the usual separation result is con...

We study the behavior of credit and output across a financial crisis cycle using information from credit spreads. We show the transition into a crisis occurs with a large increase in credit spreads, indicating that crises involve a dramatic shift in expectations and are a surprise. The severity of the subsequent crisis can be forecast by the size of credit losses (change in spreads) coupled wit...

A. The Nature of the Study This study attempts to assess the impact that restrictions on legal rate ceilings and restrictions on creditors’ abilities to collect on delinquent or defaulted debts (i.e., "creditors’ remedies") have on the consumer credit markets. The methodology employed is to study intensively the behavior of creditors in selected local consumer credit markets. The consumer credi...

In India, the credit card usage as well as the penetration has been found to be very low compared to that of debit cards. Though banks offer the best of the services, still there are apprehensions about the risks involved in using a credit card in India. Hence, this study investigates the customer’s adoption behavior of credit cards and determines the factors which influence the acceptance amon...

A thorough understanding of the joint default behavior of credit-risky securities is essential for credit risk measurement as well as the valuation of multi-name credit derivatives and Collateralized Debt Obligations. In this paper we study a simple and tractable intensity-based model for correlated defaults, in which unpredictable default arrival times are jointly exponentially distributed. Si...

In this paper we consider a multi-item distribution channel subject to supplier’s credit period and retailer’s promotional effort with sales learning curve. We determine the retailer’s promotional effort for each item and the joint replenishment cycle in both decentralized and centralized decision models. We show that the profits for both parties increase under the centralized decision model wh...

A thorough understanding of the joint default behavior of credit-risky securities is essential for credit risk measurement as well as the valuation of multi-name credit derivatives and Collateralized Debt Obligations. In this paper we study a simple and tractable intensity-based model for correlated defaults, in which unpredictable default arrival times are jointly exponentially distributed. Si...

Under a given tradable credit scheme, travelers’ loss aversion behavior for credit charging during the route choice process is studied. A disutility function of loss aversion is applied to approach travelers’ different attitudes towards credit loss and gain, and the transaction costs of buying and selling credits are also incorporated in the function. The user equilibrium (UE) and market equili...