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Credit cards and commercial insurance participation: Evidence from urban households in China

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  • Nana Xu
  • Zhao Rong
  • Li Yu

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The diffusion of credit cards may have relaxed households' liquidity constraints, thereby stimulating the diffusion of commercial insurance. By investigating Chinese urban households who had no commercial insurance in 2013, we find that their initial access to credit cards significantly increased the likelihood of their holding commercial insurance in 2015. Our instrumental variable (IV) estimations confirm the causality. This positive effect is more pronounced among more liquidity‐constrained households and among households with more financial knowledge. Last, the initial access to credit cards also significantly enhanced commercial insurance renewal in 2015 among those households who had commercial insurance in 2013.

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  • Nana Xu & Zhao Rong & Li Yu, 2024. "Credit cards and commercial insurance participation: Evidence from urban households in China," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 64(1), pages 1159-1182, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:acctfi:v:64:y:2024:i:1:p:1159-1182
    DOI: 10.1111/acfi.13176
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