Credit card holders, convenience users and revolvers: a Tobit model with binary selection and ordinal treatment



Título del documento: Credit card holders, convenience users and revolvers: a Tobit model with binary selection and ordinal treatment
Revista: Journal of applied economics
Base de datos: CLASE
Número de sistema: 000423815
ISSN: 1667-6726
Autors: 1
2
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Institucions: 1University Sains Malaysia, School of Social Sciences, Penang. Malasia
2University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee. Estados Unidos de América
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Període: Nov
Volum: 14
Número: 2
Paginació: 225-255
País: Argentina
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Aplicado
Resumen en inglés This paper studies the characteristics of credit card holders in Malaysia and distinguishes between convenience users and revolvers. A Tobit model with binary selection and ordinal treatment is developed to accommodate the data feature that debts are incurred only among card holders and the endogeneity of card holding in card debt. Results from a stratified sample in Malaysia indicate that age, household size, income, education, loan commitments, and current-account ownership play a role in card holding. Age, loan commitments, previous card holdings, current-account ownership, and bad debt history affect the probability and level of card debt. Multi-card holders are more likely to be credit revolvers than convenience users
Disciplines Economía
Paraules clau: Inversiones,
Economía monetaria,
Econometría,
Tarjetas de crédito,
Modelo Tobit,
Malasia
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