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Rational Exuberance at the Mall: Addiction to Carrying a Credit Card Balance

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Kaili Shen
David E. Giles () (Department of Economics, University of Victoria)

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We test the Becker-Murphy model of rational addiction with New Zealand credit card debt data. Our results clearly favour the rational addiction model over the myopic, backward-looking model. The estimated short-run and long-run price elasticities are -0.58 and -2.32 respectively, and the estimated rate of time-preference is 6.7% per quarter.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, University of Victoria in its series Econometrics Working Papers with number 0508.

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Date of creation: 21 Jun 2005
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Keywords: Rational addiction; credit card debt;

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I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Production

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